What a concept! Staying home and giving myself time and space to be with myself, to meditate, write in my diary and BE. It has felt so nurturing and refreshing. I highly recommend it!
It's also a relief to use the tools and teachings I know, for myself, to move out of spinning my wheels--I've been stuck for quite a while now about the new direction and expansion of my work.
Yesterday I finally sat in Remembrance, a Sufi meditative practice, that I've been studiously avoiding for weeks. This practice, which comes from Sufism but has much wider applications to anyone with a spiritual bent--is a gift I learned from Mark Silver, a wonderful teacher of business and spirituality.
During the Remembrance practice, I received wonderful loving support from the all-knowing One within me and began to relax and soften into a more receptive mode. I added to this another dimension of the practice, giving myself my “jewel” as Mark calls it. Your jewel is an essential quality that others receive from your presence, that soul-essence light that radiates from you whatever you are doing. It is also usually something that you yourself need and value. One of my jewels is tenderness. Instead of continuing to (mentally) wail on myself for my lack of action and clarity, I gently caressed my cheek and soothed the parts of me that have been at war with myself.
I realized that I am tired, and while I have plenty of active fun in my new life in Santa Fe (hallelujah!), I have not had a restful vacation, non-working solitary retreat or even a one-day get away in a long, long time.
That part of me that says "I need a vacation..I need a break and fresh perspective..or simply to stop working for the day" gets louder and louder, and may start to whine and sabotage anything I try to do for work. Until I hear it and address its concerns. (Does that sound like any two year olds you know? Well that part of me is probably about that old!)
When I try to do creative work or start new things from a place of depletion, it just doesn't work. In the old days I would simply force and struggle and not enjoy what I was creating. I simply cannot do that any more. The part of me that is now aligned and resonating with feeling good, having pleasure, doing what I love, won’t let me!
If I don’t listen to those messages, which still happens—or try to override them, I just get stuck and unhappy and sabotage or procrastinate any efforts I do make.
I have to smile, as I look at the pattern, since for me, whatever I wish to teach others, I first must live it (and sometimes re-live it). My new focus is on supporting self-employed women to nourish themselves as they grow their business, so guess what I need to do? Follow my own homework and listen to my own teachings! Keeps a girl honest…:-)
So, I’m looking at my vacation plans for the next 6 weeks, and also seeing some other ways I can nurture myself with down time, time outside and mini getaways.
I haven't even done much about it yet--but I notice that just by hearing my inner needy child and rebellious teenager and promising to get them what they need, the creative juice is back!
It works, this self-love thang! It really really does. That old Protestant work ethic, nose to the grindstone mentality, not so much.
Could you remind me next time I forget?
I’m so well-trained—you too?--that when I have a “problem” with work to just keep going, to solve the stuckness mentally or overcome it with the force of my will. To wail away at the stuck place. Funny how that doesn’t work—you know, “What you resist persists…”. Taking a break, moving my body around, going into another room to change perspective or getting outside..changing the channel and getting the energy moving through play, connecting with another person or my inner guidance—that’s how the logjam breaks up. By asking myself, what do I really need? By being gentle and paying attention, whether it's rest or play or connection...Getting unstuck with a caress or a giggle, not a hammer!
PS If you want to learn more about Mark Silver's teachings, his website is www.heartofbusiness.com and he generously allows you to download the first three chapters of his content rich book--including instructions on the Remembrance practice.
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Monday, May 3, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Full moon greetings!
We are having another wave of powerful planetary shifts lately..are you feeling it? For some it is peaceful and joyful, others are struggling with physical challenges, and many people in my life are doing core-level, deep belief clearing and shifting.
What are you experiencing?
According to several sources, some major globeshift energy arrived over the Spring Equinox--last weekend--and now we are integrating that. We just had the full moon in Libra last night--shining light on relationship and partnership patterns--and the holiday of Passover began, with its emphasis on liberation from Mitzrayim. I really like that word, because it not only refers to Egypt, where the Jews were enslaved, but also to narrow, constricted places. And of course it is also Easter, which many do not realize is closely linked to Passover because the last supper was a Passover Seder! So, a time of death and rebirth, letting go and resurrection.
