The times of change we are living through are designed to keep us in survival mode, to bring distraction through enticement, intrigue, invitation and of course through fear.
If we are constantly tapped into the news feeds, to social media and to the frenzy that is modern life, we are going to feel anxious, fearful, chaotic and tired.
It can be easy to connect into the trail of a spiritual influencer, to spend weekends or even weeks cocooned in the energy of a thought or a process, only to step back into everyday life and feel that shock of disonance.
What we are always aiming for is to be connected to something greater, to raise our vibration and, in common spiritual parlance, ‘to ascend’.
But what does this actually mean?
There seems to be an idea, common through many religions and spiritual practices, that we will be lifted up off this planet to a higher realm where we will live in love and light.
But what if this isn’t the case?
What if by accepting the invitation to go journeying ‘out there’ to find ourselves and to find our centre we are bypassing the simple point of being here, of having this experience.
We are constantly told we must live in love and light, find love within, embody love and shine our light.
We can spend a lot of time working on feeling the love, embodying love and being love and I have struggled with this concept because of my childhood experience. If I connect with what brings me joy and lights my passion, then I know what this feeling is meant to be and that feeling is within me, not something that I seek outside of myself. For me this feeling is a moment of bliss and of love and here I find my centre.
In these days I find myself very much the observer of where we are going through the marketing of the spiritual path. What honeyed words conjure images to draw us into yet another course or another experience. And, hey, we all want to have an experience, to see what it’s all about, but we have a tendency to get on the band wagon of addiction to these experiences and end up in a circle of distraction, in a cycle of angst about whether we are doing it right, whether we are going to make it, to access the 5D or the 9D, or whatever is being marketed to us.
Dean and I have what we term ‘coffee conversations’
We greet each other in the living room each morning for the ritual of coffee. We always enquire as to what the other has been listening to or reading. Sometimes the conversation is the news headlines, not from a mainstream perspective but from how we see it in our world of lived experience.
Some mornings we might just talk about the vegie garden or what needs to happen in the dispensary, but particularly on Thursday and Sunday, when we have more time, the conversation can go deep.
Our focus more and more in recent times has been on recognising the distractions we are offered and the need to centre, to go inwards, to come home to ourselves. For all of the answers are within. Yes, that sounds cliched and trite but honestly after so many decades on the planet and so much of it about inner searching, questioning, reading, listening, experiencing and practising, we always come back to the fact that we’re all already there.
This is a time of remembering who we really are. Not the persona we have created to mask our inner vulnerabilities, but who we are as an eternal and divine being.
This is also a time of chaos and collapse, and that’s a good thing. This is the stripping down of the construct of the hierarchy, the revelation of the darkness, the things that are hard for us to look at. These are the times Dean and I have explored and discussed in theory for more than 40 years, times we didn’t imagine we would be here to experience. It always felt like a story that was being told but here we are, seeing the old world deconstructing and a new earth rising up. And in order to be a part of this we need to find our centre and ensure we are grounded, because as the energy continues to rise we’ll find ourselves more and more wobbly and off centre if we don’t.
No doubt, if you’ve even got this far, you’re gnashing your teeth and demanding to know how you can do this when you have to make packed lunches, get the kids to school, go to work, come home, cook dinner and go again tomorrow?
We do have to live in this world that envelops us and sometimes threatens to suffocate us, but the smallest moment, the quietest in-breath, the gentlest pause, lasting maybe seconds, can bring us back to centre, to who we are and to our Magnificence.
You are already a Master, you just need to Remember!
I know that statement brings disbelief; you’re probably scoffing at the idea of Magnificence. I’ve seen raised eyebrows when in a conversation with a client I suggest that they are already a Master, they just need to Remember.
It’s a challenging concept when we often feel small, unworthy, needy, unloved. I’ve been in and out of there for much of my life, but I’ve never been a quitter and I’ve always known there was something so much more than the external, even as a small child. I’ve had those moments of pure bliss when I’ve seen it and remembered it. That feeling you feel deep inside you, in your heart of sheer knowing.
