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The Imprint of Celestial Beauty!

A Guide to living in Grace

We are all intent on moving through life sufficiently supported by our labours and avoiding risks by virtue of our skills and experience. Yet for many of us we neither fully engage with the greatest of our abilities or pass the tests presented to us in the buffet of life's reversals.

Within us is all that we actually need to influence the real world in the ways that far exceeds the needs of our conscious minds or our physical restrictions. This is a resource of inexhaustible strength, subtlety and beauty. It's source lies just within the bandwidth of our ability to hear and is connected to our original knowings. This is our unique heritage. It is the celestial imprint given each of us and is a road map of power to determine better living for us all and others.

When in conscious awareness we obstruct the flow of love and understanding that present naturally to us, we disconnect from our inner foundations and obscure our vision from the inner beauty of our inherited imprint.

Our inner knowings and the connection we might have to spirit become unreachable and our conscious mind dictates our actions in ways that are often less than beneficial to ourselves and others. When this happens we are presented with a dual conflict. Our inner self reacts against the conscious mind robbing us of peace and health. Also, the reality of our situation and actions impacts others too. From the external then, conflict and dissatisfaction arise too.

The alternative is that we act consciously to increase awareness of the celestial imprint buried within. Passing the threshold of such awareness enables us to access deeper understanding of ourselves, the world around and teaches engagement with life, health and loving kindness.

This knowledge is fundamental to us. We feel from infancy to decrepitude that "things happen for a reason". There are "gut feelings","instincts", "coincidences", "hunches", "foresights", "future certainties". We are given a never ending flow of information from our imprint about our lives. For the most part though we choose to become immersed largely in the operation of the conscious mind grasping at the easiest way of controlling ourselves and others.

If we pay attention to the quiet voice within that speaks our truth to us avoiding many of life's adverse occurrences is easier. The trick though is to be quiet enough, often enough to become accustomed to hearing this quiet voice. Ignoring it or drowning it out with the white noise of intellectual activity is easy though. At all stages of life we have choice though. 

You are reading this, because you have reached a moment of choice in your life. This moment is every moment too. Your celestial imprint is just there within easy reach. Light it up with your awareness and let it guide you towards a sense of grace.

Here are a few suggestions...

1. Take a few moments each day, to choose to do nothing and to go no where. Sit with yourself and just be, breathing deeply.

2. Whenever conflict arises bring to your mind the question, "what would a loving compassionate person do or say now?"

3. Move up the list of your priorities the health of your body. Even if what this means for you is as a few minutes of stretching. Physically what you are is what you do and eat. You decide.

4. Appreciate joy in yourself and others. You are wonderful and even the most obviously challenged others can be too. Show yourself and them a better way.

5. Listen to your instinct and when you receive its gift of knowing our understanding, consider it before rejecting its message.

Here are a few questions too.

Looking back on your life, if you have ever ignored your instinct in making a decision, what was the outcome?

How do you feel about becoming aware of your inner truth?

What is beautiful to you and how does relate to who you are?

How happy are you as you are?

How much of what you want is delivered to you?

If you could change one thing about the world at large or people in it what would it be?

If you could change one thing about yourself that would encourage this change, even to the smallest degree, what would that change be and how soon will you make it?

When is enough, enough?

Get in touch if you want to know more about your own Celestial Imprint and how to connect to it.

Healing

Acts of service...

Some of us and I put my hand up here, feel compelled to go through rigorous and occasionally heartbreaking personal scrutiny.  I/we do this for many reasons, sometimes to heal the sorrows that afflict us, to let pass the suffering of a heartbreak story or even simply to find a path to feeling better and more positive about life.

Often, then, with new knowlege and awareness we set out to demonstrate our new self to those we are in relationship with and anyone who will listen. We do this to practice what we have learnt, to bed it in so to speak and to recieve affirmation of our goodness at heart.

In a way the inner work we do is simply a call to heal what we can describe as our shadows. Those parts of our personality and character that remain buried that compromise all the good things we can and wish to be.

