'When the student is ready, the teacher appears.' ~ Buddhist Proverb
I have kept this one tucked within throughout my Journey and its meaning rings clearer the more I live my life while walking in this world ...
The 'Master' who showed up in my life years ago led me through the church and then right back out of it. It took 16 years but in the scheme of things who's counting. It's the way it happened for me. Truth.
The purpose of a master in my life experience has been to show me through the process of removing the limited vision that there is more to see, that my (our) authentic state of being is about living from freedom and mobility, enabling us to go on being creative creators like our Source and multiply by understanding the cycles of life, that life continues on.
Describing it as shifts of my coordinates step by step, moving from once seeing myself as a serf to slowly stepping into the self I Am. Unwrapping The Presence always present in my (our) life as being my 'Higher Self', the Self I Am made in God's presence, the image that stands on tippy toes and presses her cheek against 'God's' and whispers her wondering's through her wanderings in God's ear while cocking my ear to hear the loving response. God responds to Its God made Child of whom we all are. God being a short form word for Giver of Life for All Life.
All this is going on underneath the currents while I am weaving my story and observing it and seeing more, when I am genuinely focused is when I sense I am moving closer and closer to home and can see the lights left on along the path that lead me into it. The light being in me as this was given to me as I was leaving home. All of us were given this light when we came out to walk about in this world ...
'Study nature as the countenance of God.' ~ Charles Kingsley
Life's manual as I have found Nature to be, keeps validating this to be so in my experience ... why? because even a child can understand life cycling around and around by actively participating and observing nature's life cycles while with an actively participating parent.
Positive affirmations are made null and void when we lose our focus of who we are. And focus is not a one specific doing of a thing only idea. It is a combination of sensing, hearing and following the directions of one's soul-voice all working together. This is why it is helpful to have a place to contain what you gather in the experiencing of these things. As in journaling, painting, writing, dancing and so on. We overlook these things because they seem too 'simple' and easy. They are the retrieved artifacts we gather along the way that show us the way to return home, we find these landmarks along the way that say we are heading in the right direction as they were the bread crumbs we dropped while heading away from home. Soul leaving signs and artifacts, mementos of what it experience it was having.
We do not need someone else to tell us how to be us and have an intimate relationship with our Source of Life. Mentors who are worth their weight in gold 'assist' by living with you as you go through life, overseeing and communing with the yet to be experienced ones by showing them how to recognize for one self how to understand the cycles of life so they can recognize the traps, cages and what is poisonous to the young soul and how to avoid them and gain skills to be able to move freely through them and not get stuck, entangled and possibly experience a death to the soul experience. Where one lays down and doesn't get back up. Like animals do with their young exampling how to be self sustaining in nature's garden.
A positive affirmation for one in a far removed from state of knowing one self is like applying oil to water. It doesn't stick, it slides right off and one then feels one is doomed to live a life of desperation of pointlessness. Soul crying out to be redeemed from its ankles being shackled and the river is rising and it is drowning in it. Soul feeling trapped in a cage or reeling from drinking poison. Being uninitiated it does not recognize what is life giving and what is not. I have shared about releasing the focus on the body ... why a dear friend asked in conversation recently ... and I sat in the rocker of my soul and just rocked, letting it sit and rest...
My recent sense to be absent from the topside world was due to my hearing the call to come inside and sit for awhile with the parent-spirit of my soul and at this place in my life, being stripped of almost all outer influences through the normal process of life's cycling in my life experience, I know when to do this and really listen now.
We must disconnect from the physical world in moments to be able to hear our Higher Self speaking or to feel It nurturing us. Nurturing and comforting are not the same things. They are as different as compassion is from sympathy.
Animals when they are threatened or aroused stand still instinctively. They step back and take it in, and do not make hasty choices or decisions.
When we have an over active ego, we tend to be instinct impaired (make rash decisions usually when in an emotional state) and this can be the cause of the ill affects we are experiencing in our life. The time to make healthy choices is not when we are in the midst of experiencing out of control emotions.
I have found that it is the ego that wears down and grows tired as it is the connector and creator of the physical world in my understanding. The spirit in me does not wear down, it is the keeper of the home fires, life in me, the source and giver of my souls life. When my ego-soul grows weary unless I leave my stuff behind and return to where I am from, I can become too much of something. Too tired, too cold, too deadened, too close to feeling an explosion and so on. This is from observing myself throughout the years and observing my patterns and then seeing this play out in others around me.
A process of understanding how to form the words coming from my heart and being able to see it as breath looks like upon the glass in the mirror. We experience moments when we don't see the breath forming upon the glass, an our breath has just about left us feeling in these moments ... take heart.
There is always a way to retrieve what rightfully belongs to each one of us and be home safe within our shells, healthy and actively alive and breathing. By being given insight and understanding through the life cycles of nature that is going on all around us we can know, we can see how to master the unrolling map of our Journey here and begin to experience Joy, Bliss and enjoy the view of the ride.
I felt to begin this thread of sharing the practical processes that can be applied by anyone to retrieve one's shoes (Soul), ones mobility and freedom to be on one's Life way again. Not to tell another what to do, only to share ways that ones can be active in maintaining ones creative soul life, to rekindle the light that seems to have gone out by all the dust that can blow over it and hide it, leaving one to feel abandoned, orphaned, walking as shoeless children on this earth. Souls who feel they have no home to go to, no parents to nurture them or care about or for them.
I am the girl who lost her handmade red shoes and retrieved them and I have come to tell my family all about this Journey from this place of Soul retrieval, to share the love to share the Presence that lingers when shadows are formed in lights fading.
A Journey of the Soul known as Julia. May this gift and bless another to tell their story as well ...
I may write more here or as Beloved Louis has InCouraged me to do, I may just write a book. Yes, Louis, lovingly said in returning.
For now, I am on my way into this day and calling out ~
InJoy this day knowing Love is in your corner,
Namaste`
Julia
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