When I was studying hypnotherapy in Santa Fe, New Mexico I went into a Native American instrument store. It was my birthday and as admired the beautiful flutes on the wall one stood out to me. I had never seen a flute like this before, it was in the shape of an A. I went over and picked it up and it was so smooth to the touch. It had ribbons of cherry red wood running through the golden wood. I carried it over to the store owner curious about the nature of the flute.
He smiled and brought it to his lips and began to play. He started by blowing through one side of the flute and he entranced me with his harmony. When I lost myself in the sound and I had forgotten he was only playing half of the flute he deftly began playing in both sides of the flute. Immediately the sound was fuller, more powerful, and even more mesmerizing. The two flutes playing simultaneous notes harmonized and amplified one another. I was carried away in my memories to the energy I feel when I camp in the southwest. To the moments when I look up on a vast night, at a canopy of brilliant stars and the black infinite spaces in between, and I feel a subtly cool breeze and the smell of sage in the air. Vastness…. Openness….. Peacefulness….
His song drew to close and with a smile he handed the flute to me, encouraging me to play with his gesture. I took the flute and immediately smelled the sweetness of the wood. A smell that still lingers to this day. I blew into it and felt my breath streaming out smoothly and evenly. The sound produced was warm and steady. Even my few awkward fingerings for notes sounded better than I imagined they would. I knew that the flute would be my gift to myself.
I handed it back to him and said I would buy it. As he quietly rang me up, he looked up and asked what I was doing in Santa Fe. I told him I was in a hypnotherapy program. He smiled and said with an understanding, a deep knowing that has taken me years to understand at the level I feel he already understood this, “great leaders lead people back to themselves.”
And so today, years later, I have had the fortune of having had many such leaders, aka teachers, including one whose session this morning was very blessing. Panache Desai. He is one of so many who are leading people back to themselves.
And my thoughts for the day may seem harsh in their first few lines, but behind them, is such a respect for others and their paths and timing. And within these words is such a softness and a peacefulness. A steadiness that is infinite in its expansiveness. And this is what it is about for me.
Your choices are none of my business. Your thoughts are none of my business. What you think about me is none of my business.
My business is being me.
My business is connecting with the infinite energy and love of God/spirit/the divine.
My business is dancing, playing in, and enjoying this love.
When I enjoy this love- I am this love.
And a final thought of something I have heard along the way, “what you want for the world, you really want for yourself. What you want from the world, you really want from yourself. ” Which points to the eternal internal truth, if you want to experience external peace, joy, and trust- start from within. It is already in you, take the time to experience this internal light. Give this to yourself.
When you experience this within the world greets you with matching experiences.
Namaste
Cheers:)
February 25th, 2012 | filed in Inspiration, Musings, Uncategorized
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Rest until you remember what you love.
Debora Seidman
When I’m smiling I know I’m doing something right.
Alicia
August 6th, 2011 | filed in Uncategorized
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July 31st, 2011 | filed in Uncategorized
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The silliest thing brought me soooooooo much joy today.
Our thoughts (energy patterns/ vibrations) create our experiences and our perceptions of our experiences. Our experiences seem real. Yet our thoughts are malleable. So what remains as real is the subtle energy of creation that comprises all things, thought and material. -alicia
June 19th, 2011 | filed in Uncategorized
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Release…
It is to breathe.
It is to relax and believe that there is a way out, or a different way, or a better life out there, for you.
It is to know that it won’t happen all at once. What is correct for you, true to you and your spirit and your desires, is still present within you and will resurface. All that is not you, you will let go of. Sometimes as peacefully as a snake sheds its’ old skin. Other times with you actively chipping away at calcified hurts and thoughts like a sculptor removing the rock that covers a masterpiece. It will happen in stages- with each stage allowing you to breathe deeper and experience expansive and freeing love within you longer.
The true you has always been with you- now is the time to stop and listen. Make this your most passionate drive. Stay dedicated to this for at least a few years, anything less is just like peering out of a window and never stepping outside. Put this process, and your faith in guidance, before everything else.
Be open to sensing what you enjoy and what you are drawn to, not what is drawn to you. Stored in your body and higher self is the knowledge of you- your callings and desires. It is up to you to hand guidance over to this side of you. Release what you think is “your” hold on life- and let the truer you begin to lead.
And trust that this unfolding has already begun.
I wrote this to myself years ago when I was in the midst of big challenges, change, and a lot of uncertainty. I just found this again today and it stills rings so true. My life now is a dream- because it fits me. Because I have been true to me I experience so much peacefulness, calm, joy, and inspiration. My outer life is an expression of my inner happiness and acceptance.
March 9th, 2011 | filed in Inspiration, Musings
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Alicia
July 4th, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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Every day and in every way spirit is guiding me back to myself.
Alicia
The world doesn’t need what you do, it needs your energy of aliveness, of joy. The world needs people who are alive. So look within, come alive and live your joy. Be who you are and be amazed at how this harmoniously serves the whole.
June 4th, 2010 | filed in Inspiration, Uncategorized
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In the west…they show us the “on” switch, but they never show us the “off” switch. And so you’re left, especially at the end of a university degree, as a thinking machine at the mercy of only one faculty in the way of getting knowledge. The other faculty, that quiet listening (self hypnosis) and the trust that out of the deeper mind profound answers come, is not taught.
Ajahn Sona in Your Soul’s Compass
Fortunately many people in the west now do teach self hypnosis and meditation. Self hypnosis is the result of the western study of what key components guide a person into a meditative trance state. (Meditation and hypnosis are the same in that the brain waves and relaxation response in the body are identical) This western study of the meditative experience has brought forth trance inducing techniques that are fast, effective, and easy to learn. My boyfriend studied as a monk for seven years and meditated every day. Years later after only weeks of studying hypnosis in Santa Fe he was able to go deeper into meditation (theta and delta brain waves) than he did during all his years of study and practice as a monk.
April 6th, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
March 31st, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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I salute the light within your eyes where the whole universe dwells. For when you are at that center within you and I am at that place within me, we shall be one.
Chief Crazy Horse, Oglala Sioux, 1877
March 27th, 2010 | filed in Uncategorized
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i focus on what i love.