What I've noticed with shifts in consciousness is that they come in a wave, hitting land first for certain people and others later. Often I experience something as one of those first wavers that I can then share with friends and clients as a guide for what they are going through or are about to.
Last week there was a strong wave of completion...a string of dreams about past phases of my life, symbolically showing me they are done, complete, including graduating with my Masters degree. (which I did in 3D reality back in 1984).
I feel like a whole new life-not necessarily a new location, brand new career--is beginning to emerge.
This new reality is more heart centered and is based on being in my personal sovereignty, while honoring the sovereignty of others. That means communicating, making plans, living from what is true-here and now--not out of roles, obligations, shoulds, or making another feel guilty or wrong
for their individual desires, needs or preferences. It takes a lot more present-moment awareness, so that you can feel into what is so, what is true, what is real rather than going on assumptions or automatic pilot.
Personal sovereignty--being the queen of your domain, whether it's your body, your work, your home, your sexuality, your relationships--is up big time. I gave someone the Personal Sovereignty repatterning last week--one of the new repatterning series I am writing--and it was off the charts
powerful for her.
Let me know if you would like that kind of radical evolution support with a one-on-one personal sovereignty session.
A friend who is also a first-waver called today to share her breakthrough about a pattern of putting up with other people's negativity--even severe verbal abuse--and always holding space for them to be in their highest good at her own expense. That came from a belief system that tolerating, even taking in rather than "tossing back" the ball of poison, is the "nice" or "spiritual" thing to do.
We both agreed, it's graduation time....life going to a whole new level. Dysfunctionality, abuse, using power against another....when we say no to it, as we name the truth and no longer participate in the old dynamics of blaming ourselves, internalizing abuse, making excuses for intolerable behavior...this is how we are going to collectively birth a new world.
Hoorah!
Wishing you the joy and liberation of discovering, stepping into and living your own sovereign
truth of being,
Ellen
PS Joyful Manifesting begins this week on the 12th. Use the concentrated power of this program to make a shift in any area of your life--finding your voice, affirming the value of your work, making some healthy habit changes, growing your business, attracting new clients. Register by midnight
tomorrow at http://www.joyfulmanifesting.com.
Showing posts with label women's empowerment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women's empowerment. Show all posts
Monday, March 10, 2014
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Anorexia of the Spirit / Dear Woman
Dear Woman,
How would you live, if you knew you were beautiful and loved beyond any doubt?
How would you live, if you knew the rounded shape of your body was what nature intended,
That your body was meant to sing out in pleasure,
That NOTHING about it is wrong, or shameful or something to hide.
How would it be to enjoy, to savor and to celebrate in public, your healthy appetite, for food, for life, for sex, to be seen, felt, heard and touched?
How would you live if you could open your throat, your heart and your womb and let your own voice ring out, with passion, saying “YES” to all that makes you feel sensual and alive, and at one with the living earth--to making love with life?
How would you speak if the words “SORRY” or “I just____” or “Excuse me” died on your lips?
How would you occupy your body and your space at the dinner or the conference table?
How would you live if you were free to create, without the nagging voice of judgement?
How would you walk down a street, into a meeting with men or onto a stage-- if you knew that everything you birth is a blessing to this world: babies, art, great meals, poems, brilliant teachings, a wave of hope in the life of another, schools and companies and books and sacred gatherings?
Love,
Your Mother Father God
(c) Ellen Shapiro 2013
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Thursday, March 21, 2013
Confident, Clear and Courageous--this Saturday!
Do you, like many women, have an inner nag who says “Who do you think you are?” or “What’s so special about you?” Does being critical, harsh or judgemental towards yourself take you out, or slow you down? Maybe you don’t ever feel good enough, or like you still don’t know enough. You keep running on the hamster wheel, getting nowhere, despite getting more advice or a new marketing strategy. You keep looking for something from outside for that missing ingredient to success.
Your biggest obstacle may NOT be a lack of ideas, a shortage of information, a weak business model, or a failure to adopt some hot new technology.
It could simply be a lack of confidence.
In my fre*e seminar this coming Saturday, I'll be talking about the two tracks to confidence. INNER CONFIDENCE is expressed from the inside out, based on how you feel about yourself, your inner self-image, and your self-talk.
OUTER CONFIDENCE is the kind that shows in your body language and your voice. It shows in how you walk and move, and in the ways you express yourself—clearly, warmly and self-assured, without hiding or apologizing. A cool tip: You can use OUTER confidence to grow INNER confidence. Ask any performer or public speaker!
How do you benefit from being more confident?