This is a time when so many of us are truly becoming free of patterns, beliefs, outmoded ways of relating that have kept up limited and constricted. It's also time when so many of us are asking, "What kind of life, and what kind of world do I want to help create and participate in?"
I am feeling extremely grateful these days, for the repatterning that is going on for me around relationships, and for the many wonderful new people and experiences that have come into my life since moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in June of 2008. Wow. I am happily making plans for my first real garden ever, as the dry windy spring begins to warm up and hint of summer ahead.
For those of you going through a time of loss, a dark night of the soul, health challenges or other difficult shifts, my heart goes out to you. I have been there too..I would say most of the last 10 years I've been dealing with such things, and in other periods of my life as well.
What I can say is the dawn arrives when we least expect it. It arrives in its own mysterious timing. Things can shift in an instant, just as the ground looks barren and frozen, and one day the green shoots are just there. Stay open, keep asking for grace, and relax in the knowledge that you are loved. I can't remember now where I read this but "Miracles always follow chaos!"
I recently was initiated as a giver of the Oneness Blessing, formerly called Deeksha, for the purpose of being a clearer channel for the Divine, and to assist clients and others in their spiritual evolution. (as well as my own!). I feel some positive shifts and more love and connection already, and I know I am still integrating this. I will be letting you know how I plan to offer this as it can be done by distance via intention as soon as I am clear.
I have another round of events coming up--here is a sneak preview. First, I'll lead a free teleclass on a prosperity topic a few days before we go into the next Joyful Manifesting Intensive, 5 days beginning on April 14th. This program can be done by anyone from anywhere as it is not phone or internet based. For you loyal fans who have reaped great breakthroughs and manifestations from past Intensives--mark your calendars and sign up now at www.joyfulmanifesting.com.
Many blessings and joyful manifesting to you,
Ellen
What are you experiencing?
According to several sources, some major globeshift energy arrived over the Spring Equinox--last weekend--and now we are integrating that. We just had the full moon in Libra last night--shining light on relationship and partnership patterns--and the holiday of Passover began, with its emphasis on liberation from Mitzrayim. I really like that word, because it not only refers to Egypt, where the Jews were enslaved, but also to narrow, constricted places. And of course it is also Easter, which many do not realize is closely linked to Passover because the last supper was a Passover Seder! So, a time of death and rebirth, letting go and resurrection.
This is a time when so many of us are truly becoming free of patterns, beliefs, outmoded ways of relating that have kept up limited and constricted. It's also time when so many of us are asking, "What kind of life, and what kind of world do I want to help create and participate in?"
I am feeling extremely grateful these days, for the repatterning that is going on for me around relationships, and for the many wonderful new people and experiences that have come into my life since moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico in June of 2008. Wow. I am happily making plans for my first real garden ever, as the dry windy spring begins to warm up and hint of summer ahead.
For those of you going through a time of loss, a dark night of the soul, health challenges or other difficult shifts, my heart goes out to you. I have been there too..I would say most of the last 10 years I've been dealing with such things, and in other periods of my life as well.
What I can say is the dawn arrives when we least expect it. It arrives in its own mysterious timing. Things can shift in an instant, just as the ground looks barren and frozen, and one day the green shoots are just there. Stay open, keep asking for grace, and relax in the knowledge that you are loved. I can't remember now where I read this but "Miracles always follow chaos!"
I recently was initiated as a giver of the Oneness Blessing, formerly called Deeksha, for the purpose of being a clearer channel for the Divine, and to assist clients and others in their spiritual evolution. (as well as my own!). I feel some positive shifts and more love and connection already, and I know I am still integrating this. I will be letting you know how I plan to offer this as it can be done by distance via intention as soon as I am clear.
I have another round of events coming up--here is a sneak preview. First, I'll lead a free teleclass on a prosperity topic a few days before we go into the next Joyful Manifesting Intensive, 5 days beginning on April 14th. This program can be done by anyone from anywhere as it is not phone or internet based. For you loyal fans who have reaped great breakthroughs and manifestations from past Intensives--mark your calendars and sign up now at www.joyfulmanifesting.com.