Like many of you I’ve done the courses and classes, read all the latest books, done the meditation and breathwork, and listened to the podcasts. But I’ve never been a groupie, I’ve never had a guru, never connected long-term with anything or anyone because I’ve always sought my own truth, and I’ve been known for speaking that truth, often to the discomfort of others.
Many of us have worked through trauma or are still working through it, which can take up a lot of our energy and space, in addition to trying to live life. But wherever you are in life, whatever you are stuck in, you can find that quiet space within. And the more you find it, the more you will recognise that this is where home is, where the Soul sits, where we remember who we truly are.
Your Specialness is within you
You don’t need to meditate, although meditation is good if you don’t struggle with it. You don’t need to be in a special place with special scents, tools, music or clothes. Your Specialness is within you.
Wherever you are right now, stop what you’re doing, particularly if you are trying to multitask lunches, get kids out the door, finish a report or write an assignment, or maybe you’re sitting in traffic on the way to work.
Stop right there, close or dim the eyes, drop the focus and focus inwards to the space in the centre of your chest or between the eyes. It doesn’t matter which, you’ll know which feels right.
Imagine your feet firmly on the ground, even if they are already there. Focus on this, imagine roots curling down from your feet into the centre of the earth, through the Earth Star Chakra into the Crystalline Core. This is grounding and you can do it even if you’re lying down with your feet up!
Now take a big deep breath in and sigh that breath out along with all the stress.
Go again; take another deep breath and as you sigh the breath out feel the nervous system thanking you. Feel yourself dropping into your centre and maybe, ever so briefly, into stillness.
If you have time or space, you can continue with a few more breaths to hold you in your centre, to ground yourself and set yourself up for whatever comes next in your day with a few more calming breaths.
Take a few breaths in to the count of 4 and extend the out breaths for a count of 6 or 8. This form of extended breath can settle the nervous system quite quickly and get you centred.
But counting and breathing is still the external experience, much as the nervous system will thank you. What you are looking for is the feeling of being in the moment, withdrawn, disconnected from the external, with the world revolving around you, just for a second, maybe a few seconds.
And whether you can go deeper or not doesn’t matter, it’s the fact you are prepared to stop and take that breath and stop the world spinning just for a moment.
We are Divine
The Remembering begins in the Breath, and the Breath takes us within and when we go within we reconnect, we find 5D and we ascend into our Divinity, to who we really are inside this vessel that we have chosen for this lifetime on planet earth.
For we are all Divine and we just need to stop, take a breath, go within and reconnect to who we truly are.
Namaste ; “the Divine in me honors the Divine in you.”
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About Melanie Creedy
Melanie has used homeopathy as her main modality since the mid-1980s and has been in practice since 1998. For many years she ran The Children’s Ear Clinic in Western Australia, but since her tree change to Tasmania 20 years ago, has a special interest in helping individuals manage their life and health through looking at a diagnosis or condition in relation to the symbolism of this unique picture. Armed with a range of remedies from the most common to the most unusual and esoteric, Melanie guides people to plumb the depths of their life and spiritual path to help them find insights, to understand and to heal.
Melanie’s spiritual journey started with a deep interest in God when she was under 10 years old. That journey has taken her through an exploration of many facets of spirituality, to a point where she realised her path had to be her own and her walk was alone. As a deep thinker and a passionate blogger, many of these thoughts become blogs in an effort to demystify the myths which are created by so called gurus, looking to hold the attention of a seeker.
Melanie works with people on their life path using soul talk and soul listening and intuiting esoteric vibrational remedies to remove obstacles on the path. This can relate to physical, mental and emotional issues which are part of our ‘soul choices’ for this lifetime. Her approach is simple but deep, grounded, thoughtful and pragmatic. Not too much airy fairy speak going on here, just a drawing together of the threads of your life.
Melanie holds a Bachelor of Health Science (Homeopathy), Diploma of Nutrition (2008), Diploma of Yoga (2001) and she has been a Reiki Master since 1998.