I Open Myself Up To It And I Listen

Listen. Can you hear it? The music. I can hear it everywhere. In the wind… in the air… in the light. It’s all around us. All you have to do is open yourself up. All you have to do… is listen. ~ August Rush Music soothes the soul, it helps the mind travel, it heals the heart and it empowers the body. Music is a tool that I use daily in my life. I escape to the worlds between the notes, I breathe in the rhythm and the beat, and I soar within the flow of the song. Music carries me to the places my soul longs to visit. It is sometimes the only vehicle I can rely on to take me to these places of peace, beauty, magic and inspiration. It is often a connection between mine and other souls. It reminds me of times and energies that I cherish dearly. I open myself up to it and I listen.

I do hear the music everywhere. Sometimes it is a subtle whisper behind the activities of my day, reminding me and grounding me. Sometimes I pull it right up front and lean into it as it supports me as I face the moments where I am needed to be present, full, wide awake and on. I open myself up to it and I listen.

Each morning I wake to the song of the birds; their voices rising to greet the day. As my daily rituals take shape and form I carry the songs of my ancestors in my heart, humming melodies that are not forgotten. Moving on to my tasks and interacting with the world I hear the music that the dance of the day responds to. I open myself up to it and I listen.

Music, I hear it when I look into my husband’s eyes, when I hear my children’s laughter, when I smell the flowers blooming, when I walk in the wet grass, when I heal the wounded, when I hold your heart tenderly in mine and when I lay back to rest my body into dreams. I open myself up to it and I listen.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT Lisa Meade 2013

Simple Ripples

The most important things in life are neither extraordinary nor grandiose. They are the moments when we feel touched by one another. ~ Jack Kornfield We all lead busy lives. We are living life with full plates. We have many different obligations, responsibilities, interests and causes. All of which can be wonderful. But it is important that we recognize that with all this busy-ness if we fail to reach out and connect with others, if we fail to be with someone and share…then what are our efforts for?

Walking a life path of intention and grace leads us to naturally want to interact on a soul level with the people we meet. We want to touch their hearts with our words and deeds and to be the recipient of their gracious energies. It is through this energy exchange that lives are changed, supported and celebrated.

The exchange of our energies, the exchange of our heart love and the recognition of our soul’s sharing with one another creates a web of community building intentions. Simple gestures and actions are often the most impactful and meaningful. We do not need to wait until we have more or extra, but instead to Be with what we do have and allow the simple rippling to begin.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

How Do You View Your Wounds?

What wounds are you still nursing? Are you willing to let them heal? Can you view them as opportunities of growth, transforming and fire starters for your own evolution? Our souls want to be full, healed, and able to expand in greatness and possibilities. We need to find ways to support this healing. “We are not meant to stay wounded. We are supposed to move through our tragedies and challenges and to help each other move through the many painful episodes of our lives. By remaining stuck in the power of our wounds, we block our own transformation. We overlook the greater gifts inherent in our wounds — the strength to overcome them and the lessons that we are meant to receive through them. Wounds are the means through which we enter the hearts of other people. They are meant to teach us to become compassionate and wise.” ~ Caroline Myss

It is in the process of our healing that we learn compassion of self and of others. We learn just how strong we truly are. We often think we cannot handle certain pain or situations, but we do. We heal from the wound, the loss, the trauma and we rise above. Unless we keep ourselves stuck in the story surrounding the wound. When this happens, we keep our attention and our energies directed around the hows and the whys of our pain and suffering. We concentrate our energies on keeping the story alive. This keeps us from moving forward. It prevents us from receiving the greater gifts. It keeps us week, small and fragile.

The shaman can help move the story on or to change it. The shaman is able to discover what is needed for the soul to heal. It is in this process that the heart feels witnessed, the wound is tended to and the soul is able to grasp the positive energies created around this healing and shine brightly with the wisdom and gifts that are received. Once this occurs, imagine the possibilities of your experience! You now have new tools to bring to your day, as you have learned and witnessed how to rise above from a dark spot in life. We have experienced the ultimate form of love, self-love, and now we can share that energy with those around us.

Some people get trapped in woundology. Some don’t know that they have choices. Some want to remain there because the story somehow serves them, and they are challenged to see that there could be freedom and beauty in the place of letting the story go. How do you view your healing of your wounds?

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade

Expansive Life

We often forget the expansiveness of Life. We live in rooms within buildings within neighborhood within towns within states within countries within hours within days within weeks and we forget how large and timeless it all truly is. This compartmentalization makes some feel safe and others feel trapped. John Muir once wrote, “The grand show is eternal. It is always sunrise somewhere; the dew is never dried all at once; a shower is forever falling; vapor is ever rising. Eternal sunrise, eternal dawn and gloaming, on sea and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.” And within these words we remember. Our soul reminds us of the many worlds some only visit in dreams, it reminds us of the lives across the globe who we do not touch flesh to flesh, yet our hearts still can beat as one, and of the ancestors before us who still visit and remind us of our lineage. We remember that we are not meant to be small. We remember we are all one. We remember that many also hold the wants and hopes we hold within our heart.

When we begin to remember just how vast our opportunities can be we see possibilities in everything. We see lessons everywhere. We find beauty in the single blade of grass, in the dried seed casing, and in the eyes of a stranger. We are able to walk through our day with an understanding that to be fully in this moment means bringing attention to all that is here and now, not to get lost or give attention and energies to yesterday or tomorrow. We then are the divine audience to the wonders of life, others and ours. We honor and celebrate, we witness and take part and we live fully in the moment at hand with appreciation of what is offered us.

Blessings ~ Lisa

©COPYRIGHT 2013 Lisa Meade