What's been weighing on me....
"The reinvention process is messy!" I hear myself confirm this to my clients quite often. When we are in a process of transformation, it sometimes feels uncomfortable and awkward. Personally, I also feel HEAVY. Recently I took myself costume shopping in a vintage clothing store for a play I'm rehearsing for, set in 1949. I felt disappointed and disheartened when so many of the great dresses I picked out just didn't fit. I noticed the ego voice in my head start to sound critical and shaming me for gaining weight. I swear sometimes that voice is so loud! It's a cruel voice that makes me feel worthless and unlovable.
When it finally quieted down a bit, I wiped my tears, put on my imaginary parachute pack and took a deep dive into the center of my heart. Landing softly inside, the perfect insights and wisdom were revealed to me. Like so many other Awakening Angels on the planet currently, I am stumbling around...disoriented in this new paradigm. My body feels HEAVY under the gravity of this imploding world. I take responsibility for the choices I made that led me to experiencing this weight gain, and in order to change it, I need to own it. From a place of deep humility, I call for Divine Intervention! I am currently at my heaviest recorded weight, heavier even than my highest pregnancy weight...am I giving birth to something?
If I was again responsible for a new being on planet Earth right now, that would indeed be a HEAVY responsibility. What would be the single most important survival skill I'd want to teach? SELF-LOVE THROUGH SERVICE ABOVE SELF. The February New Moon is in Aquarius and the theme of our Global Sisterhood New Moon Tele-circle will be Inspired Vision: I serve the world with wisdom and love.
Every day, a little more Inspired Vision is being revealed to us all. Vision is often abstract, unclear, difficult to interpret and resistant to conforming inside of actionable steps and plans...however, it's powerful energy dissipates back into Source when it is not directed into Inspired Action. So, ultimately, it is up to us to receive our Inspired Vision, interpret it to the best of our ability, and put it into Inspired Action in our lives. That's it. We are not responsible for the outcome of our work (that is God's business), but we are responsible for doing our work with integrity. The trick is to trust that our efforts have contributed to the greater good even when we don't see exactly how.
What's been weighing on me, and what I suspect has been weighing on many people in the world right now, is an oppressive HEAVY FEAR. The fear inside my body is clutching desperately to the energy stored in my fat cells and seeking more, the way hoarders clutch to things and seek more, the way the 1% clutch the world's money and power and seek more, the way addicts clutch their drugs and seek more.... My HEAVY FEAR is what keeps me HEAVY.
Inspired Action (Action dancing with Inspired Vision) is the only antidote I've discovered that allows fear to slowly release it's heavy grip. When I am in Inspired Action, I become part of the solution. All of the excess stored energy in my body is there for a reason, there's no accident. The time is now to draw on those resources to fuel my Inspired Action.
I'm currently rehearsing for Agatha Christie's "A Murder is Announced" through Silver City Community Theatre. I'm also production manager and rehearsing for an adaptation of Jesus Christ Superstar, an ecumenical project to be performed over Holy Week (Palm Sunday, Good Friday and Easter). I'm producing an International Women's Day event to benefit El Refugio (our local domestic violence shelter), and a Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre Fundraiser for the Rotary Foundation. I'm partnering with Silver City Community Theatre to create an Actor Training Program in this community, something Inspired Vision shows me will bring life and joy to this little town. If it be God's will, may it take root and blossom, and spread light upon the heaviness of our fearful world.
Creating a Nightly Ritual, by Madisyn Taylor
Bedtime can be a perfect time for a nighttime ritual of sending love to the world and finding gratitude for your day.
At the end of the day, as the sweet, dark stillness of night beckons us to lay down our bones and rest, we find ourselves at a clear transition point: Behind us lies the previous day and all that has come before; ahead of us, dawn heralds the unfolding of all that is yet to be. While many of us have morning rituals that connect us with our center and help us to set intentions, we may want to explore the magic and power of nighttime ritual as well. It holds for us a beautiful chance for self-appreciation and blessing. Before you go to bed each night, you can send gratitude, compassion, and healing to the being you have been up until this moment. And you can send lightness and love into the future for the one you are in the process of becoming.
Though simple, this action honors the journey you have taken thus far, while opening you to the wonderful possibilities still ahead. When you consciously engage with your own evolution this way, you may find that your sleep gets sweeter, filling your night with a deeper sense of trust and relaxation. As you rest, you can surrender to these peaceful hours, knowing that the road behind you has been seen and acknowledged with respect and kindness, while the path ahead now holds your own benevolence and well wishes.
This bedtime ritual empowers you as the only one who can determine the meaning of your own past and the hopefulness of your future. By setting this special time aside each night, you can begin to orient yourself on your path of growing. It allows you to let the past have its place, to trust that the future is taken care of, and to simply rest yourself in the graceful arms of the present moment.
COOL RESOURCE- Mind Movies
Your Inspired Vision can be enhanced and strengthened through many techniques such as visualizations, affirmations and vision boards. I've recently come upon a cool resource I wanted to share with you and it's called Mind Movies.
