Bitter

If I could tell you anything to save you the time and the lessons in this life, I would tell you to never let anything that happens to you turn you bitter. Don’t let the pain of something that was out of your hands turn you cold, love. Stay soft, as hard as that is sometimes, try.

Try with all of your heart to stay tender. I know there’s a lot of things that hurt, take us to our knees and threaten our hearts with a stone cold grudge. Let it go.

You can’t change it, but you can choose to not let it change you. Don’t let the pain define you.

You are bigger than that. I hope you know. You are never how someone makes you feel. Let it hurt, then let it heal. But don’t linger there.

Remember who you are and rise.

~ Stephanie Bennett-Henry✨

Broken Men

The truth is. He is a broken man. And honestly, you’re not meant to fix him. You’re not meant to save him. Change him or even force him to get his shit together. No. If he doesn’t want those things for himself to begin with, then why should you exhaust yourself trying to help him. You can’t make someone care. You’re not his mother. And your love is not meant to be drained by redirecting careless grown men towards their glory. You’re better than that. You have your own problems to deal with. And honestly, you have better shit to do.

-R. M. DRAKE

Current Energies

Notice as we shift from a physical to deep energetic awareness, the nature of our existence is changing dramatically. Increasing stress, energy or incompatible life situations reflect we are adjusting to a higher vibration. Old patterns, behaviors and beliefs are surfacing for release. Feeling disoriented, “out of place” in the familiar, the acceptable is suddenly unacceptable and beckons action. This tells us we are no longer focused only in 3-D, we are shifting into higher realms, or conscious of and integrating multiple realms already.

Unusual aches and pains through the body are purifying and releasing blocked energy vibrating at 3D, while we are vibrating in a higher dimension simultaneously. Recalibration is underway.

Rest assured, it’s common to awaken during the night between 1 and 4 a.m. or even multiple times. The dream state is not what we are taught. We can’t all yet handle intensifying energy for long periods, must break it up. ‘Cleansing and releasing’ is going on, allowing insights into the interdimensional nature of night dreams. Short-term memory loss, sporadic recall of the past are common. We are growing aware of existing in more than one dimension at once, and flip-flopping back and forth as part of the transition like changing stations on a cosmic radio dial. Hence, symptoms of ‘disconnect’ with different people and situations. Also, our past is linked to the Old world, and the Old is gone. Being in the Now is the way of the New World.

Know ‘seeing’ and ‘hearing’ things is a symptom of experiencing different dimensions as we transition fully. Our range of sensory perception, what we register with familiar and subtler senses, is based on our sensitivity, how we are wired and which dormant systems are coming on line or already activated.

Life may feel topsy-turvy. We are forgetting what we no longer require. Loss of identity means the “Old you” grows quietly inaccessible, like it no longer exists. Clearing old patterns allows us to embody far more light. Rest assured, all is in order.

Another thing: ‘out of body’ (OBE) experiences are increasing. We may feel as though someone is talking, but it is not us. This is our natural defense mechanism of survival when we are under acute stress, trauma or out of control. Easing the transition process, may include tuning out or dissociating from the body. This only short term. It passes. Deep sleep is par for the course. You are resting from all the acclimating and are integrating, as well as building up for the next phase.

As energies shift within, we grow more sensitive to surroundings. Crowds, noise, foods, tech, other human voices and various other stimulations are barely tolerable. Overwhelm happens very easily with overstimulation. We are tuning up. Know this too will pass.

Come what may, rest periods and ‘rebooting’ are required. Each body knows what it needs. Awakening more fully is realizing that as our vibes heighten, reaching the higher realms, ‘doing’ and ‘making things happen’ is obsolete. New energies support the feminine of receiving, creating, self-care and nurturing. Ask the Universe to ‘bring’ it on while savoring life. Alignment happens in heartfelt energies.

Certain intolerances also present for lower vibrational things, reflected in conversation topics, attitudes, societal structures, healing modalities, etc. We may feel ‘sick’ inside, feel alienated. When our vibration is no longer in alignment, we are literally ‘pushed’, to move in new directions, to ‘be’ and create the New. All-the while, our appetite for food and other old consumption diminishes. The body is lightening and changing biochemically.

Suddenly, friends, activities, habits, jobs, life situations fall away. We are evolving beyond the former version of us, and what disappears no longer matches our vibration. The New arrives in parallel with our changing vibes.

Curiously, we absolutely cannot do certain things anymore. Some activities evoke dizziness, queasiness and worse. Fatigue hits. Our body is losing density, going through intense restructuring that physical senses cannot begin to register or understand. The periodic blurring or pixelating of vision is part of this process. Some frequencies leave from scope of consciousness. The range of sound-light received, decoded and transmitted is shifting.

Some people feel urges to eat often along with what feels like attacks of low blood sugar or know weight gain, especially in the abdominal area. Cravings for protein happen. Weight gain with an inability to lose it no matter what you do is one of the most typical experiences. Trust that your body knows what it is doing. It’s another exercise of accepting oneself fully without judgement. This comes with emotional ups and downs, unexpected tears. Our emotions are our outlet for release, and this happens a lot.

