"Be Strong and Courageous, All Who Place Your Faith and Your Hope in Spirit..."
(Psalm 31:24 N.A.T.)
There is much to be cheered about right now, and at the same time, there is also a lot that we are collectively afraid of. I have no place to talk. There are things - big things - that are ahead of me, and while this next thing I have to do scares the hell out of me, it still needs to be done, and it is at this time as well that I daily pray that I will have courage that nothing will happen and that the fears which I have allowed to remain as the monsters which live in the closet of my mind are very real to me, the only thing left for me to do is this one thing. If it were not meant to happen, I would not be compelled to make it so.
There is a lot of fear right now in the world, and with good cause - there is also a lot of change going on, and we humans tend to bristle from things that take us away from our normal thought pattern. Our normal thought patterns will not allow us to not be afraid because that is the way that we have been taught - to be cautious, sometimes overly so, to be mindful of others, sometimes to the point of our own detriment, to be giving, sometimes to the point it hurts us on more than only one level, and to sacrifice who we are for the sake of someone else's comfort. For many years we have been very good to other people and very "other than good" to ourselves. We have taken lightly the things that marred us, that scarred us and made us hurt, and while we learned a whole lot about other people, the one person who we didn't think about all that time was ourselves.
We are so trained to be good to EVERYONE, and only now are we choosing to be choosy. I will admit to being very picky about a whole lot of things, but the one thing that I am very, very picky about is who I care to share my time with, and these days that list is getting to be very defined, very ...pure...and it is because I can no longer be in the company of people who willingly will insult my Soul by insulting my intelligence and therefor insulting me. And when that happens, there is no one's shoulders to place the weight of this burden upon other than my very own. I have spent too long already being good to people who have not been as good to me as I have been to them. It didn't take this long to figure it out. I took this long to not be scared to do something about it, to be brave in the face of uncertainty - which, if you know me well enough, then you know that I am not afraid of a lot, but that the things that I do fear I fear with a vengeance.
Fear, with a vengeance
NO ONE knows the future. While we can pretty much gauge how things might go based on what has happened in the cyclical circle called Life, there are other factors involved in overcoming fear than just the things that we know we do not like. I know that there are things that have happened that have prompted this decision, and there are words that cannot ever be unsaid and those same words are the very ones that I cannot un-hear, and I can take it all as a slam to my character (again) or I can do like my guides, through other human beings, have told me, and stop being such a pansy about things, grab up my Shield and my Sword, look at the hill I have to conquer and realize that this is the last battle, that this is the last time that I ever have to look at that mountain, weaponry at the ready, and that I only have to climb over the hill and use the proverbial sword and shield if needed.
This is the thing about fear, that while it is a needed thing and a thing that keeps us safe from the things that hurt us, it can also be addictive, can also be the very thing that cripples us even as it motivate us. We have nothing to fear, really, other than what might happen, and what might happen is irrelevant to what I know will happen - and what will happen is that for the first time in a long time, I will be able to feel my Spirit breathe again. Our lives serve us up with exactly what we need when we need it. At this time Spirit has been sending messages and messengers, all with the same message and more and more the importance level of each message becomes more and more intense, meaning that this is something that I can no longer ignore, and there are a lot of good reasons, with the most important reason being my very Self.
Be unafraid of the things that scare the hell outta you. Be courageous in the face, not only of fear, but also of the things that you do not know will happen. We have got to stop fearing what we do not know might happen, and be more encouraged to do what we know will ultimately change our own lives.
At the moment it is very much "out with the old, and in with the new, right and correct..."
...time to polish the weaponry, don't you think?...
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
Monday, December 17, 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
Thursday, December 13, 2012
'Tis the Season - The Gift of The Wise Ones
There is nothing like being in the company of The Wise Ones
We never can tell who it is in our lives who will be the bringers of Wisdom. For many years I had pondered the idea that somehow, my Auntie Kalei was teaching me the ways of the 'Aumakua, and through the written teachings of Lynn V. Andrews and her experiences with the Elders, and through my own bloodline who I have come to the conclusion that we can call ourselves at some point in our Spiritual Path to Wisdom, the Wise Ones.
We choose our teachers, and we do not realize that we are choosing them when we do. Some of us know that who is part of our grander awareness and actively and in any measure a part of our lives at this time are also those who have come to us with many lessons to teach us, with much Aloha to impart to us, and most of all, with much Wisdom, not to give to us and neither teach us about only, but more, to remind us of our place in this lifetime.
The Wisdom Keepers
I say much of the 'Aumakua, of the Elders among us, and with good cause. Without the Gift of the Wise Ones, we are walking through this lifetime choosing to be blinded by the things that block our sight from the ugliness that scares us but also is that same ugliness that teaches us what we need to know. Without the Wise Ones in our midst, we do not know that what we are seeing and what we are experiencing is meant as the Gift which all of humankind has been given
It is a sad thing that most of us fear our Power, fear what others will think of us should we allow them to know that this is our reality, that we follow what the Elders and the 'Aumakua teach us. The Wisdom Keepers - those to whom I refer as "The Wise Ones" - are a gift to us all, for it is within their Knowing of things not of the world in which we each walk, but rather in both worlds, where the gifts which keep on giving to us are contained. It is within the Soul and the leanings of the Wise Ones among us to suffer learning through pain, so that we may live to tell others that there is an end to our suffering, that there is something of value in the losses of those things which we have been so very inclined, through the pandering to the Soul within us collectively that we chose to look past the gifts of material worth to the very gifts which we are meant to cultivate which are the real gifts. The real gifts for us all are already within us. We just need to learn to trust our very selves, trust in the idea that who we are is very much tied to that one thing about us that the world sees as our game face, and no, I am not referring to your Rising Sign!
It is the Wise Ones among us who teach us that the loss of what we thought was Love was actually there to teach us what is not Love. It is the Wise Ones among us who, without our realizing so, are meant to bring to us the greater understanding of who we are through who we know, and more, who we are no longer through who we know is no longer of good service to us, to our Path, to our Life. It is the Wise Ones among us who, through their own Soul, gift us with the thoughts and the inclinations of the Angels, and it is the Wise Ones among us who give to us the needed support of Soul, of Heart and of Truth and who also will not allow us to see only the bad in any situation. It is the duty of those of us who have been given the task as Wisdom Keepers to give to the rest of the world of Souls some peace of mind about a thing, give others Love and to teach others through our actions what it is that they must learn. Some it is Love, others it is Strength, but all the way around, it is the Knowing that not one of us is alone in our trek on the Path, that none of us is here without a reason for being here, and that not one of us is without the guidance we each need.
You will know when you are in the company of The Wise Ones. Their power will be apparent, but will be gentle like the breeze flowing over the Pacific Ocean at sunset. The Wise Ones will only exude Love, will not intimidate nor try to control you, for it is our only thought that what you learn in our presence is what you need to learn. It is our wish of Aloha for those who seek our guidance that they learn from us how to be that which you were meant to be, even if what you wanted to be is not anywhere near what you are meant as. I never though for a moment as I was growing up that what I would use my writing abilities for, what I would use my ability to see from a different perspective, my ability to "put myself" into the Soul and the heart of another for purposes of Knowing the Truth of them, and my ability which is inherent in all Human beings to give to others the measure of Divine Spiritual Power through the Energy that is Alo'ha. It is more than I thought it would be, the use to which I put my abilities, both physical and Spiritual, but it is the Gift which was given by my Ancestors to me, and is the gift which, through pain and suffering, that I have been able to emerge from each battle victorious and with a brighter Light of Alo'ha to share with the world, to share with my own World, and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I found out what I could do with what I already knew it was like being reborn into a new type of Knowing that is Wisdom in all its beauty and well-earned glory.
