self-compassion is the only way to your healing

everyone’s running around with such fear about being the next person to be wrong. where the spotlight and target, the bright lights of shame and guilt will be upon them.

does anyone look flattering in the bright lights of the examination room? collective eyes focus in on one person and create unnatural scrutiny. people blinking and freezing inside of that energy. trapped like animals in the headlights.

and then you judge yourselves for what you do in the states when you are frozen, a million times you deny your animal nature, your tender bodies, judging your judgement instead of turning your eyes on compassion for yourself.

what if

what if

everything you did. even when you are wrong. could be met with your words to yourself of:

i love you. i see how you try. i see what you tried to do. i see your motives. i see your animal nature. i see you. i love you.

self-compassion is your way into transformation.

instead, when you find that you had wrong doing, you either try to avert the blame to avoid the crushing weight of your displaced self hatred, or you take all of it into yourself.

when we say that compassion is the antidote to all, we mean it.

if you were truly compassionate towards yourself, would you ever have to defend yourself? if you were truly compassionate with yourself, would you ever have to be filled with such shame for making a mistake, from coming from a place of your conditioning, your trauma, or your outgrown human nature?

no.

but the part of you that is young, that has your baby fist raised, that holds the red flag in your hand, the flag of war, the flag that screams for revolution, says: ‘we do not have time for compassion’.

and we — we are your elders, this land, the ones who have been through this revolution and this iteration before, again and again, we who see your patterns and repetition with the clear perspective of eons, with the same perspective of the life forms you’d study in a lab — we say:

you do not have time to NOT lead with compassion. without compassion for yourselves and each other there is no transformation, only repetition. in your hurry, in your anger, in your immense grief about what you have done to your world + to each other — the climate. rape. white supremacy. subjugation. enslavement. all manner of horror— you say:

"there is no time for compassion. there is no space. i am a monster. we are monsters. compassion is tantamount to acceptance and this is not acceptable.”

and we say:

to see yourselves as only monsters is to not see yourself fully. to see yourselves with compassion is to have a complete picture. compassion is not an excuse. compassion is not a pass at being in a place of recognition of harm, of amends, of change. compassion, rather, is the embodiment of all these things. the way forward through these things.

self-hatred cannot be the foundation of transformation.

how can you be motivated to transform if you do it from a place of hating yourselves? from a place of believing that you are worthless? what, then, are you working towards? zero times anything is zero.

compassion is having the love for yourself in the space of your accountability. it is the ability to say - nobody else has this information about me, but i do. i can trace back the places of my wound-edness, of my transgression, as a person and as a collective, and i can see where they occurred. i do not use this tracing as an excuse but as an entry point to understanding myself. not under the bright lights of the examination table but under the pathways of my soul, of humanity and human nature.

take your binoculars. peer back, with your feeling and your senses, the river that runs through your body. follow it to the source. find the spring, find the lake, find the water source. and see. without your eyes of hatred, see the influences here. you have the ability to do this. peel back the layers and see with the eyes of the witness all that has led up to this.

you do not need to prostrate at any altar. you do not need to beg. those gods have left, and you can choose to worship in a way that is not so punitive.

do not flagellate yourself. physically, emotionally. for the wounds you’ve inflicted on yourself or others-- an eye for an eye.

instead. trace back the pathways. understand the origin point. meet with softness so it does not retract. let yourself see. only by seeing will you be able to really understand. will you be able to really change the course. not through a rejection of all that you are, but through an understanding of all that has led you + those before you to this point. with compassion.

this message was channelled by me on 6/25/19 @ mount tabor park. gratitude and acknowledgment to the chinook peoples on whose ancestral lands this was channelled ❤️

your mind needs a vision like your belly needs food

you’re right — you can only move from your enough-ness, and your enough-ness in this moment is what will make your enough-ness for tomorrow.

so work, when you are ready and also when you are not, because it is how you know you are alive - yes, keeping pace with the world. work — what does that mean?

the driving towards something that you cannot see or reach. try to reach it. strive. set your sights on what calls you most deeply and brightly and use it. your intuition, your V👁S👁ON. you must USE it to envision the world you are creating.

it is important to have something to reach to.

the dexterity of the human mind is activated by striving towards, achieving the goal. experiencing the way the elements of the physical world, the stars and atoms, elements of will and magic, and all of the seen and unseen forces combine to build the stairway to get there. the miracle of how it materializes beneath your feet, creating the reality that you walk forward to. ⠀

VISION and this process is what the human mind thrives on. eats. wants to ingest and digest and work all of its creative, thread-like muscles to weave with tender light the path forward to the other end. ⠀

you are made to walk the steps, the god-parts of you, watching matter be created underneath your feet.⠀

give your mind the food it is made to take in, give your mind the supper it craves. have your vision with intent and purpose. if you do not do it on purpose, your mind will set itself to creating the half-baked visions carried out in the smaller and fearful parts of your brain, such is your appetite.

so use your vision with all of your intention and purpose. yes. your thoughts create, so use your imagination to create the world that you know is possible.

and when it is scary, when it is hard, keep breathing, keep trying. move with your enough-ness and know that the recognition of:

deficiency
deficit
>>>>lessons that you recognize you need to learn but have not yet mastered <<<<<

the part of you that sees that you need to learn

IS WISE
and is speaking to you from your enough-ness.
do not take these recognitions as

defeat
despair
evidence that you don’t have it and never can —

rather, recognize that they are coming from wisdom. <not the fears and dark whispers, but the honest parts that your ego may try to protect you from, that voice that sees your growth edge + trajectory and urges you on>

the wise part of you that sees where you need to grow— dear child this is part of your vision.
so use it. breathe it in . breathe in the thing that you want to know how to do, how to heal the violence inside of you, how to create that which you have seen in your vision and want to make material.