That nagging desire to go “Home,” as if everything is over and we don’t belong here anymore is part of the process of returning to Source. Everything is over, the process is done, but many of us are staying to experience and create the New World. Also, our old plans for coming have been completed.

Your ego is losing much of itself and is afraid. Your system is also on overload. Things are happening to you that you may not understand. You are also losing behavior patterns of a lower vibration that you developed for survival in 3D. This may make you feel vulnerable and powerless. The patterns and behaviors we are losing are not needed in the higher realms. This passes into a sense of love, safety and unity.

It may surprise some, but vivid, wild and even violent dreams may stand out. We are releasing many lifetimes of lower vibrational energy. Many are now reporting beautiful blissful dreams too. Our dream state will eventually improve and dreams will be consciously used for new kinds of conscious creation such as interdimensional travel and interactions if this is not a facet of reality already. Some experience deep releasing and travel while awake.

Do not be surprised as plans suddenly change in mid-stream and go in a totally new direction. Soul is balancing out our energy. It usually feels great in this new direction, as our soul knows more than we do.

Some of us feel we created very difficult situations, with many ‘worst nightmare’ aspects to it. Soul is guiding us to ‘stretch’ into aspects of self where we were imbalanced, or into ‘toning down’ aspects where we were a bit over-the-top. Our energy is re-balancing itself. Finding our way to peace through this situation is the test we have set up for ourselves.

Come what may, each of us has created our unique journey, and our soul would not have set it up if we could not handle it. We are the one who finds our way out and so it is already done. Looking back, we are grateful and appreciate every twist and turn, emerging as the best version of ourselves, a very different being.

– Liara Covert

Meet me where I am at – Tara Shannon

There’s something you need to know

To understand

From someone who’s been there

And will be again…

In a place of overwhelming sadness

Of grief

Fear, worry

…and anxiety

Stuck

In this moment that can last a short time

Or go on for days

Or weeks

Months

Even years

In these moments

These times

This — this is where I’m at

All cylinders firing

Trying as best I can

Just to get by

Moment by moment

Day by day

And when I’m here

I’m not going to reach out

I’m just not

At least not yet

I’m not ready

I’m too busy

Too overwhelmed in the process of being and trying to find my way

To begin healing and searching out that speck of light in the dark that will hopefully begin guiding me out

So, no

I’m not going to reach out

But you

You… can reach in

And meet me where I’m at

Meet me with a gentle presence

With patience

No pressure

With empathy and care

And no expectations

Reach in

And don’t be upset when I don’t reach back

But

Do keep reaching in

Saying “hello”

“I’m thinking of you”

That’s enough

I know you’re there

And I love you for it

Even if I don’t say the words out loud

One day I will

When the weight of my world feels less heavy

After the sun has found its way in through the cracks

One day

You’ll reach in

And

I’ll reach back

~Tara Shannon

~ Art by Hayk Shalunts

The Invitation – Oriah @ MountainDreaming

The Invitation

It doesn’t interest me

what you do for a living.

I want to know

what you ache for

and if you dare to dream

of meeting your heart’s longing.

It doesn’t interest me

how old you are.

I want to know

if you will risk

looking like a fool

for LOVE

for your dream

for the adventure of being alive.

It doesn’t interest me

what planets are

squaring your Moon…

I want to know

if you have touched

the centre of your own sorrow

if you have been opened

by life’s betrayals

or have become shrivelled and closed

from fear of further pain.

I want to know

if you can sit with pain

mine or your own

without moving to hide it

or fade it

or fix it.

I want to know

if you can be with joy

mine or your own

if you can dance with Wildness!

and let the ecstasy fill you

to the tips of your fingers and toes

without cautioning us

to be careful

to be realistic

to remember the limitations

of being human.

It doesn’t interest me

if the story you are telling me

is true.

I want to know if you can

disappoint another

to be true to yourself.

If you can bear

the accusation of betrayal

and not betray your own Soul.

If you can be faithless

and therefore trustworthy.

I want to know if you can see Beauty

even when it is not pretty

every day.

And if you can source your own life

from its presence.

I want to know

if you can live with failure

yours and mine

and still stand at the edge of the lake

and shout to the silver of the full moon,

“Yes.”

It doesn’t interest me

to know where you live

or how much money you have.

I want to know if you can get up

after the night of grief and despair

weary and bruised to the bone

and do what needs to be done

to feed the children.

It doesn’t interest me

who you know

or how you came to be here.

I want to know if you will stand

in the centre of the fire

with me

and not shrink back.

It doesn’t interest me

where or what or with whom

you have studied.

I want to know

what sustains you

from the inside

when all else falls away.

I want to know

if you can be alone

with yourself

and if you truly like

the company you keep

in the empty moments.

By Oriah © Mountain Dreaming

from the book The Invitation

Soul retrieval

You have traveled too fast over false ground;

Now your soul has come to take you back.

Take refuge in your senses, open up

To all the small miracles you rushed through.

Become inclined to watch the way of rain

When it falls slow and free.

Imitate the habit of twilight,

Taking time to open the well of color

That fostered the brightness of day.

Draw alongside the silence of stone

Until its calmness can claim you.

Be excessively gentle with yourself.

– John O’Donohue

[Image: Inner Navigation digital artwork by Catrin Welz-Stein.]

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