Many blessings and joyful manifesting to you,
Ellen
Friday, January 29, 2010
Breakfast with God
I just received this fascinating email from Maureen Moss, creator of the World Puja online community.
Enjoy the reading..and I like this idea of picking three high vibration words to describe ourselves, representing qualities that we would "wear" if we were going to have brunch with our creator.
what would you pick? mine are Loving/Focused/Compassionate.
Many blessings,
Ellen
Here's her article:
"This year I began a year long class on "Mastering Alchemy." Included in this class is a strong emphasis on "Living Words." Given a list of more than 100 words and traits that carry a very high vibration, we are asked to choose and live three of the words and traits daily. It's a very powerful practice. Anyway...
Nearing the end of last week's class we were asked to choose and embody three words (without thinking) that we would "wear" if we were going to lunch with the Creator. I chose the words powerful, gracious and kind. (No thought.)
I went to sleep having the image in mind and heart of God, and me together, at lunch. Upon awakening, I entered my morning meditation (with journal and pen next to me,) and guess who joined me? God.
I felt the presence that I have come to know as God, 'come over me' before the words were telepathically impressed upon my consciousness. "Would you like to have breakfast with Me?" I simply smiled from the inside out and said, "I would love to." I noticed, very quickly, that I was still embodying the living words powerful, gracious and kind. Upon consciously noticing my state of being, a burst of Love palpably moved through my heart. I had the sensation that God was mirroring me, by being powerful, gracious and kind, to me.
I spoke my feelings about that out loud and here, in part, is what I received about each of you and the year ahead.
"You have just experienced, 'there is only One of us.' I have long told you that you will only teach that which you experience. You yourself needed this reminder, so you could remind the many. Who you are, is who I Am. How you Be is how I Be. How you love Me is how I love you. We are One.
Now you have a deeper awareness of why I ask all of you to create time for Me daily and come to me open-hearted and filled with love. Only through love and intentional contact can you access Me, hear Me, feel Me, know Me, collaborate with Me and make your way gracefully through your life; particularly through this next year.
Humanity is well within the energy field of 2012. Make no mistake about it, and do not take this lightly. What has been written thus far about 2012 has engaged many minds, now you must engage your hearts, so you will not miss what you have incarnated for, which includes meeting many Beings of Higher Consciousness that you have had a 'through the veils' experience with.
The timeline of the third dimension has collapsed, more quickly than anticipated. Your Beloved Mother Earth is in a most fragile state and has chosen to birth her ascended state now. She is doing so in great part to move herself up to her next level of consciousness, as she is dying in the former one, and in great part to push each of you into your next level of consciousness, for you too are dying in your former one.
The year ahead will be the most fascinating of any that you have had in your human experience, Beloveds. From meeting your space brothers and sisters, Archangels and Angels, to the many moments of alchemy and magic, apparent tragedy and transcendence, each of you will live the year in front of you being beckoned moment by moment to choose love or to choose fear, purposefully.
Your state of consciousness is being put to every test now, and for good reason. What you choose in each moment will determine where you will live in the new order outside of time. Whatever you choose is where you will be, and where you will be will mirror that which you choose.
The new earth is mandated to be duality and polarity free. The same is true for each of you in order that you ascend. You have been told before, via the one that writes this, that you are positioned to become heroes in a transition stage. Only through love stabilized, and consistency and communion with Me, are you able to hold the frequency of the new Earth and the fifth dimension without falling back into another deep sleep of separation.
You are each surrounded by vast Legions of Light Beings of the highest order that are positioned to help you as well. Each ask that you strengthen your rapport with them, ask for what you need, participate in your ascension and claim your victory.
It is also true that energies of a Dark nature still linger, attempting to win your affection. Circumstances are ripe for them to enter your lives each time you choose fear over love, regardless of any experience you are in the midst of. Come and sit with Me and I will tell you the Truth about any of your experiences, if you will listen with an open mind.
You will be well served if your stories that you continue to claim as the reason for your despair and malfunction have Light cast upon them, rather than the mortal mind's repetitive shadows. In the Light you will see Truth. In the Light and Love of Truth, along with your devotion to your shift, you are made capable of transmuting patterns of fear, patterns of repetition, change genetic coding, alter your DNA, and shift your entire ancestral lineage.