We are the very gatekeepers to the Eternal Flame, are the very Ones who are meant to bring to the world the gift that we have of Love, of the All That Is. We come to you in the manner we do which is peaceful. We come to you with the gift that is Unconditional Love, of human beings and our penchant toward folly, and of the Soul Tribe which each of us has our very own of. We are sent here to this lifetime to gift to the rest of the world, through our unique talents and gifts of the Soul, there very needed energies of the times, no matter what the need, and no matter how long the lesson. We are sent to each other so as to teach. We are all Strong, Wise and Powerful in our own right. We are here in service to one another. We are the Gift of the Soul which I speak, each and every one of us. We are here to give of ourselves to one another, and it is through the teachings and offerings of the Wise Ones that we are given the Knowledge which one day becomes our own Wisdom.
If you are aware of your own Soul, then, too, you will also know that the Wise Ones who you are blessed in your life with are the very people who you called upon, so see them as the Gift of Spirit straight from Akua above. See them as what they are in your life, and know that it is their very truest hearts desire to Know You, to Love You in the best manner that we can, for it is our very gift of Sight, of Knowing, of the Connection You have always had to the Divine within, and it is that very same energy which will connect you to all that is Divine.
Trust in the gifts brought to you by and through you because of the Wisdom of the Ages which were presented to you in the manner which they were because that is exactly the way you would understand the lesson. Do not fear what it is that you are asked to grow out of, and embrace the things that you worry about, the things that you feel like you have no answer to, because sometimes it is the silence which we need in order to see a thing through, and sometimes it is literally on the very wings of Angels which your answers, your comfort and your Life is delivered to you. Wisdom is given to us in dreams, in messages which come through synchronicities, in the lyrics contained in a song not heard in many years. Our answers come to us in the form we can understand, through people who are chosen by us with the help of our Guides to make the strange leanings of the messages at hand seem not so strange, that makes change seem not so impossible.
We are blessed to be surrounded by Wise Ones, by Prophets and Modern Day Saints, by Seers and those who can be seen as "The Tall Ones Who See" , and it is not the physical stature which can be called "Tall," but rather and only the stature which is that of our very Souls.
We can see better, easier, through to the breaking light of day, even in the middle of the storms of our lives. And what makes it easier for us is just knowing that somewhere in our own lives there are such people who are there at the drop of a hat, who are there to explain to us the plain truth, even when we do not want to hear the truth - it is the Wise Ones who are dear enough to make us know that what we seek is not the match to the Divine within us, and though we want to see things one way, want to have things our way, want to believe that if we go backward to try to garner our comfort, that in doing so we are doing like the biblical dog who returns to his own vomit. The Wise Ones remind us of where we have been and why it is that we never have to return to those places in us that are darkness because those places have been healed with the Light of the Truth, and because we are healed by our own Light, we are made Wise by it as well.
Trust the Light within You. Follow the Guidance of the Aumakua, and learn to trust those people in our lives who we are drawn to the most, for they are the very Wise Ones of which I write....
Embrace your own living 'Aumakua...Wise Ones exist to be in service to all of humankind...yes, including and especially you !!
Me Ke Aloha Pumehana...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
We never can tell who it is in our lives who will be the bringers of Wisdom. For many years I had pondered the idea that somehow, my Auntie Kalei was teaching me the ways of the 'Aumakua, and through the written teachings of Lynn V. Andrews and her experiences with the Elders, and through my own bloodline who I have come to the conclusion that we can call ourselves at some point in our Spiritual Path to Wisdom, the Wise Ones.
We choose our teachers, and we do not realize that we are choosing them when we do. Some of us know that who is part of our grander awareness and actively and in any measure a part of our lives at this time are also those who have come to us with many lessons to teach us, with much Aloha to impart to us, and most of all, with much Wisdom, not to give to us and neither teach us about only, but more, to remind us of our place in this lifetime.
The Wisdom Keepers
I say much of the 'Aumakua, of the Elders among us, and with good cause. Without the Gift of the Wise Ones, we are walking through this lifetime choosing to be blinded by the things that block our sight from the ugliness that scares us but also is that same ugliness that teaches us what we need to know. Without the Wise Ones in our midst, we do not know that what we are seeing and what we are experiencing is meant as the Gift which all of humankind has been given
It is a sad thing that most of us fear our Power, fear what others will think of us should we allow them to know that this is our reality, that we follow what the Elders and the 'Aumakua teach us. The Wisdom Keepers - those to whom I refer as "The Wise Ones" - are a gift to us all, for it is within their Knowing of things not of the world in which we each walk, but rather in both worlds, where the gifts which keep on giving to us are contained. It is within the Soul and the leanings of the Wise Ones among us to suffer learning through pain, so that we may live to tell others that there is an end to our suffering, that there is something of value in the losses of those things which we have been so very inclined, through the pandering to the Soul within us collectively that we chose to look past the gifts of material worth to the very gifts which we are meant to cultivate which are the real gifts. The real gifts for us all are already within us. We just need to learn to trust our very selves, trust in the idea that who we are is very much tied to that one thing about us that the world sees as our game face, and no, I am not referring to your Rising Sign!
It is the Wise Ones among us who teach us that the loss of what we thought was Love was actually there to teach us what is not Love. It is the Wise Ones among us who, without our realizing so, are meant to bring to us the greater understanding of who we are through who we know, and more, who we are no longer through who we know is no longer of good service to us, to our Path, to our Life. It is the Wise Ones among us who, through their own Soul, gift us with the thoughts and the inclinations of the Angels, and it is the Wise Ones among us who give to us the needed support of Soul, of Heart and of Truth and who also will not allow us to see only the bad in any situation. It is the duty of those of us who have been given the task as Wisdom Keepers to give to the rest of the world of Souls some peace of mind about a thing, give others Love and to teach others through our actions what it is that they must learn. Some it is Love, others it is Strength, but all the way around, it is the Knowing that not one of us is alone in our trek on the Path, that none of us is here without a reason for being here, and that not one of us is without the guidance we each need.
You will know when you are in the company of The Wise Ones. Their power will be apparent, but will be gentle like the breeze flowing over the Pacific Ocean at sunset. The Wise Ones will only exude Love, will not intimidate nor try to control you, for it is our only thought that what you learn in our presence is what you need to learn. It is our wish of Aloha for those who seek our guidance that they learn from us how to be that which you were meant to be, even if what you wanted to be is not anywhere near what you are meant as. I never though for a moment as I was growing up that what I would use my writing abilities for, what I would use my ability to see from a different perspective, my ability to "put myself" into the Soul and the heart of another for purposes of Knowing the Truth of them, and my ability which is inherent in all Human beings to give to others the measure of Divine Spiritual Power through the Energy that is Alo'ha. It is more than I thought it would be, the use to which I put my abilities, both physical and Spiritual, but it is the Gift which was given by my Ancestors to me, and is the gift which, through pain and suffering, that I have been able to emerge from each battle victorious and with a brighter Light of Alo'ha to share with the world, to share with my own World, and I wouldn't have it any other way. When I found out what I could do with what I already knew it was like being reborn into a new type of Knowing that is Wisdom in all its beauty and well-earned glory.
We are the very gatekeepers to the Eternal Flame, are the very Ones who are meant to bring to the world the gift that we have of Love, of the All That Is. We come to you in the manner we do which is peaceful. We come to you with the gift that is Unconditional Love, of human beings and our penchant toward folly, and of the Soul Tribe which each of us has our very own of. We are sent here to this lifetime to gift to the rest of the world, through our unique talents and gifts of the Soul, there very needed energies of the times, no matter what the need, and no matter how long the lesson. We are sent to each other so as to teach. We are all Strong, Wise and Powerful in our own right. We are here in service to one another. We are the Gift of the Soul which I speak, each and every one of us. We are here to give of ourselves to one another, and it is through the teachings and offerings of the Wise Ones that we are given the Knowledge which one day becomes our own Wisdom.
If you are aware of your own Soul, then, too, you will also know that the Wise Ones who you are blessed in your life with are the very people who you called upon, so see them as the Gift of Spirit straight from Akua above. See them as what they are in your life, and know that it is their very truest hearts desire to Know You, to Love You in the best manner that we can, for it is our very gift of Sight, of Knowing, of the Connection You have always had to the Divine within, and it is that very same energy which will connect you to all that is Divine.