It can help you in business, whether you own your business or work for a company. It can help you be more of a magnet, to attract potential dating interest and new friends, to be someone others want to be around.
With more confidence, you feel better about yourself, value your work more, express yourself more clearly and with more impact. You can get media attention, build a following, and bring in more clients. You will:
∙ Know, and be able to say, what is special and unique about you
∙ Be clear about the results your clients have and that your work makes a difference in people’s lives.
∙ Create services, programs and content that shine with quality and value, and market them with enthusiasm.
∙ Let go of having to be perfect and putting off your success.
∙ Feel more at ease sharing your expertise as you relax into being yourself.
∙ Have more ‘presence’ and enjoy more attention-people remember you.
∙ Gain more of that “know-like-trust” factor that builds an audience and draws clients.
∙ Enjoy marketing as a conversation and opportunity to connect with others.
Your work, your life, just being you--becomes a whole lot more fun and satisfying. How good can it get?
Confidence blessings,
Ellen
PS Could you--and other friends or family members use more confidence? If that sounds good, PLEASE join me this Saturday at 4pm Eastern and tell others!
Remember you must register on two different pages for the details for the Summit and the call I'm leading on Saturday 4pm Eastern. go to www.repatterningworldsummit.com.
See you on the call...looking forward to it.
Confidence blessings,
Ellen
Your biggest obstacle may NOT be a lack of ideas, a shortage of information, a weak business model, or a failure to adopt some hot new technology.
It could simply be a lack of confidence.
In my fre*e seminar this coming Saturday, I'll be talking about the two tracks to confidence. INNER CONFIDENCE is expressed from the inside out, based on how you feel about yourself, your inner self-image, and your self-talk.
OUTER CONFIDENCE is the kind that shows in your body language and your voice. It shows in how you walk and move, and in the ways you express yourself—clearly, warmly and self-assured, without hiding or apologizing. A cool tip: You can use OUTER confidence to grow INNER confidence. Ask any performer or public speaker!
How do you benefit from being more confident?
It can help you in business, whether you own your business or work for a company. It can help you be more of a magnet, to attract potential dating interest and new friends, to be someone others want to be around.
With more confidence, you feel better about yourself, value your work more, express yourself more clearly and with more impact. You can get media attention, build a following, and bring in more clients. You will:
∙ Know, and be able to say, what is special and unique about you
∙ Be clear about the results your clients have and that your work makes a difference in people’s lives.
∙ Create services, programs and content that shine with quality and value, and market them with enthusiasm.
∙ Let go of having to be perfect and putting off your success.
∙ Feel more at ease sharing your expertise as you relax into being yourself.
∙ Have more ‘presence’ and enjoy more attention-people remember you.
∙ Gain more of that “know-like-trust” factor that builds an audience and draws clients.
∙ Enjoy marketing as a conversation and opportunity to connect with others.
Your work, your life, just being you--becomes a whole lot more fun and satisfying. How good can it get?
Confidence blessings,
Ellen
PS Could you--and other friends or family members use more confidence? If that sounds good, PLEASE join me this Saturday at 4pm Eastern and tell others!
Remember you must register on two different pages for the details for the Summit and the call I'm leading on Saturday 4pm Eastern. go to www.repatterningworldsummit.com.
See you on the call...looking forward to it.
Confidence blessings,
Ellen
Saturday, March 16, 2013
Wow: Resonance Repatterning World Summit (fr*ee)
I'm so excited...you will be too, if you join us....Resonance Repatterning, the main modality I've used to create powerful transformations for myself and thousands of clients, is stepping out onto the world stage with a weeklong free telesummit.
Experience sessions on all kinds of topics, all for free! My session is coming up on Saturday March 23, at 4pm Eastern, and it's called "Confident, Clear and Courageous". Could you use some more of that, for your relationships, career and business?
Please spread the word! Help us reach more people with this powerful work...it begins in just 2 days. To join , go here...you must sign up on this page to get all the details: www.repatterningworldsummit.com.
My website is www.repattern.com.
See you at the Summit?
Experience sessions on all kinds of topics, all for free! My session is coming up on Saturday March 23, at 4pm Eastern, and it's called "Confident, Clear and Courageous". Could you use some more of that, for your relationships, career and business?
Please spread the word! Help us reach more people with this powerful work...it begins in just 2 days. To join , go here...you must sign up on this page to get all the details: www.repatterningworldsummit.com.
My website is www.repattern.com.
See you at the Summit?
Thursday, February 14, 2013
Rise Up O Women O Sisters O Guardians of the Goddess in men and women’s bodies.