"How am I to do that," you might ask, "when I am jobless, uncertain, and my abundance is dwindling?" You choose to stop believing that you are jobless or without abundance and you will stand in the middle of your own transformation.
Be of good service to others, and you will have a job. Give and you will receive. That is the Law and the Promise. You have no need for the details. It is already written. Trust Me, or trust your mind. You choose.
Humanity has had a perception challenge for millennia. Stop perceiving anything. Let the former notions and perceptions seep out of you until you are empty. Empty. And when you are empty, I will fill you up with the nectar of a God, not a human playing small, but a God playing Big. You choose. Yes I know this is a big stretch for many. So be it. Stretch and empty yourselves, and see what you find. You have nothing to lose but a state of mind that has killed off many a Truth.
Choose love and love is what you will get. Take your mind out of everything it has formerly invaded.
Where you take notice of a conflicted nature, sit down and breathe. Connect to The Great Central Sun and the crystalline grid of Mother Earth, with your breath. Learn how to run stabilized energy through your bodies as easily as you put food into your mouth. Get into your body and compose yourself. Come to Me and I will lead you back to yourself and prepare you to enter a Higher Order outside of time.
I have told you this before and I tell it to you again. You are Gods in human form. You are loved beyond your deepest imaginings. You are My heart beating, and I love you.
Believe Me and come forth."
Copyright Maureen Moss 2010. Please feel comfortable to share this with others. I ask that you include my name and websites as this is part of a greater body of work.
http://www.worldpuja.org
http://www.maureenmoss.com
Enjoy the reading..and I like this idea of picking three high vibration words to describe ourselves, representing qualities that we would "wear" if we were going to have brunch with our creator.
what would you pick? mine are Loving/Focused/Compassionate.
Many blessings,
Ellen
Here's her article:
"This year I began a year long class on "Mastering Alchemy." Included in this class is a strong emphasis on "Living Words." Given a list of more than 100 words and traits that carry a very high vibration, we are asked to choose and live three of the words and traits daily. It's a very powerful practice. Anyway...
Nearing the end of last week's class we were asked to choose and embody three words (without thinking) that we would "wear" if we were going to lunch with the Creator. I chose the words powerful, gracious and kind. (No thought.)
I went to sleep having the image in mind and heart of God, and me together, at lunch. Upon awakening, I entered my morning meditation (with journal and pen next to me,) and guess who joined me? God.
I felt the presence that I have come to know as God, 'come over me' before the words were telepathically impressed upon my consciousness. "Would you like to have breakfast with Me?" I simply smiled from the inside out and said, "I would love to." I noticed, very quickly, that I was still embodying the living words powerful, gracious and kind. Upon consciously noticing my state of being, a burst of Love palpably moved through my heart. I had the sensation that God was mirroring me, by being powerful, gracious and kind, to me.
I spoke my feelings about that out loud and here, in part, is what I received about each of you and the year ahead.
"You have just experienced, 'there is only One of us.' I have long told you that you will only teach that which you experience. You yourself needed this reminder, so you could remind the many. Who you are, is who I Am. How you Be is how I Be. How you love Me is how I love you. We are One.
Now you have a deeper awareness of why I ask all of you to create time for Me daily and come to me open-hearted and filled with love. Only through love and intentional contact can you access Me, hear Me, feel Me, know Me, collaborate with Me and make your way gracefully through your life; particularly through this next year.
Humanity is well within the energy field of 2012. Make no mistake about it, and do not take this lightly. What has been written thus far about 2012 has engaged many minds, now you must engage your hearts, so you will not miss what you have incarnated for, which includes meeting many Beings of Higher Consciousness that you have had a 'through the veils' experience with.
The timeline of the third dimension has collapsed, more quickly than anticipated. Your Beloved Mother Earth is in a most fragile state and has chosen to birth her ascended state now. She is doing so in great part to move herself up to her next level of consciousness, as she is dying in the former one, and in great part to push each of you into your next level of consciousness, for you too are dying in your former one.