Trust in the gifts brought to you by and through you because of the Wisdom of the Ages which were presented to you in the manner which they were because that is exactly the way you would understand the lesson. Do not fear what it is that you are asked to grow out of, and embrace the things that you worry about, the things that you feel like you have no answer to, because sometimes it is the silence which we need in order to see a thing through, and sometimes it is literally on the very wings of Angels which your answers, your comfort and your Life is delivered to you. Wisdom is given to us in dreams, in messages which come through synchronicities, in the lyrics contained in a song not heard in many years. Our answers come to us in the form we can understand, through people who are chosen by us with the help of our Guides to make the strange leanings of the messages at hand seem not so strange, that makes change seem not so impossible.
We are blessed to be surrounded by Wise Ones, by Prophets and Modern Day Saints, by Seers and those who can be seen as "The Tall Ones Who See" , and it is not the physical stature which can be called "Tall," but rather and only the stature which is that of our very Souls.
We can see better, easier, through to the breaking light of day, even in the middle of the storms of our lives. And what makes it easier for us is just knowing that somewhere in our own lives there are such people who are there at the drop of a hat, who are there to explain to us the plain truth, even when we do not want to hear the truth - it is the Wise Ones who are dear enough to make us know that what we seek is not the match to the Divine within us, and though we want to see things one way, want to have things our way, want to believe that if we go backward to try to garner our comfort, that in doing so we are doing like the biblical dog who returns to his own vomit. The Wise Ones remind us of where we have been and why it is that we never have to return to those places in us that are darkness because those places have been healed with the Light of the Truth, and because we are healed by our own Light, we are made Wise by it as well.
Trust the Light within You. Follow the Guidance of the Aumakua, and learn to trust those people in our lives who we are drawn to the most, for they are the very Wise Ones of which I write....
Embrace your own living 'Aumakua...Wise Ones exist to be in service to all of humankind...yes, including and especially you !!
Me Ke Aloha Pumehana...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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Tuesday, December 11, 2012
'Tis the Season: The Gift, Part Two (Yep...long)
"Signs! Signs! Everywhere, Signs!"
(Originally composed by 5 Man Accoustical Band and Performed by Tesla)
Here it is..the 2nd half of the message, as was "delivered" to me an hour or so ago...
We are being given signs, folks, and everyday those things and thoughts and such that you have that tell you that you should do this or that, that guide you out of danger that cannot be seen right now, those things are the very things and stuff and energy that this, the opening of a brand new era on Earth, requires of us.
There are a few of you reading this who will say out loud after reading that first paragraph that there really is not anything that we truly "have to" do, but at the same time if we are not willing to give a little more of who we are to lend to the entirety of the Whole of Humankind, we can be guaranteed that that which we hold collectively and dearly as the Wishes of the Collective Soul will not materialize for us all. This is not my rule. This is the rule of the Law of Attraction, which tells us that most of all, the things that we want and desire and hold in our Souls are in manifest the moment that we have a clear thought about them, have a pureness of intention when the thought first is created, and are without the energy of our being in competition with anyone else. When we are desirous of a thing and we are ready to receive it - and make no mistake ! We are all being made ready to receive a LOT...a WHOLE LOT - this is when we are meant to have what we desire the most. Nothing good comes from a Soul which is beckoned by the darkness other than the ability to see Light and to feel the penetration caused by that darkness.
We must, at this point in time, be willing to release the darkness, the fear, and the negative intentions set forth by those fears. We must relinquish the thought that we have to drop the illusion of trying to best another and of being better than other people and realize that we have already manifested the proof of our having done well thus far. While many do not want to think that this is all there is, many more are in this energetic pull of "maybe," and right now what we need is not a maybe but an absolute.
By this it is meant that our absoluteness must be true, deep and fluid. We must be more inclined to Be, In Love, more now than ever, and yes, Life depends on the mass infusion of Love Energy from all of us, all the time, and all at one time, and it is the evidence around us that prompts this pleading, prompts this begging for your Kokua, asking that we all include ourselves, not only in our thinking about others, but also for our very selves.
We are at a point in our Spiritual One-Ness that we HAVE TO be able, sooner than we care to, sooner than we think we need to, and as soon as two weeks ago, give, of ourselves, or else we surely will be met with the same things, people, situations, everything, that we have evolved to to this very point in our storied human history.
We must extend of our Spirits, and we must be true to our own selves as well as we remain true to the intentions which we are setting into motion for manifestation. Without purity of thought, heart and soul, none of what we desire to have in our lives will be in completion, to the extent which it is meant as being. We are each singularly as well as collectively the example of the existence of a Grand Creator, of an energy which is imbued with Love, with Soul, with the very things we each all need and desire and have, collectively, requested. We want what we want, but we want it without our having to give up who we think we are for who we really are, and who we really are is a whole, whole lot. We cannot know this if we are not willing to shed the old truths for the creation of the new truth within us that is waiting to Be, is waiting to be Known and Utilized. You Are Waiting To Be, but what you do not know, are not aware of, cannot possibly fathom, is that you already Know You, but you have been denying yourself the ultimate in Spiritual Partners - Your very self.
It is time that we all chose to include ourselves in prayer, with one another, alone with our selves, with our animals, with the Creator, with our Guides, our Angels, our Soul Tribes - we must remember our origins, remember that we were never meant to be "at each other," but only at each others' service. We have come to a point where we know what is plenty, are living through what we see as "lean," we know heartache, loss, anger and resentment, and right now is the time that we must release it all. We must allow our Souls to release the toxicity of the past, and we must understand that that which no longer serves us is also that which is no longer of use to our Path. We must release the old to make way for the new, and we must gladly allow ourselves to allow God to fill the void which is left by the absence of the things which insult our souls, and we must ...MUST do this on the level of the collective, because as it stands, there are many of us who are already ahead of the idea that we need to clear out, ponder, wonder what it is that we think is the reason that we are hanging on to the things which hurt us the most.
When you pray, be fervent, be true, and again, Be, In Love. Know now that you are the very Highest Representation of the All That Is, that yours is the face of God, as is your Brother's. Yours is the Soul of the Cosmos, as is your Brother's. Yours is the heartbeat of the Universe, as, too, is your Brother's. We must take care to the Malama'aina, to care for the Land, and in this instance the Land is two fold - it is our Mother, Gaia, and it is us, collectively, singly, and we must be more inclined to remain as gentle souls, here in service to others, no matter who and no matter for what reason - we must return to our own gentleness, and we must be able to impart this gentleness on the Whole of Mankind. We are who permeate one another with the beauty that is Love, that is Life, that is the Alo'ha within us all - we are the Breath of Life, the part of one another which is us, in Wholeness and totally absolutely not with the thought that somehow we need to be better than someone else, that we need to give others a reason to mistrust us through our own mistrust for them. We must be willing to see the world, not through the rose colored lenses we have chosen to this part of the Now, but through the Eyes of the Soul.
For many centuries we have passed down through the generations the aches and pains which were evidenced by the Bones of our Very Souls, through our tears and through the gnashing of our own teeth. We have been willing to raise arms against our Brothers, have chosen to be the Soul Murderers of our very Sisterhood globally, and the time has come where we must accept that this is not our Truth. This was never our Truth. Our Truth is within us each and is waiting to be birthed for the beauty and the Promise that it all is, collectively, singly, Universally.
We are being called to the task of becoming the Village which raises the Children in a collective manner. We are the children, Na Mamo, the Chosen and Cherished, and the Village is the world of all the different lands and the oceans which no longer separate us but instead connect us through the representation that is the emotional element of Water, and the world is covered mostly with water, meaning that we need to tap into that emotion collectively and for the very first time in any of our very human lives and stories, we must choose to See each other with Holy Eyes and through the Spirit's sight. We must look past the things that hurt and the past which marred and scarred us. We must bother with the idea that we are so not alone, and we must choose to Live Through only the Thoughts produced by the finest of minds. We must think that we are all that we are, even as we simultaneously are very personally different than one another.