acknowledge that there is something you want, that you need help, and envision with all your VISION what this healing looks like. what you look like on the other end.

let the genius of your enough-ness and your desire be in community with those who have already learned with brilliance and humility guide you — walk towards that. take the steps. let them materialize underneath your feet. be amazed that they do. prove it to yourself. you will see, and be seen. listen to the voice that is calling you into growth.

learning reiki can be a gateway into your energetic sensitivity

when I started my foray into the world of magic and energy work, reiki was the doorway. i learned it on a whim from my partner at the time’s father, not having any idea what it would lead to. not thinking that it would lead to anything, really. 

what happened when i learned reiki was that a switch was flipped. energy healing, crystals, psychics, and earth magic were all things that it was cool for other people to believe in, but i secretly judged them. learning reiki showed me that these things were real. that energy was real, and that i could feel it.

I’ll never forget the experience after I took my first reiki class of hugging the other person I learned with, giving reiki to each other, and feeling the energy moving back and forth between us. I was in thrill, awe and gratitude that i was feeling energy that way, which continued to unfold in the weeks following as i realized i was sensitive to so much of the world around me. it was like i had found new, energetic fingertips.

learning reiki is an initiation and an invitation. an initiation into the world of unseen sensitivity, and an invitation to feel yourself and your own energy in a deeper way.

My learning reiki was a part of a huge psychic and spiritual awakening. (which also coincided with the beginning of my work with my teacher, Shayne Case). I continue to love and to teach reiki because it is the foundation of all my work, a powerful, beautiful entry point into healing, into our energy bodies, and into the unseen. i LOVE gently leading folks deeper into their own sensitivities with this tool.

Join me for Reiki Level 1 workshop on Saturday, June 8th in SE Portland! Cost is $180 with sliding scale and payment plan options, and all the details are on my website, link in my bio. Come play! Come learn! Come heal! All class details and sign up info are here.

the sound of your breath is calling you home

your breath is patterning the song of your soul, calling you back into yourself. ⠀

did you know that this sound is like a fingerprint, unique only to you? each breath lovingly tracing the hairs inside your nose, the pathways inside of your lungs, the width of your throat, the shape of your nostrils. an exact sound that only the instrument of your body can make.

listen to the softness, sharpness of your inhale, exhale. each microsecond of your breath knows you, a song that you’ve sung billions of times.

homing beacon, bird call, it will welcome you back into yourself.

if you feel lost,
unable to find yourself in the forest of your mind and thoughts,
listen slowly, intentionally, to the sound of your own breath.
this sound was put there, inside of you, by the gods themselves as a reminder, a shortcut.

a precious compass
inviting you to make love with the minutia of your own airways
and remember who you are.

truth does not need our confirmation or approval; it just is / surrender part 2:

All humans are inclined towards healing. As in, when we request it, the process begins to unravel the things that do not align, like water flowing down to the lowest point. It is force, like gravity. An energy that we invite with flipping the switch of willingness.

So. How do we surrender? Allowing ourselves, contradictions, constructions, identities, beliefs, stories, to be undone. We say:

"Anything that is true will be there and will remain without my needing to hold it". Anything that we need to hold – any story, any identity, any dogma, and belief — can still be true without our needing to energetically hold it. Without our energy being tied up and holding it, without our clinging to it.

Because truth does not need our approval or confirmation. It just is.

Surrender is a constant practice, one that maybe we can understand by looking at a waterfall. Every second of it is surrendering, every second the water is letting go and falling down to the earth underneath. Not holding. Not containing. in a constant process of allowing.

To practice allowing, we practice finding the spaces inside of ourselves that are holding, like dams holding water or shapes. And we say "do I need this? Is this an obstruction?" And we breathe. And experiment with what will happen when we allow the forces of that water to do what is in its nature to do, which is to break through the dam. To flow forth, to carve a new path, to flow to the lowest point.
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this is part 2 of a series on surrender that I channelled from earth energies in December. Part one is on my feed! post from 12/4. Transmission Tuesday is a weekly feature in which I channel loving messages from spirit guides and earth energies, and share with you all!

HOW DO WE SURRENDER (PT 1)

we tell ourselves: “you have 360° of permission to be exactly as you are.” we swaddle ourselves with loving blankets, give ourselves wide perimeters, and adorn ourselves with eyeglasses of complete love and willingness to accept the expression of our truest natures, exactly as a parent would do to the littlest child.

we listen to and observe ourselves without judgment, objectively. Knowing that We Can Only Ever Begin From Exactly Where We Are, knowing that the only platform for moving forward is true honesty with ourselves, true willingness to see us and our feelings exactly as we are in this moment.

we build and cultivate compassion for ourselves. why are we X, Y, and Z? We look at the world that shaped us. The families that shaped us, structures, systems, our experiences that shaped us. we hold all of that in compassion and acceptance, knowing that it is always OK for us to extend compassion to ourselves. that this is always a starting point and is never wrong.

within that, we affirm our own innate goodness. no matter who we are. we look to nature, the land, the trees, the infinite — these beings who only care to hear from us “I am ready to be held by you”. and we do our best to accept their unconditional love and acceptance, even though it is hard and terrifying and so energetically different from what we are used to receiving. every day, we work to accept that unconditional love can be and is true.

we can trust when we rest into the arms of this love that the healing of all beings is interconnected. when any of us is engaged in behavior that harms others, we are harming ourselves, too. infinite wisdom / nature / goddess / spirit / source knows this. and holds healing for all as the trajectory of our growth.