The year ahead will be the most fascinating of any that you have had in your human experience, Beloveds. From meeting your space brothers and sisters, Archangels and Angels, to the many moments of alchemy and magic, apparent tragedy and transcendence, each of you will live the year in front of you being beckoned moment by moment to choose love or to choose fear, purposefully.
Your state of consciousness is being put to every test now, and for good reason. What you choose in each moment will determine where you will live in the new order outside of time. Whatever you choose is where you will be, and where you will be will mirror that which you choose.
The new earth is mandated to be duality and polarity free. The same is true for each of you in order that you ascend. You have been told before, via the one that writes this, that you are positioned to become heroes in a transition stage. Only through love stabilized, and consistency and communion with Me, are you able to hold the frequency of the new Earth and the fifth dimension without falling back into another deep sleep of separation.
You are each surrounded by vast Legions of Light Beings of the highest order that are positioned to help you as well. Each ask that you strengthen your rapport with them, ask for what you need, participate in your ascension and claim your victory.
It is also true that energies of a Dark nature still linger, attempting to win your affection. Circumstances are ripe for them to enter your lives each time you choose fear over love, regardless of any experience you are in the midst of. Come and sit with Me and I will tell you the Truth about any of your experiences, if you will listen with an open mind.
You will be well served if your stories that you continue to claim as the reason for your despair and malfunction have Light cast upon them, rather than the mortal mind's repetitive shadows. In the Light you will see Truth. In the Light and Love of Truth, along with your devotion to your shift, you are made capable of transmuting patterns of fear, patterns of repetition, change genetic coding, alter your DNA, and shift your entire ancestral lineage.
"How am I to do that," you might ask, "when I am jobless, uncertain, and my abundance is dwindling?" You choose to stop believing that you are jobless or without abundance and you will stand in the middle of your own transformation.
Be of good service to others, and you will have a job. Give and you will receive. That is the Law and the Promise. You have no need for the details. It is already written. Trust Me, or trust your mind. You choose.
Humanity has had a perception challenge for millennia. Stop perceiving anything. Let the former notions and perceptions seep out of you until you are empty. Empty. And when you are empty, I will fill you up with the nectar of a God, not a human playing small, but a God playing Big. You choose. Yes I know this is a big stretch for many. So be it. Stretch and empty yourselves, and see what you find. You have nothing to lose but a state of mind that has killed off many a Truth.
Choose love and love is what you will get. Take your mind out of everything it has formerly invaded.
Where you take notice of a conflicted nature, sit down and breathe. Connect to The Great Central Sun and the crystalline grid of Mother Earth, with your breath. Learn how to run stabilized energy through your bodies as easily as you put food into your mouth. Get into your body and compose yourself. Come to Me and I will lead you back to yourself and prepare you to enter a Higher Order outside of time.
I have told you this before and I tell it to you again. You are Gods in human form. You are loved beyond your deepest imaginings. You are My heart beating, and I love you.
Believe Me and come forth."
Copyright Maureen Moss 2010. Please feel comfortable to share this with others. I ask that you include my name and websites as this is part of a greater body of work.
http://www.worldpuja.org
http://www.maureenmoss.com
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Welcome to Heart's Abode!
With love, gratitude and respect--I welcome you to Heart's Abode. Thank you for joining me here.
My purpose is to inspire and uplift you, to make the journey of healing, self-discovery and spiritual growth fun and rewarding. I have plenty to share with you from my own experience, from my work with clients, and my full-to-the-brim toolkit. I also want to share resources that have helped me. And last but not least, I see this as a space for like-minded community building.
This blog has been germinating for quite a while--trust the process, Ellen--and finally the seedling has pushed itself above ground!
Why "Heart's Abode?" For a few reasons...an abode to me is a place of safe dwelling. A Buddhist prayer says "May all beings dwell in the heart. May they be free from suffering." In the Hindu tradition, a person bows their head and kneels in order to place their heart above their head. Western culture has always valued the mind above the heart, but to play Dr. Phil for a minute, "How's that working for you? (or us as a society?)"
Heart's Abode is also a reference to the heart, that fascinating, mystical organ. We all know that the heart is an incredibly powerful muscle that keeps us alive and brings vital oxygen to our cells. But the heart is much much more than that.