Today many bear witness to the suffering of girls and women from violence and abuse. Around the world we speak, dance, read poems, act in plays, to attest to this horror, to declare that it must stop NOW.
We understand well that this is the result of patriarchy and a deliberate systematic disempowering of women. This is part of the disconnection of humanity from the natural world and the force of life itself which women carry as the birth-givers.
None of this is news. We’ve had 8-10 thousand years of this. What’s sad and shocking is that despite women’s great progress in some ways and in some parts of the world, this level of violence and terrorism against women continues. It is hard to measure since so much of this goes on unreported and unseen in the privacy of women’s lives, but could it be that it’s even increasing? Is this a backlash against the rising of women in so many countries and continents? Or is it simply that in our world of instant global communication this long buried well of pain and suffering is finally coming to light?
It doesn’t really matter. What’s important is that it's being talked about, that we are rising, that we are rising TOGETHER, and saying “Enough!”
There’s another conversation that needs to happen too--about how women themselves perpetuate the oppression of other women. Not through physical violence but through the way we project jealous and competitive thoughts and emotions towards each other.
We envy the one who’s thinner or more beautiful, we compare ourselves to impossible standards of beauty and find ourselves lacking. We compete for attention, men, money and power. I have often heard women, as well as men, affirm that women are catty and can’t be trusted.
If we’ve had the experience of being put down or torn down by our mothers, sisters, female classmates or coworkers, then we have even more evidence that women are not safe to be around and we can’t rely on them for support.
There are so many ways this insidious turning of women against each other can happen. How do YOU perpetuate this?
An ancient strategy-- divide and conquer-- is a very effective way to disempower any group of people and keep them fearful and separate.
I am NOT blaming the victim here. In fact, recognizing how we as women participate in our own disempowerment is our point of power. We can start to recognize the part we’ve been playing and take the steps to correct these patterns of competing, putting down, and failing to support other women. We can look at any places where we have failed to stand up for each other, and where we have sold ourselves and each other out in order to gain or keep the peace with men, even at a great cost.
I ask you to imagine now a world where mothers, teachers and all women feel safe in the world, where we are free of the fears of violence, rape, unwanted pregnancy, abuse and exploitation. Where mothers raise their daughters—and their sons, to cherish, honor, and celebrate the Feminine. Where women appreciate their own unique form of beauty, and the many expressions of the Divine Feminine through the whole range of women’s body shapes and sizes.
Imagine a world—it was birthed today--where women gather to celebrate, honor, appreciate, love, accept and welcome each other, exactly as we are. Take a minute to envision this, and then feel it in your body, dance it, move it, meditate on it.
I leave you with a very simple practice, one of the core practices of the Art of Feminine Presence to make this vision manifest in the world. Take the next three days to tell other women what you appreciate about them.
This beautiful movement of 1 billion rising….carry the seeds forward with this simple practice of appreciating other women.
Together, we WILL change the world.
Happy V-day to you and all of us with love,
Ellen
Today many bear witness to the suffering of girls and women from violence and abuse. Around the world we speak, dance, read poems, act in plays, to attest to this horror, to declare that it must stop NOW.
We understand well that this is the result of patriarchy and a deliberate systematic disempowering of women. This is part of the disconnection of humanity from the natural world and the force of life itself which women carry as the birth-givers.
None of this is news. We’ve had 8-10 thousand years of this. What’s sad and shocking is that despite women’s great progress in some ways and in some parts of the world, this level of violence and terrorism against women continues. It is hard to measure since so much of this goes on unreported and unseen in the privacy of women’s lives, but could it be that it’s even increasing? Is this a backlash against the rising of women in so many countries and continents? Or is it simply that in our world of instant global communication this long buried well of pain and suffering is finally coming to light?
It doesn’t really matter. What’s important is that it's being talked about, that we are rising, that we are rising TOGETHER, and saying “Enough!”
There’s another conversation that needs to happen too--about how women themselves perpetuate the oppression of other women. Not through physical violence but through the way we project jealous and competitive thoughts and emotions towards each other.
We envy the one who’s thinner or more beautiful, we compare ourselves to impossible standards of beauty and find ourselves lacking. We compete for attention, men, money and power. I have often heard women, as well as men, affirm that women are catty and can’t be trusted.
If we’ve had the experience of being put down or torn down by our mothers, sisters, female classmates or coworkers, then we have even more evidence that women are not safe to be around and we can’t rely on them for support.
There are so many ways this insidious turning of women against each other can happen. How do YOU perpetuate this?
An ancient strategy-- divide and conquer-- is a very effective way to disempower any group of people and keep them fearful and separate.
