The return to your body.
It was a statement I didn’t understand. What do you mean -return to my body?
My body feels foreign. My body feels unsafe. My body carries the memories of the past- the mistakes, the wounds, the afflictions the stories I never asked it to remember.
What do you mean return to the body?
Can I feel safe here?
Can I come home to the place I have spent so long trying to leave?
And then…. right then…
I heard a whisper through my heart.
YOU ARE SAFE!!
And suddenly, something within me softened. I felt the weight lift and heard,
What if it was all an illusion.
An illusion passed down from generation to generation, to generation, to generation. The illusion that I am separate from the Love that created me.
The illusion that I am separate from the Divine image and likeness within me. The illusion that safety lives somewhere outside of myself.
But…. Now…
I see it differently. The illusion is dissolving. I remember… I have the POWER to choose.
To choose safety with in sacred. Within the Holy. Within the Love. Within the Grace.
Within…
It was never outside of me. It was always here..
Waiting beneath the stories.
Waiting beneath the Fear.
Waiting beneath everything I had been taught to believe.
And Today, and every day moving forward, I choose to honor my sacred body.
My sacred temple.
My sacred spirit.
I return to myself.
I return to the body that has carried me throughevery lifetime of becoming.
I return to the breath.
To the heartbeat.
To the living, breathing miracle of being here.
And I walk upon Mother Earth;
I feel her heartbeat beneath my feet.
Grounding me.
Nourishing me.
Loving me.
Supporting me.
My heartbeat with her heartbeat.
One rhythm.
One pulse.
One remembering.
Wind;
Oh the wind that moves through my hair, whispering,
You, too, can share your voice without diminishing the beauty of who you are. Your voice is meant to be heard. Speak, Sing Shout to the Heavens, as Spirit is listening.
You wer never meant to hide your color, your radiance, your wisdom.
You were never meant to become smaller to make others comfortable.
You were created to be uniquely you..
Vibant
Beautiful
Wholly.
Water;
The ocean. The river. The streams.
Flowing around me, Flowing through me, Glimmering with light, Shimmering with the reflection of Spirit.
Sacred Waters- remind me:
Honor the flow of life.
Do not cling to what is ready to move. Do not force what is asking to flow. Trust the current. Trust the journey. Trust the movement of becoming.
Grandfather Sun;
Shining so brightly, teaching me to rise,
Rise High.
Rise Joyfully.
Rise warmly.
Rise confidently.
To let my light be seen.
Grandmother Moon;
She knows.
She guides.
She watches over the unfolding.
She reminds me that every phase belongs.
The fullness. The darkness. The becoming.The release. The return.
Nothing is wrong with the seasons of our lives. They are all sacred. They are all necessary. They are all part of the great remembering.
So YES…
I return to my body.
I return to the Earth.
I return to the elements.
I return to my Breath.
I return to my Heartbeat.
I return to the Oneness of all that is and ever will be.
And I remember …
The Love that created me lives within me. The sacred lives within me. The Divine lives within me.
Grace moves through me.
And this body- I once feared, this body I once abandoned, this body I once believed was separate from me.
Is my temple.
My vessel.
My home.
My sacred place of remembering.
So I come home - I come home to my body. I come home to myself, I come home to Love.
From this day forward, I will let Love be my guiding light. Not outside of me. Not above me. Not below me. not somewhere I have to become worthy if reaching…
But HERE…. Within
Always Within.
I am here
I am safe
I am sacred
I am LOVE