If we don't do the work we can't become clear about who we are and how our actions and behaviour impact others. Whatever this behaviour is, we are responsible for it and to be in or reach integrity (a state of wholeness) its a good idea to have a look at one's shadows.

When we embrace these shadows, cast some light upon them, notice that behind each one is a gateway to healing, we can get closer to our true spirit. We become empowered to show unconditional love even to those events and people that have wounded us so that we hid our true kind self from view.

As I love, accept and heal all parts of me and my inner world, I am able to unconditionally love all that is in my outer world.   After a while, as I heal myself, grow and connect with Spirit, I reach back and help others do the same.

To help others heal, start by healing yourself and taking a look at what you are hiding in the shadows of your soul.

Winterdreams

Just a question of purposefulness

Recently I have finally started to work out what my purpose is! It has taken me longer than some to reach a conclusion about this and shorter than others. Some people never find out what it is and live life aimless wandering between experiences rather bemused because life seems to be happening to them.

The great thing about purpose though, is that with purpose, we get to firmly grasp a steering wheel and drive through life; there may be turnings in the road, cul de sacs, pot holes and precarious twisting mountain passes to navigate. Though, the end of the journey and whether we find ourselves at destination is not pre ordained.

What we can know is that we are most likely to find our way there (or home) when we have a clear vision of where we would like to go.

Common sense really.

So why do most of us stay so determinedly to avoid our purpose? Why is it that we almost try everything we can ahead of acknowleging that we can do what makes fulfillment most likely? Even if there might be a few tough choices to make along the way. Is it chance that we set up our lives often in extraordinary ways with endless commitments, duties, responsibilities and emotional dependencies that almost completely prevent us from address our purpose whether it is our soul purpose (as a being in this lifetime), occupational purpose (as in what we would wish to do with our life) and our purpose as someone who can make a difference.

What then is our "purpose"?

"The reason for which something exists or is done, made, used..." says the dictionary. Essentially then, it is what we were created for. The problem is that we don't get it. Speaking for myself, I didn't get it. If I were to know what it is that would have been easy, but I didn't, not until just now. In fact it was while I was chopping onions with tears streaming down my face with the blade of my kitchen knife, cleanly severing slices apart with gleaming sharpness.

And here is the thing. We were created beautifully and imperfectly. We toil, suffer, fight, control, give up, spoil, love, lust after, hate, bore, divide and a million distractions mostly in order to maintain an impossible equilibrium. We attach significance to things, feelings, appearances, history and woundings and purpetuate our own suffering and often the suffering of those around us.

Yet we also have the keenest, crystal clear knowlege of how to live in full flow and easy of our purpose. I guess that sounds hard. Think of it this way though. Behind everything that gives us a moment of joy, a fleeting moment of fulfillment or even an inkling of how things could be better, there is a message. "Aha", it says, "I like this" or more accurately, "this is important to me. It means something so amazing, that it must be true that I can't have it more of the time."  We tell ourselves that we aren't worthy enough to experience joy more. Even when we are experiencing it, we argue that it is too good to last.

Hence here is the thing. We are enjoyment "machines" with faulty programming, because our mind and ego interfere with what our heart feels and our soul knows (if you believe we have a soul). If we were only to do what truely gives us joy (rather than what hides away our pain) we would be living our lives fully and on purpose and we would be immediately aware of what it is. Your life purpose is built in. No one else's is yours and it is hard wired into you so much so that it actually takes more effort to avoid know it than it does to find out what it is.

Finding it is therefore easy and we are given so many clues and they are easy to follow. You can do this alone or with a witness in a hurry or over time and it doesn't  matter how young, old, sick, healtlhy, sad, mad or bad you are.

1.  Write out or type "What is my purpose?"

Spend an hour writing anything that comes into your head. After a while your mind will stop giving your wayward answers and your truth will begin to emerge. Don't give up even if what you are writing doesn't seem to make any sense. Just keep going and in the end your purpose will emerge. You know you are getting close to it, when you feel emotion arising. Trust me on this, you can write down a hundred bits of nonsense, but you will know it when you hit paydirt. A bit like my onion moment earlier.