We must choose Love above all else.
And yes, Ohana, it is the most important thing that we can do for each other and more, for ourselves, that we have ever done. We must Love our own selves if we expect anyone else to, and we must learn from the things that could have been seen as an infraction against us, and instead of thinking of that one thing in a negative manner, we must choose to see it as yet one more lesson that we are meant to learn and that we never have to learn ever again if we should so choose to not. Right now we are collectively as One, and it has taken us a long time to get here, and it was a lot of work, tears and loss, but here we are, at the top of the proverbial mountain, and all we have left is the view. Yet many of us cannot see the view because many of us are at the top and do not know we are all here and all together, and many of us are choosing only to look at where we have been and have chosen to judge it. Stop judging it. Stop judging you. You are here for a reason and it is not a hurtful but a healing reason.
You are meant to Be, In Love, and you are meant as a Divine and Holy Beacon, a Light shining in the darkness of your own fears. You are meant as an important piece of this intricate puzzle and knowing we all came into, each with our own lessons, our own Path to walk. We should live joyously in this time, regardless if we are in the mindset of Loss, of heart ache, of things that we do not want to look at. We are here in this time together, and at this time we are meant to be together in thought, in prayer, in harmony with the All That Is. Sadly, there are those among us who doubt that this time in history is real.
I implore those who have doubts to please take this time right now to sense with your body the things that your Soul is telling you, and I begging you all to not turn a deaf ear - the answers are there, are yours, and they are not the ones that you had hoped for, but are the ones that you need the most. Take heed to this message for it is meant as a catalyst into the New Age of Aquarius, where more and more of us will rise to the levels of greatness that we are no where near having the idea that maybe we deserve what we have now, what we see as ours in the future, and no matter what, whether you like it or whether you do not want it, whatever the "it" is, it is right, it is what you need. It is helping you to clear what is no longer useful, is applicable to the person who you were before the Shift within you began to take place. Your Soul will not allow you to go backward, and your Soul will wretch at the idea of doing things for the sake of others if it will also be to your own detriment -physical, emotional, mental, and especially Spiritual. We are fighting with each other, but what we do not realize is that truly, we are being called to be all the Soul Warriors we were born to be, and we are instead fighting our very selves.
Stop making your Soul beg for its Right to Be. Stop telling yourself that you do not deserve what has come to you. Stop being in the energy of denial, for it is not anyone but you who will be denied.
Right now, we must choose to Be, In Love. This is the entirety of this message - to Love with unfiltered energy, to give with much glee, to be open to receiving much of what we give to others. We are being taught through our experiences with other people exactly who we are. We must take heed and bother to learn.
We must be without fear of change. We must know in our heart of hearts and in the very deepest part of our Souls that this time, whatever is happening in our lives is needed. The clearing away of the old for the new is needed. We must release through forgiveness, and we must give Love, show graciousness as well as be Thankful, yes, even for the things that hurt us.
And again, the only thing that we are afraid of is change, because change makes us stretch.
Do not Fear. Fear is a negative vibration. Embrace the Fear and Know that the Truth is there and is Yours.
Know that you are the evidence of Truth in the Universe. Know that you are the Divine Measure brought about by Spirit. Know and Believe that you are as precious and as important as the Sparrows in flight, as God cares for the birds of the air, so surely, too, God must care for you.
Aloha
ROX/MAPU
(Originally composed by 5 Man Accoustical Band and Performed by Tesla)
Here it is..the 2nd half of the message, as was "delivered" to me an hour or so ago...
We are being given signs, folks, and everyday those things and thoughts and such that you have that tell you that you should do this or that, that guide you out of danger that cannot be seen right now, those things are the very things and stuff and energy that this, the opening of a brand new era on Earth, requires of us.
There are a few of you reading this who will say out loud after reading that first paragraph that there really is not anything that we truly "have to" do, but at the same time if we are not willing to give a little more of who we are to lend to the entirety of the Whole of Humankind, we can be guaranteed that that which we hold collectively and dearly as the Wishes of the Collective Soul will not materialize for us all. This is not my rule. This is the rule of the Law of Attraction, which tells us that most of all, the things that we want and desire and hold in our Souls are in manifest the moment that we have a clear thought about them, have a pureness of intention when the thought first is created, and are without the energy of our being in competition with anyone else. When we are desirous of a thing and we are ready to receive it - and make no mistake ! We are all being made ready to receive a LOT...a WHOLE LOT - this is when we are meant to have what we desire the most. Nothing good comes from a Soul which is beckoned by the darkness other than the ability to see Light and to feel the penetration caused by that darkness.
We must, at this point in time, be willing to release the darkness, the fear, and the negative intentions set forth by those fears. We must relinquish the thought that we have to drop the illusion of trying to best another and of being better than other people and realize that we have already manifested the proof of our having done well thus far. While many do not want to think that this is all there is, many more are in this energetic pull of "maybe," and right now what we need is not a maybe but an absolute.
By this it is meant that our absoluteness must be true, deep and fluid. We must be more inclined to Be, In Love, more now than ever, and yes, Life depends on the mass infusion of Love Energy from all of us, all the time, and all at one time, and it is the evidence around us that prompts this pleading, prompts this begging for your Kokua, asking that we all include ourselves, not only in our thinking about others, but also for our very selves.
We are at a point in our Spiritual One-Ness that we HAVE TO be able, sooner than we care to, sooner than we think we need to, and as soon as two weeks ago, give, of ourselves, or else we surely will be met with the same things, people, situations, everything, that we have evolved to to this very point in our storied human history.
We must extend of our Spirits, and we must be true to our own selves as well as we remain true to the intentions which we are setting into motion for manifestation. Without purity of thought, heart and soul, none of what we desire to have in our lives will be in completion, to the extent which it is meant as being. We are each singularly as well as collectively the example of the existence of a Grand Creator, of an energy which is imbued with Love, with Soul, with the very things we each all need and desire and have, collectively, requested. We want what we want, but we want it without our having to give up who we think we are for who we really are, and who we really are is a whole, whole lot. We cannot know this if we are not willing to shed the old truths for the creation of the new truth within us that is waiting to Be, is waiting to be Known and Utilized. You Are Waiting To Be, but what you do not know, are not aware of, cannot possibly fathom, is that you already Know You, but you have been denying yourself the ultimate in Spiritual Partners - Your very self.
It is time that we all chose to include ourselves in prayer, with one another, alone with our selves, with our animals, with the Creator, with our Guides, our Angels, our Soul Tribes - we must remember our origins, remember that we were never meant to be "at each other," but only at each others' service. We have come to a point where we know what is plenty, are living through what we see as "lean," we know heartache, loss, anger and resentment, and right now is the time that we must release it all. We must allow our Souls to release the toxicity of the past, and we must understand that that which no longer serves us is also that which is no longer of use to our Path. We must release the old to make way for the new, and we must gladly allow ourselves to allow God to fill the void which is left by the absence of the things which insult our souls, and we must ...MUST do this on the level of the collective, because as it stands, there are many of us who are already ahead of the idea that we need to clear out, ponder, wonder what it is that we think is the reason that we are hanging on to the things which hurt us the most.
When you pray, be fervent, be true, and again, Be, In Love. Know now that you are the very Highest Representation of the All That Is, that yours is the face of God, as is your Brother's. Yours is the Soul of the Cosmos, as is your Brother's. Yours is the heartbeat of the Universe, as, too, is your Brother's. We must take care to the Malama'aina, to care for the Land, and in this instance the Land is two fold - it is our Mother, Gaia, and it is us, collectively, singly, and we must be more inclined to remain as gentle souls, here in service to others, no matter who and no matter for what reason - we must return to our own gentleness, and we must be able to impart this gentleness on the Whole of Mankind. We are who permeate one another with the beauty that is Love, that is Life, that is the Alo'ha within us all - we are the Breath of Life, the part of one another which is us, in Wholeness and totally absolutely not with the thought that somehow we need to be better than someone else, that we need to give others a reason to mistrust us through our own mistrust for them. We must be willing to see the world, not through the rose colored lenses we have chosen to this part of the Now, but through the Eyes of the Soul.