I am NOT blaming the victim here. In fact, recognizing how we as women participate in our own disempowerment is our point of power. We can start to recognize the part we’ve been playing and take the steps to correct these patterns of competing, putting down, and failing to support other women. We can look at any places where we have failed to stand up for each other, and where we have sold ourselves and each other out in order to gain or keep the peace with men, even at a great cost.
I ask you to imagine now a world where mothers, teachers and all women feel safe in the world, where we are free of the fears of violence, rape, unwanted pregnancy, abuse and exploitation. Where mothers raise their daughters—and their sons, to cherish, honor, and celebrate the Feminine. Where women appreciate their own unique form of beauty, and the many expressions of the Divine Feminine through the whole range of women’s body shapes and sizes.
Imagine a world—it was birthed today--where women gather to celebrate, honor, appreciate, love, accept and welcome each other, exactly as we are. Take a minute to envision this, and then feel it in your body, dance it, move it, meditate on it.
I leave you with a very simple practice, one of the core practices of the Art of Feminine Presence to make this vision manifest in the world. Take the next three days to tell other women what you appreciate about them.
This beautiful movement of 1 billion rising….carry the seeds forward with this simple practice of appreciating other women.
Together, we WILL change the world.
Happy V-day to you and all of us with love,
Ellen
Monday, December 17, 2012
Sacred Womb Space Healing Meditation
Seeding the New Earth, 12/22/12: Sacred Womb Space Activation & Healing Meditation
Align and attune your body with the power, grace and magic of the Divine Feminine. We will do this through gentle yet profound practices from the Art of Feminine Presence. Together, in safety and a space of blessing, we’ll make a deep contact with our womb space--the source of life, creativity and regeneration.
We'll let go of whatever needs to be released. We'll take in compassion, healing and joyful inspiration for our lives and for the seeding and birthing of the new Earth.
Time: Noon, Eastern time, 12/22/12. Dial in to: +1 559-546-1301 Access code: 279607
Align and attune your body with the power, grace and magic of the Divine Feminine. We will do this through gentle yet profound practices from the Art of Feminine Presence. Together, in safety and a space of blessing, we’ll make a deep contact with our womb space--the source of life, creativity and regeneration.
We'll let go of whatever needs to be released. We'll take in compassion, healing and joyful inspiration for our lives and for the seeding and birthing of the new Earth.
Time: Noon, Eastern time, 12/22/12. Dial in to: +1 559-546-1301 Access code: 279607
Monday, September 19, 2011
Are You Taking Up Too Much Room?
Probably not—but in the name of being polite or “nice”, you may be acting like you do. Certain automatic habits, like constantly apologizing, shrink your presence and energy field unnecessarily. Women are especially trained to apologize almost constantly, but we are all subject to this sorry epidemic.
I noticed this in two incidents this weekend. First, standing around my kitchen at home, my guest kept apologizing for being in my way, making dirty dishes, etc. Finally I said, “why are you sorry? All you’re doing is being here..and you are welcome in my kitchen.. no need to apologize."
Even more blatantly, last night, at a friend’s house, another guest needed to use the sink which I happened to be leaning against. He said, “I’m sorry but I need to get in there.”
Again, I asked “why are you saying sorry? It’s okay to need something. All you needed to do was say excuse me."
Even the phrase "excuse me" is self effacing.
It’s this reflex of apologizing…for asking someone else to move, to do something for you, for “being in the way"..I think it trains us to put ourselves down or act like what we should be is invisible.
Does being polite mean apologizing for our existence?
We are trained to put others first, but do we have to cut ourselves out of the picture altogether with our “don’t mind me, I’m just trying to exist in as small a box as possible” apology habit?
What do you think?
I noticed this in two incidents this weekend. First, standing around my kitchen at home, my guest kept apologizing for being in my way, making dirty dishes, etc. Finally I said, “why are you sorry? All you’re doing is being here..and you are welcome in my kitchen.. no need to apologize."
Even more blatantly, last night, at a friend’s house, another guest needed to use the sink which I happened to be leaning against. He said, “I’m sorry but I need to get in there.”
Again, I asked “why are you saying sorry? It’s okay to need something. All you needed to do was say excuse me."
Even the phrase "excuse me" is self effacing.
It’s this reflex of apologizing…for asking someone else to move, to do something for you, for “being in the way"..I think it trains us to put ourselves down or act like what we should be is invisible.
Does being polite mean apologizing for our existence?
We are trained to put others first, but do we have to cut ourselves out of the picture altogether with our “don’t mind me, I’m just trying to exist in as small a box as possible” apology habit?
What do you think?
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