2. Identify 10 things that have made you feel joyful  (or if you are really stubborn 10 things that make you feel less miserable)

For each one keep asking yourself the question, "Why does this bring me joy?". Keep at it until all the half truths and deceptions vanish and then do it some more.  Once your truth has really appeared (you will know), write down one word that represents the value to you of that which brings you  joy. List these values out on a single piece of paper and then work out how much of the time you are honouring these values in your life.

3. This is the easiest one. Ask yourself "who am I? and "why am I here?" every night before you go to sleep and at the start of each day for a month.

Discovering your true life purpose can take  time. It can turn your life upside down, but it needn't do either. In fact just  finding out what it is will enable to begin changing your life. You might even need a bit of help moving your awareness of what your purpose is, to actually living it in practice. There will, no doubt, be plenty of reasons why not live it fully.

Why not give it a chance?

Adam

PS Mine is "to be in service to mankind by bringing healing, laughter and friendship unconditionally."

 

Unguarded spirit

The full moon of yesternight disappearing behind the Aravis skyline. The clearest of nights with  the shadows pine and spruce cast all about beginning to grasp at the chill of approaching winter.

Although brisk, it is not yet too cold to stand barefoot for a few minutes midnight silence on my balcony. The head dress of Mont Blanc fully visible under Diana's lamplight such that even the crows dare not take flight this night.

In this night there is room for great imaginings; stories seldom told except to children before sleep overtakes them,chapters in the greatest books of love are written, re-written and etched eternally in our hearts as ice into aged rock and music from the gods recharging my spirit so it almost bursts from my chest in song ...

 

Now that I feel the tiredness of day my deep longing

shall welcome the starlight night as a weary child does.

Hands, cease your toiling, head, forget about thinking.

For all my senses now are longing to sink themselves in slumber.

And the unguarded spirit wants to float on free wings

so that the magic circle of the night may live deeply and a thousandfold.

[Strauss, Schwartzkopf]

Alpine Projections

The last few feet before the summit of a climb where the slope flattens momentarily divide the soul between struggle,triumph and nostalgia. Arduous progress underpinned by the possibility of temporary weightlessness serves to open the heart to pure joy. In an instant of planting a foot upon a mountain's closest reach to heaven the mind reverses everything.

The long planning, training and expectation of the day and the waiting sleepless before the first steps are taken are forgotten. Even for an instant the dreadful weight of limbs, back pack and boots rubbing skin as exhaustion is passed again and again can be ignored. Consummation of the dream and proximity of heaven crystallise the moment for eternity.

Like the peak itself the soul of man and it's accompanying ego symbolise in perfect simplicity the moment the deadweight of that last footfall is made. The landing of it, the arrival, the release of joy in success and the peak itself projected into sky are simply one perfect point. In this instant of stillness and uninterupted views, our validation is complete.

Surviving the descent is another matter.

Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni

Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1816

"Mont Blanc: Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni" is an ode by the Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley. The poem was composed between 22 July 1816 and 29 August 1816 during Percy Shelley's journey to the Chamonix Valley, and intended to reflect the scenery through which he traveled. "Mont Blanc" was first published in 1817 in Percy Shelley and Mary Shelley's History of a Six Weeks' Tour through a Part of France, Switzerland, German and Holland, which some scholars believe to use "Mont Blanc" as its culmination.

After Percy Shelley's early death in 1822, Mary Shelley published two collected editions of her husband's poetry; both of which included "Mont Blanc". Mary's promotion of his poetry helped to secure his enduring reputation and fame.

In "Mont Blanc", Percy Shelley compares the power of the mountain against the power of the human imagination. Although he emphasised the ability of the human imagination to uncover truth through a study of nature, he questions the notion of religious certainty. The poet concludes that only a privileged few can see nature as it really is, and are able to express its benevolence and malevolence through the device of poetry.  

Click here to read the full poem....