For many centuries we have passed down through the generations the aches and pains which were evidenced by the Bones of our Very Souls, through our tears and through the gnashing of our own teeth. We have been willing to raise arms against our Brothers, have chosen to be the Soul Murderers of our very Sisterhood globally, and the time has come where we must accept that this is not our Truth. This was never our Truth. Our Truth is within us each and is waiting to be birthed for the beauty and the Promise that it all is, collectively, singly, Universally.
We are being called to the task of becoming the Village which raises the Children in a collective manner. We are the children, Na Mamo, the Chosen and Cherished, and the Village is the world of all the different lands and the oceans which no longer separate us but instead connect us through the representation that is the emotional element of Water, and the world is covered mostly with water, meaning that we need to tap into that emotion collectively and for the very first time in any of our very human lives and stories, we must choose to See each other with Holy Eyes and through the Spirit's sight. We must look past the things that hurt and the past which marred and scarred us. We must bother with the idea that we are so not alone, and we must choose to Live Through only the Thoughts produced by the finest of minds. We must think that we are all that we are, even as we simultaneously are very personally different than one another.
We must choose Love above all else.
And yes, Ohana, it is the most important thing that we can do for each other and more, for ourselves, that we have ever done. We must Love our own selves if we expect anyone else to, and we must learn from the things that could have been seen as an infraction against us, and instead of thinking of that one thing in a negative manner, we must choose to see it as yet one more lesson that we are meant to learn and that we never have to learn ever again if we should so choose to not. Right now we are collectively as One, and it has taken us a long time to get here, and it was a lot of work, tears and loss, but here we are, at the top of the proverbial mountain, and all we have left is the view. Yet many of us cannot see the view because many of us are at the top and do not know we are all here and all together, and many of us are choosing only to look at where we have been and have chosen to judge it. Stop judging it. Stop judging you. You are here for a reason and it is not a hurtful but a healing reason.
You are meant to Be, In Love, and you are meant as a Divine and Holy Beacon, a Light shining in the darkness of your own fears. You are meant as an important piece of this intricate puzzle and knowing we all came into, each with our own lessons, our own Path to walk. We should live joyously in this time, regardless if we are in the mindset of Loss, of heart ache, of things that we do not want to look at. We are here in this time together, and at this time we are meant to be together in thought, in prayer, in harmony with the All That Is. Sadly, there are those among us who doubt that this time in history is real.
I implore those who have doubts to please take this time right now to sense with your body the things that your Soul is telling you, and I begging you all to not turn a deaf ear - the answers are there, are yours, and they are not the ones that you had hoped for, but are the ones that you need the most. Take heed to this message for it is meant as a catalyst into the New Age of Aquarius, where more and more of us will rise to the levels of greatness that we are no where near having the idea that maybe we deserve what we have now, what we see as ours in the future, and no matter what, whether you like it or whether you do not want it, whatever the "it" is, it is right, it is what you need. It is helping you to clear what is no longer useful, is applicable to the person who you were before the Shift within you began to take place. Your Soul will not allow you to go backward, and your Soul will wretch at the idea of doing things for the sake of others if it will also be to your own detriment -physical, emotional, mental, and especially Spiritual. We are fighting with each other, but what we do not realize is that truly, we are being called to be all the Soul Warriors we were born to be, and we are instead fighting our very selves.
Stop making your Soul beg for its Right to Be. Stop telling yourself that you do not deserve what has come to you. Stop being in the energy of denial, for it is not anyone but you who will be denied.
Right now, we must choose to Be, In Love. This is the entirety of this message - to Love with unfiltered energy, to give with much glee, to be open to receiving much of what we give to others. We are being taught through our experiences with other people exactly who we are. We must take heed and bother to learn.
We must be without fear of change. We must know in our heart of hearts and in the very deepest part of our Souls that this time, whatever is happening in our lives is needed. The clearing away of the old for the new is needed. We must release through forgiveness, and we must give Love, show graciousness as well as be Thankful, yes, even for the things that hurt us.
And again, the only thing that we are afraid of is change, because change makes us stretch.
Do not Fear. Fear is a negative vibration. Embrace the Fear and Know that the Truth is there and is Yours.
Know that you are the evidence of Truth in the Universe. Know that you are the Divine Measure brought about by Spirit. Know and Believe that you are as precious and as important as the Sparrows in flight, as God cares for the birds of the air, so surely, too, God must care for you.
Aloha
ROX/MAPU
Monday, December 10, 2012
'Tis the Season - The Gift, Part One (Yes, it IS Long...)
" Excuse Me while I kiss the Sky..."
...a Message For Us All...
(Rock Legend, Jimi Hendrix's, Purple Haze)
Right around this time of year, I begin to see signs of things to come, and am compelled to share with you all the very messages which are coming through my hands. While I will claim to the fact that some of what you are about to read will be mine, what you will be mostly reading are the messages which lie heavily within the very deepest recesses of my Very Weary Soul. Normally this channeled message does not come to me until almost the third week of December, but as we all know right now it is very strange and subject to get very moody at any time for any one of us...and I Know that this is the Truth about the collective Whole. We are bristling under the pressure of the changes happening for us right now. We are Manifesting our collective Highest Desires for the Well-Being of the Planet and the Whole of Us.
Take heed, Family, and Know now that what is happening to us is nothing short of Miraculous. It is said biblically that "...the Meek shall inherit the Earth," and this biblical passage has been sitting in my head since very late last night, when I lay awake in the darkness pondering the things which are happening to me particularly, to many in my inner circle, to many more than any one of us really, truly knows.
We are at the height of massive changes, and things which we thought were not going to be, "are," and things which are not sitting in our heads quite nicely really are "sitting there" quite comfortably because all of those ways of Our Being, Collectively, is in need - DIRE need - of the ability to release that which no longer serves us. We have got a whole lot of cleanin' to do, Folks, and if what you thought was hard to get through recently was anything to deal with, what comes next is going to make you understand what it means when Spirit moves us to do things that we otherwise might not do if the conditions under which we are all living at this time were different than they are now. I would like you all to go back in your minds for one moment, back one year from this date. Think about the issues that were happening in your life at that time and how you wished that whatever it was that was going on were not happening. Now think about your life a year ago this coming March...then June...now, September. Okay, now think back to just three weeks ago. Feel that ? Feeling what you are thinking right now is what we ALL need to do, I am finding. Now, go back twenty years in your mind and realize, just exactly like I have said, over and over and over again, not realizing what it is that I am saying to those who seek counsel, is also what I, too, need to do. I made a HUGE decision this past weekend, and I think the hurtful part of it all, the part that sucked the most, is that I had, at that very moment, decided for real that I had to do this...thing.
The part that hurts is not the Knowing that this just needs to Be, but rather and only the manifestation of it all, and this is not ...not not not...something that I am alone in. My days are filled with people asking me about their life issues and what I think they should do, which is merely to train themselves to think in a different manner. I do not realize that sometimes, when I am doing Soul Work with people, that sometimes, they are also my Healer. I Learn so very much from them all. There are a lot of broken hearts in the world right now, and right now we are being called up to do our work. Some of us are doing this work and don't know that this is what we are doing. Thank goodness for it, too - there is enough arrogant energy, too much in fact.