Research now shows that the heart has its own intelligence and the energy field of a human heart can be felt up to 300 feet away!
The heart is also a chakra, or energy center in the body, and it is central to many spiritual paths and teachings. There is so much to say about the heart..and I will, later! But for now, this quote expresses the essence of Heart's Abode very beautifully. It's from one of my spiritual teachers, Bhagawan Nityananda:
"The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam."
As you roam through the abode of this blog, you'll find:
Personal reflections and experiences, including insights from my work with clients who are often my best teachers.
DIY (Do it Yourself)Healing resources: Meditations, imagery, energy exercises, tools and contemplations for you to use in your life. These are intended to empower you as with any other kind of self-help, support and education. Remember that nothing on this site can or is intended to replace getting help from a skilled practitioner as you need it.
Other tools and Resources: Books, products and practitioners that I have personally benefitted from or that come from a trusted source. If I recommend something from which I benefit financially as an affiliate or distributor--which I'll do from time-to-time, I will let you know that.
Spiritual/metaphysical enrichment: Messages from guides, channeled information, yoga and Eastern spirituality. I find astrology to be a very accurate and useful source of insight as well, as interpreted by skilled astrologers (not the kind of "pop" or sun-sign astrology you might find in a daily newspaper). If any of this is new, I invite you to keep an open mind--and of course take what is useful and leave the rest!
Information about my programs and offerings, as well as those of others whose work I value. I assure you this won't be a pitch fest..I want to provide real value and enrichment to you.
So, let the journey of a thousand miles begin with this single step, my first blog post!
Many blessings,
Ellen
My purpose is to inspire and uplift you, to make the journey of healing, self-discovery and spiritual growth fun and rewarding. I have plenty to share with you from my own experience, from my work with clients, and my full-to-the-brim toolkit. I also want to share resources that have helped me. And last but not least, I see this as a space for like-minded community building.
This blog has been germinating for quite a while--trust the process, Ellen--and finally the seedling has pushed itself above ground!
Why "Heart's Abode?" For a few reasons...an abode to me is a place of safe dwelling. A Buddhist prayer says "May all beings dwell in the heart. May they be free from suffering." In the Hindu tradition, a person bows their head and kneels in order to place their heart above their head. Western culture has always valued the mind above the heart, but to play Dr. Phil for a minute, "How's that working for you? (or us as a society?)"
Heart's Abode is also a reference to the heart, that fascinating, mystical organ. We all know that the heart is an incredibly powerful muscle that keeps us alive and brings vital oxygen to our cells. But the heart is much much more than that.
Research now shows that the heart has its own intelligence and the energy field of a human heart can be felt up to 300 feet away!
The heart is also a chakra, or energy center in the body, and it is central to many spiritual paths and teachings. There is so much to say about the heart..and I will, later! But for now, this quote expresses the essence of Heart's Abode very beautifully. It's from one of my spiritual teachers, Bhagawan Nityananda:
"The heart is the hub of all sacred places. Go there and roam."
As you roam through the abode of this blog, you'll find:
Personal reflections and experiences, including insights from my work with clients who are often my best teachers.
DIY (Do it Yourself)Healing resources: Meditations, imagery, energy exercises, tools and contemplations for you to use in your life. These are intended to empower you as with any other kind of self-help, support and education. Remember that nothing on this site can or is intended to replace getting help from a skilled practitioner as you need it.
Other tools and Resources: Books, products and practitioners that I have personally benefitted from or that come from a trusted source. If I recommend something from which I benefit financially as an affiliate or distributor--which I'll do from time-to-time, I will let you know that.
Spiritual/metaphysical enrichment: Messages from guides, channeled information, yoga and Eastern spirituality. I find astrology to be a very accurate and useful source of insight as well, as interpreted by skilled astrologers (not the kind of "pop" or sun-sign astrology you might find in a daily newspaper). If any of this is new, I invite you to keep an open mind--and of course take what is useful and leave the rest!
Information about my programs and offerings, as well as those of others whose work I value. I assure you this won't be a pitch fest..I want to provide real value and enrichment to you.
So, let the journey of a thousand miles begin with this single step, my first blog post!
Many blessings,
Ellen
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