Mind Movies transforms a boring vision board into a fun, digital video vision board filled with positive affirmations, inspiring images and motivating music.
Get empowered to reach your goals through Mind Movies. These short videos are designed to get your mind in peak 'manifesting' mode - in just a few fun minutes a day.
Mind Movies has already touched over 4,236,000 lives worldwide… and you can be next by claiming your six free Mind Movies below.
- Wealth/Abundance
- Vibrant Health
- Courage and Confidence
- Loving and Appreciating Myself
- Finding Inner Peace
- Attracting Friends and A Great Social Life
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday, February 15th, 2018 @ 1:00 pm PST/2:00 pm MST/4:00 pm EST
Global Sisterhood New Moon Tele-circle
Theme: Aquarius: Inspired Vision: I serve the world with wisdom and love
Click Here to Register-------> Global Sisterhood New Moon Tele-circle
Global Sisterhood is a movement of soulful women around the world unifying by gathering in Sister Circles every new moon focused on a transformational theme. Together we are creating a global Sacred Sisterhood, virtual and in-person, of women devoted to transforming ourselves and the world.
www.women.unify.org
Sunday, February 18th, 2018
Silver City Community Agape Event (Meal and Art workshop!)
Agape means Love. Let's come together for a Free Community Meal and Activity to celebrate our love for one another! You will have an opportunity to participate in creating rainbow hearts to send to a Montana church that's been vandalized due to their loving stand for the LGBTQ community. See details below.
Where: Fellowship Hall at 1st Presbyterian Church (1915 N. Swan St. Silver City, NM)
When: 1:00 Meal followed by a Rainbow Heart workshop @ 1:30 pm.
What: The Billings Gazette reports-"A volunteer discovered a swastika painted on the choir room door, and more anti-gay literature pinned to a bulletin board inside the room. Outside on a church sign that reads, “Open doors, open hearts,” someone had scribbled, “No gays."
Our friend from Grace United Methodist Church writes on facebook:
"Hate has broken into a church that I love.
Grace UMC has done nothing but love their community and profess “Open Hearts, Open Minds, Open Doors” - welcoming all to worship and fellowship there.
I am not looking for opinions on this one. I’ve made this post public so you can help spread the word. (Please, if you feel the need to share some of your opinions or rhetoric send it to me privately.)
I am looking for partners willing to show Grace UMC some love and support in the darkness of what has happened in the last two weeks.
Let’s help them fill every window with rainbow colored hearts with words of love and encouragement.
If you are willing, send rainbow colored paper hearts with your support to:
Grace UMC
c/o Pastor Sarah Beck
1935 Avenue B Billings MT 59102
Can you help fill their church with love?"
All Community Agape Events are FREE.... however, we like to know how many people to expect so we can provide enough materials and healthy, delicious food for all.
RSVP HERE
Life is Beautiful.....so let's Love it up!
A Murder is Announced
by Agatha Christie
The Plot: An announcement in the local paper states the time and place when a murder is to occur in Miss Blacklock's Victorian house. The victim is not one of the house's several occupants, but an unexpected and unknown visitor. What follows is a classic Christie puzzle of mixed motives, concealed identities, a second death, a determined Inspector grimly following the twists and turns, and Miss Marple on hand to provide the final solution at some risk to herself in a dramatic confrontation just before the final curtain. (Samuel French).
Dates for A Murder is Announced
February 23, 24, 25
& March 2, 3, 4, 2018
Location - new venue!
Penney Playhouse, 405 N. Bullard Street, Silver City NM
International Women's Day, Thursday March 8th
Women are rising to demonstrate a new way - The way of unity, cooperation, heartfelt and soulful leadership, authenticity, and integrity. You are invited to join us.
Join the Global Sisterhood movement, offering worldwide Sister Circles and a synchronized meditation on International Women's Day!
Tens of thousands of women will be gathering in sister circles around the globe and synchronizing in meditation with the intention to positively transform both the present and the future. The energy will be electric and we would LOVE for you to be there.
7:00 PM YOUR Local Time Zone.
Each circle will participate in the Heart Meditation by either tuning into the live broadcast--in a synchronized moment with tens of thousands of women around the world--or by the circle facilitator leading the meditation themselves.
Where: Fellowship Hall at 1st Presbyterian Church (1915 N. Swan St. Silver City, NM)
When: 6:00pm sample International cuisine (while it lasts!) followed by a Sister Circle Unify Heart Meditation @ 7:00 pm.
What: A Collection Basket will be passed to benefit the work and women of El Refugio (our local domestic violence shelter).
Sisters, daughters, mothers, and grandmothers are invited to join a Sacred Sisterhood where jealousy, competition, comparison, gossip, shame, and exclusivity are healed and transformed. The time is now for us to reclaim our worth, power, and gifts of intuition and empathy, and UNIFY to heal, innovate, and transform our world.
CONNECT WITH ME
I'd love to hear about your Inspired Vision, and send personalized resources to support your Inspired Action! Book a 30 minute Virtual Coffee Date on my Calendar HERE.
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