Then there are those of us who work directly and knowingly with teachers of Spirit. There are those who somehow just know that they are here for a Divinely Timed and Planned Purpose and who actively seek the counsel of those called "Wise Ones." It is the Wise Ones who have the kuleana to pass on the Wisdom of the Aumakua, to impart to the rest of the world of Souls the Wisdom of the Ages, and to show us who is here to help, to make it clear that all are here to learn, and also that all are here to teach. Right now we are finding out the depth of our own selves through those who we are mirrored by. We look into our own eyes when we are in the company of others, and in that company we are to learn to be with one another in an unconditional way. There are no conditions that last in this New Age which is upon the Universe. Think about how big of a deal that is....the entire Whole of the All That Is...you and I, all of us who make the "We" of the human family....is directly affected by and affecting EVERYTHING right Now, and if you thought about it long enough, you would find that the conversations you are having are being had with people from whom you do not have to not be the Real You with. Go ahead and tell em what's up with you, and I Promise they are probably gonna be okay, fine and dandy with what it is that you tell them. This is what I learned. I learned well that there are just some things that suck that we have to go through and when we are done going through it life is "stupid awesome" (Not my words...dangit, Gabby!...She does this to me ALL the TIME haha!!)
You see, we are all relearning to trust our very selves all over again. We fooled ourselves into believing that who we bought a house for and drove all those cars for and lived in that country club with is the person who you are for real, but that is not the truth of any of you. No matter what kind of things you own, you do not realize just how special each and every one of you are. Ya know - it is said that God knows the very number of hairs on each and every one of our human heads, that the sparrows want for nothing. If God cares about a bird, and a bird lives and thrives on its most base abilities, and we humans are thoughtfully provoking our lives at this time and having the ability to reason...you'd better bet your okole God cares about You !!! Rest assured God Cares, no matter what it may seem like otherwise.
We ALL have a whole lot of releasing to do. I do. You do. The guy in the red shirt over there digging his nose...yup, him, too. We are all tired as hell. Each and every one of us at this moment in time are somehow in flux, are trying to balance more than one thing at a time, and what we are not realizing is that we are not obligated to do that anymore, and the reality is that we never were. I am compelled right now to tell you all that what you are feeling right this moment in time is the release of those energies. No matter how much I want to fight this, not go through one more battle, not be tired, just be done, I have to. There are a whole lot of "have to's" for all of us, and yep - they are all painful. That's because they are all loaded with all that pent up negative energy that was stored up for many lifetimes, and now, in this time, at this very incredibly Special time for the entirety of the Whole of Us, we are releasing all of it, and yes, just as much as it hurt when it happened is just as much as it hurts right now. You will notice that energy right now and then in a little while, you will begin to feel the gradual release of it. You will feel blue. You will feel nostalgic. You will be tired, physically, because you are so, so, so tired Spiritually, and emotionally...and mentally. We are all so tired on so many levels, and we are here with one another, finding our Soul Tribes, and just Knowing you have been led to that similar energy should be plenty for any one of us to be mighty grateful for, to feel very fortunate to even Know, and more than that, Know that it also, good or otherwise, is how it is supposed to be right now.
We are being called to Do what we are each meant to Do with our lives. We are being called to Trust in our own Selves, in our Higher Calling, which manifests itself in many ways. We are hurting, collectively, but it is like being sore after exercise - it is a "good hurt." because we all Know that at the end of the hurt is the Healing on the Grandest Scale and Highest Level. We are Ascending, "Shifting," if you will. We are being introduced to our Soul Tribes. We are "Graduating" from the First Half - the Juvenile Half - of Our Collective Lives. We are being called upon to Grow and we are being trusted to Share with those within our Tribes.
We are being shown the Ohana of The Entirety of the Whole of it All.
We are expected to finally trust in the Love that is Our Soul
We are being called upon to our Higher Calling.
That which is no longer serving us has found its way out of our Lives, somehow, and all we did was Pray.
That which is meant to Be part of our Awareness of things and activities of a Higher Calling will Be, In Love, and will Become What Your Own Soul shows You That It Is, and yes, It IS as beautiful as You have "seen" it to be. You are, right now, creating that reality. All of it.
Right now, we are being Trusted to Share the Love and not have the idea in any of our heads that anyone has to prove it, because Love never has to be Proved. It Just Is. Mankind is in DIRE NEED of the Mana and the constant and ongoing Mana'o of Aloha to just Be. Right now this may not make sense to many of you, because you have not arrived to that place in your Soul where you are ready for it, and this is not a message to only you, but to me, as well, and it is coming through Loudly. We are to share with one another the gifts of the Spirit that have been Ordained to Us.
Period.
We are Being Called to Love, Guys...we are being "Told" that Now is Your Moment.
Don't be scared to take it...
MAPU
...a Message For Us All...
(Rock Legend, Jimi Hendrix's, Purple Haze)
Right around this time of year, I begin to see signs of things to come, and am compelled to share with you all the very messages which are coming through my hands. While I will claim to the fact that some of what you are about to read will be mine, what you will be mostly reading are the messages which lie heavily within the very deepest recesses of my Very Weary Soul. Normally this channeled message does not come to me until almost the third week of December, but as we all know right now it is very strange and subject to get very moody at any time for any one of us...and I Know that this is the Truth about the collective Whole. We are bristling under the pressure of the changes happening for us right now. We are Manifesting our collective Highest Desires for the Well-Being of the Planet and the Whole of Us.
Take heed, Family, and Know now that what is happening to us is nothing short of Miraculous. It is said biblically that "...the Meek shall inherit the Earth," and this biblical passage has been sitting in my head since very late last night, when I lay awake in the darkness pondering the things which are happening to me particularly, to many in my inner circle, to many more than any one of us really, truly knows.
We are at the height of massive changes, and things which we thought were not going to be, "are," and things which are not sitting in our heads quite nicely really are "sitting there" quite comfortably because all of those ways of Our Being, Collectively, is in need - DIRE need - of the ability to release that which no longer serves us. We have got a whole lot of cleanin' to do, Folks, and if what you thought was hard to get through recently was anything to deal with, what comes next is going to make you understand what it means when Spirit moves us to do things that we otherwise might not do if the conditions under which we are all living at this time were different than they are now. I would like you all to go back in your minds for one moment, back one year from this date. Think about the issues that were happening in your life at that time and how you wished that whatever it was that was going on were not happening. Now think about your life a year ago this coming March...then June...now, September. Okay, now think back to just three weeks ago. Feel that ? Feeling what you are thinking right now is what we ALL need to do, I am finding. Now, go back twenty years in your mind and realize, just exactly like I have said, over and over and over again, not realizing what it is that I am saying to those who seek counsel, is also what I, too, need to do. I made a HUGE decision this past weekend, and I think the hurtful part of it all, the part that sucked the most, is that I had, at that very moment, decided for real that I had to do this...thing.
The part that hurts is not the Knowing that this just needs to Be, but rather and only the manifestation of it all, and this is not ...not not not...something that I am alone in. My days are filled with people asking me about their life issues and what I think they should do, which is merely to train themselves to think in a different manner. I do not realize that sometimes, when I am doing Soul Work with people, that sometimes, they are also my Healer. I Learn so very much from them all. There are a lot of broken hearts in the world right now, and right now we are being called up to do our work. Some of us are doing this work and don't know that this is what we are doing. Thank goodness for it, too - there is enough arrogant energy, too much in fact.
Then there are those of us who work directly and knowingly with teachers of Spirit. There are those who somehow just know that they are here for a Divinely Timed and Planned Purpose and who actively seek the counsel of those called "Wise Ones." It is the Wise Ones who have the kuleana to pass on the Wisdom of the Aumakua, to impart to the rest of the world of Souls the Wisdom of the Ages, and to show us who is here to help, to make it clear that all are here to learn, and also that all are here to teach. Right now we are finding out the depth of our own selves through those who we are mirrored by. We look into our own eyes when we are in the company of others, and in that company we are to learn to be with one another in an unconditional way. There are no conditions that last in this New Age which is upon the Universe. Think about how big of a deal that is....the entire Whole of the All That Is...you and I, all of us who make the "We" of the human family....is directly affected by and affecting EVERYTHING right Now, and if you thought about it long enough, you would find that the conversations you are having are being had with people from whom you do not have to not be the Real You with. Go ahead and tell em what's up with you, and I Promise they are probably gonna be okay, fine and dandy with what it is that you tell them. This is what I learned. I learned well that there are just some things that suck that we have to go through and when we are done going through it life is "stupid awesome" (Not my words...dangit, Gabby!...She does this to me ALL the TIME haha!!)
You see, we are all relearning to trust our very selves all over again. We fooled ourselves into believing that who we bought a house for and drove all those cars for and lived in that country club with is the person who you are for real, but that is not the truth of any of you. No matter what kind of things you own, you do not realize just how special each and every one of you are. Ya know - it is said that God knows the very number of hairs on each and every one of our human heads, that the sparrows want for nothing. If God cares about a bird, and a bird lives and thrives on its most base abilities, and we humans are thoughtfully provoking our lives at this time and having the ability to reason...you'd better bet your okole God cares about You !!! Rest assured God Cares, no matter what it may seem like otherwise.
We ALL have a whole lot of releasing to do. I do. You do. The guy in the red shirt over there digging his nose...yup, him, too. We are all tired as hell. Each and every one of us at this moment in time are somehow in flux, are trying to balance more than one thing at a time, and what we are not realizing is that we are not obligated to do that anymore, and the reality is that we never were. I am compelled right now to tell you all that what you are feeling right this moment in time is the release of those energies. No matter how much I want to fight this, not go through one more battle, not be tired, just be done, I have to. There are a whole lot of "have to's" for all of us, and yep - they are all painful. That's because they are all loaded with all that pent up negative energy that was stored up for many lifetimes, and now, in this time, at this very incredibly Special time for the entirety of the Whole of Us, we are releasing all of it, and yes, just as much as it hurt when it happened is just as much as it hurts right now. You will notice that energy right now and then in a little while, you will begin to feel the gradual release of it. You will feel blue. You will feel nostalgic. You will be tired, physically, because you are so, so, so tired Spiritually, and emotionally...and mentally. We are all so tired on so many levels, and we are here with one another, finding our Soul Tribes, and just Knowing you have been led to that similar energy should be plenty for any one of us to be mighty grateful for, to feel very fortunate to even Know, and more than that, Know that it also, good or otherwise, is how it is supposed to be right now.
We are being called to Do what we are each meant to Do with our lives. We are being called to Trust in our own Selves, in our Higher Calling, which manifests itself in many ways. We are hurting, collectively, but it is like being sore after exercise - it is a "good hurt." because we all Know that at the end of the hurt is the Healing on the Grandest Scale and Highest Level. We are Ascending, "Shifting," if you will. We are being introduced to our Soul Tribes. We are "Graduating" from the First Half - the Juvenile Half - of Our Collective Lives. We are being called upon to Grow and we are being trusted to Share with those within our Tribes.
We are being shown the Ohana of The Entirety of the Whole of it All.
We are expected to finally trust in the Love that is Our Soul
We are being called upon to our Higher Calling.
That which is no longer serving us has found its way out of our Lives, somehow, and all we did was Pray.
That which is meant to Be part of our Awareness of things and activities of a Higher Calling will Be, In Love, and will Become What Your Own Soul shows You That It Is, and yes, It IS as beautiful as You have "seen" it to be. You are, right now, creating that reality. All of it.
Right now, we are being Trusted to Share the Love and not have the idea in any of our heads that anyone has to prove it, because Love never has to be Proved. It Just Is. Mankind is in DIRE NEED of the Mana and the constant and ongoing Mana'o of Aloha to just Be. Right now this may not make sense to many of you, because you have not arrived to that place in your Soul where you are ready for it, and this is not a message to only you, but to me, as well, and it is coming through Loudly. We are to share with one another the gifts of the Spirit that have been Ordained to Us.
Period.
We are Being Called to Love, Guys...we are being "Told" that Now is Your Moment.
Don't be scared to take it...
MAPU
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.
(c) 2012 Roxanne K. Cottell. All Rights Reserved
...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
Saturday, December 8, 2012
'Tis the Season - The Gift of a Vivid Imagination
We think our thoughts are not Powerful, but they are
It is hard for me to think that in my own life I have come as far as I have emotionally. Right now I should be a basket case, but the thing about this very Moment is that while on the surface of things I look like I am freaking out, the truths which lie beneath are very different, are very markedly the truth of me.
A Vivid Imagination
Not a lot of people do not know that I am a Pisces.We are quite the imaginative bunch, we Fish are. I have studied the Sign of the Fish for many years, and until I woke up a little bit ago, it was not my thought that there is something with a giant energy right now and in my life and in my face that from the perspective of my own imagination - the very same imagination which has helped me so many other times and which is aiding me at this time, too - I should, given the circumstances from my own personal history, be a basket case. Yet, I am not. In fact, I am so not what I thought and what I imagined I would be regarding the most important decision in my life that is my life...and I find that I am so not the giant mess that I believed that I would be. In fact, I am pretty solid in the choice that I made, and it took me the power of my imagination to bring to me the thing that I know I will need the most through this time.
It took my seeing with my mind's eyes, not the thing that scared me, but the thing that scared me as not being such a big fat scary thing at all. There is a certain set of people who know my whole story, who are well aware of the monster in the closet of my mind that has followed me for the majority of my adult life, and it was yesterday that I found myself not at a crossroads, because the road being traveled at this time is the divergent one from my norm, the one that is the Path of Least Resistance. Yet, when I think about it in terms of the Bigger Picture, this is really not a different Path but instead is a different way of seeing things while walking this Path.
I am big on the use of the imagination in my practice. I am very good at creating different scenarios and different options and different possibilities inherent and given in any situation. I am very good at seeing things from a totally different and other perspective. That is, until it comes to my own life. When it comes to our own lives we are very biased in what we want to see, in what we want in our lives, and we imagine those things coming to life without the idea that Spirit always has a better Plan for us, no matter what and no matter how scary the reality of a thing truly is. The reality of things always, because of the reality of the concrete and tangible nature of actual things, makes us pause and question Spirit as to how it is that what we are asking at the moment is anywhere near where we need, want and desire to be, and most of the time our human minds will not allow us to see what is really there. We want to imagine it being bigger than it really is, and based on our own experiences, based on the things that broke us, that crushed our Spirit and made us weary from the fight, we follow what was rather than calling in to Being the thing that already "Is" in our imagination.
Yesterday, my imagination did not at one time get the best of me. I was very grounded in the idea of what it is that I feared the most, and when I looked at the situation for what it really is, I saw that this is a Divinely Timed and Planned Thought, which is ultimately leading to an event which also, now that I have thought about it, no matter who thinks what, is also a very Divinely Timed and Planned thing and a very Sacred piece of the puzzle that I am building with other people close to me to bring about a greater energy of healing to the entirety of my world. While I am very good at showing people where there is an imbalance in the energies which permeate their own lives, I am not good at all at clearly seeing the imbalances in my own life that keep me from the things that in my own imagination, have already been set into motion, are already in Manifest.
It would be wrong of me to have asked for this one thing and to not forwardly move on the energies which make me dizzy, give me nausea, hurt my head, make me cry...and believe it or not, none of these things is a bad thing. These "symptoms" are merely manifestations of my own inner working, my own self-care and my own evolution.
Basically...
After much thought I find that I am facing my own monsters, the ones which I did not create on my own, but because of the fear that loomed, that in some ways still looms large for me, still is in my face, because the "doing" part of this energy is Becoming what it is meant to become, both to and for me, are very much the ones that have made my life a constant and self-imposed madhouse of emotional torture. The way that I will get through this is through the use of the thing that has brought me this far in every other area of my Life, and it is through imaginative thinking, through the visualizing of scenarios that will measure and look much like the ones that I present my clients with, and basically, it will be through that magnificent imagination of mine that, like many of those who have learned from me, I will be able to clearly see that it is about time that this particular circle in my Life be dragged, even if it is kicking and screaming, to a very needed, very welcomed close.
I find that there is truth to the phrase "Physician, Heal Thy Self," and even as I am not a physician, even as there is not a coach in any area that we coaches coach in who would dare call ourselves a doctor, we are, by any and all means and by any stretch of the thought and the imagination, healers. Thing is, there are a lot of us who have yet to do any of the work that we do with and for others for and with our very selves.
If ever there were a challenge which, even as I am a little bit terrified on this part of the Path, will not just test me, not just tax me, but will make me grow and evolve to what I know I am meant as at this time (and there are a whole lot of things that I am meant as at this moment and I am lagging dearly on them) it is this very monster of my own creation through my imagination which must be tamed, must be brought out of the inner recesses, and seen for the smallness that it is.
The very things that break us and hurt us and seem to kill a little piece of us are also the very things which we need the most to do. There are things that are ahead of me that are going to test my resolve, going to make me cry and going to feel like they are just dragging along.
However, there are also things ahead of me that will open the doors to the freedom and the permanence of releasing the monsters who have lived next to the skeletons and funny thing is...they are one and the same. But I am not the same. I am not the same person I was just a year ago. The things that did not make sense to anyone about me at this time last year are the same things that do not make sense about me and to me now but even more than they did back then. These monsters which I have fed all this time are just getting fatter, are just getting to be a bigger weight to carry, and make no mistake - I feel the very burden of their weightiness all the time.
Through the use of my own vivid and beautiful imagination, I will find myself victorious, find myself no longer fearing the monsters which I did not birth alone but are very much mine to no longer feed.
We must ask ourselves, as finally, I chose to, if what we are keeping in our lives which no longer serves us is being kept out of usefulness or out of fear. I had to ask myself why it is that I am so scared of something that is about as able to do as much damage as is the frailest of the frail among us. I really had to go within my own Soul, look the demon and the monster in the eye, wade through the murkiness that is the deepest darkness of the darkest corner of the Soul, and not ask if I am ready to do this, but more, how I could not see that I have been ready for many years now, and that it was the monsters which were there all along telling that I am not strong enough to take them on.
I Promise that I Am Stronger than even I Know I Am...and I am about to prove it...
As Always
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
It is hard for me to think that in my own life I have come as far as I have emotionally. Right now I should be a basket case, but the thing about this very Moment is that while on the surface of things I look like I am freaking out, the truths which lie beneath are very different, are very markedly the truth of me.
A Vivid Imagination
Not a lot of people do not know that I am a Pisces.We are quite the imaginative bunch, we Fish are. I have studied the Sign of the Fish for many years, and until I woke up a little bit ago, it was not my thought that there is something with a giant energy right now and in my life and in my face that from the perspective of my own imagination - the very same imagination which has helped me so many other times and which is aiding me at this time, too - I should, given the circumstances from my own personal history, be a basket case. Yet, I am not. In fact, I am so not what I thought and what I imagined I would be regarding the most important decision in my life that is my life...and I find that I am so not the giant mess that I believed that I would be. In fact, I am pretty solid in the choice that I made, and it took me the power of my imagination to bring to me the thing that I know I will need the most through this time.
It took my seeing with my mind's eyes, not the thing that scared me, but the thing that scared me as not being such a big fat scary thing at all. There is a certain set of people who know my whole story, who are well aware of the monster in the closet of my mind that has followed me for the majority of my adult life, and it was yesterday that I found myself not at a crossroads, because the road being traveled at this time is the divergent one from my norm, the one that is the Path of Least Resistance. Yet, when I think about it in terms of the Bigger Picture, this is really not a different Path but instead is a different way of seeing things while walking this Path.
I am big on the use of the imagination in my practice. I am very good at creating different scenarios and different options and different possibilities inherent and given in any situation. I am very good at seeing things from a totally different and other perspective. That is, until it comes to my own life. When it comes to our own lives we are very biased in what we want to see, in what we want in our lives, and we imagine those things coming to life without the idea that Spirit always has a better Plan for us, no matter what and no matter how scary the reality of a thing truly is. The reality of things always, because of the reality of the concrete and tangible nature of actual things, makes us pause and question Spirit as to how it is that what we are asking at the moment is anywhere near where we need, want and desire to be, and most of the time our human minds will not allow us to see what is really there. We want to imagine it being bigger than it really is, and based on our own experiences, based on the things that broke us, that crushed our Spirit and made us weary from the fight, we follow what was rather than calling in to Being the thing that already "Is" in our imagination.
Yesterday, my imagination did not at one time get the best of me. I was very grounded in the idea of what it is that I feared the most, and when I looked at the situation for what it really is, I saw that this is a Divinely Timed and Planned Thought, which is ultimately leading to an event which also, now that I have thought about it, no matter who thinks what, is also a very Divinely Timed and Planned thing and a very Sacred piece of the puzzle that I am building with other people close to me to bring about a greater energy of healing to the entirety of my world. While I am very good at showing people where there is an imbalance in the energies which permeate their own lives, I am not good at all at clearly seeing the imbalances in my own life that keep me from the things that in my own imagination, have already been set into motion, are already in Manifest.
It would be wrong of me to have asked for this one thing and to not forwardly move on the energies which make me dizzy, give me nausea, hurt my head, make me cry...and believe it or not, none of these things is a bad thing. These "symptoms" are merely manifestations of my own inner working, my own self-care and my own evolution.
Basically...
After much thought I find that I am facing my own monsters, the ones which I did not create on my own, but because of the fear that loomed, that in some ways still looms large for me, still is in my face, because the "doing" part of this energy is Becoming what it is meant to become, both to and for me, are very much the ones that have made my life a constant and self-imposed madhouse of emotional torture. The way that I will get through this is through the use of the thing that has brought me this far in every other area of my Life, and it is through imaginative thinking, through the visualizing of scenarios that will measure and look much like the ones that I present my clients with, and basically, it will be through that magnificent imagination of mine that, like many of those who have learned from me, I will be able to clearly see that it is about time that this particular circle in my Life be dragged, even if it is kicking and screaming, to a very needed, very welcomed close.
I find that there is truth to the phrase "Physician, Heal Thy Self," and even as I am not a physician, even as there is not a coach in any area that we coaches coach in who would dare call ourselves a doctor, we are, by any and all means and by any stretch of the thought and the imagination, healers. Thing is, there are a lot of us who have yet to do any of the work that we do with and for others for and with our very selves.
If ever there were a challenge which, even as I am a little bit terrified on this part of the Path, will not just test me, not just tax me, but will make me grow and evolve to what I know I am meant as at this time (and there are a whole lot of things that I am meant as at this moment and I am lagging dearly on them) it is this very monster of my own creation through my imagination which must be tamed, must be brought out of the inner recesses, and seen for the smallness that it is.
The very things that break us and hurt us and seem to kill a little piece of us are also the very things which we need the most to do. There are things that are ahead of me that are going to test my resolve, going to make me cry and going to feel like they are just dragging along.
However, there are also things ahead of me that will open the doors to the freedom and the permanence of releasing the monsters who have lived next to the skeletons and funny thing is...they are one and the same. But I am not the same. I am not the same person I was just a year ago. The things that did not make sense to anyone about me at this time last year are the same things that do not make sense about me and to me now but even more than they did back then. These monsters which I have fed all this time are just getting fatter, are just getting to be a bigger weight to carry, and make no mistake - I feel the very burden of their weightiness all the time.
Through the use of my own vivid and beautiful imagination, I will find myself victorious, find myself no longer fearing the monsters which I did not birth alone but are very much mine to no longer feed.
We must ask ourselves, as finally, I chose to, if what we are keeping in our lives which no longer serves us is being kept out of usefulness or out of fear. I had to ask myself why it is that I am so scared of something that is about as able to do as much damage as is the frailest of the frail among us. I really had to go within my own Soul, look the demon and the monster in the eye, wade through the murkiness that is the deepest darkness of the darkest corner of the Soul, and not ask if I am ready to do this, but more, how I could not see that I have been ready for many years now, and that it was the monsters which were there all along telling that I am not strong enough to take them on.
I Promise that I Am Stronger than even I Know I Am...and I am about to prove it...
As Always
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
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