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Wouldn’t it be great if we were born with instruction manuals? Each one would be different based on what we needed to learn, but the basics would be the same: how to create healthy relationships, how to deal with sorrow and pain, how to reach our goals, and how to know what we want to do with our lives when we grow up. DailyOM: Learning to Live is the next best thing to a personal instruction manual: a guiding light to reassure us that we’re on the right path, and to help fix us when we feel broken.

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The Path to Surrender by Robin Mastro

I have been lulled into a deep sleep and awaken to the sound of drums beating. The rhythm is unfamiliar, yet beckons me. I feel it vibrating up my legs, compelling me to listen and move to its beat. It calls me to action, but I have been blinded for so long by ways of being that no longer serve me and I walk between two worlds. The fear of letting go is palpable. It moves through my body in waves that ebb and flow. I stiffen with pain and hesitation, my mind racing to make sense of unfamiliar territory, looking for ways to find higher ground. In a moment of clarity, I am reminded to focus upon what is true to my heart as I let go and step into thin air.

What is there left to understand when the mind cannot explain its way out of a crazy world, when even the experts have lost their legacy. I have relied upon my mind to make sense of the illusion for too long. It has played its role as observer, reporter, critic, tormentor, storyteller, martyr and victim. It has taught me to crave and compete, be acceptable and accept less than I knew of my worth. It has showed me the pain of shame and duality, distrust, loneliness and alienation. I have seen myself through eyes of women and men alike, and I have forgotten to dance at the edge of the fire.

I am reminded of love that lies deep within me, breathing words of faith and surrender into my heart. Wake up, let go, remember Spirit and the tenacity of the soul. You are here to walk your own path least taken, one of courage whose foundation is built in the fires of the temple. You have come this way before in flowing gowns, down darkened hallways to sacred sanctuaries carrying lighted candles and torches to do ceremony honoring the divine and the power of the feminine.

Wake up and let go, remember the blood pulsating through you moves through the hearts and veins and minds of women everywhere, uniting us in one voice, one of peace, love and purpose. We are not the doers of the world, but the bearers of a potent force. Through us is birthed our future dream, one of change and healing more powerful than any weapon, or fear, or lie, or belief we’ve ever accepted as truth. We have all come to these crossroads where fear has left us tired and craving solace. We can no longer hope and wish for the old ways to return. They have been taken from us forever. Now, we are stronger than ever before and we can surrender to the inner voice. It won’t lead you astray. Just listen.

I lie on a bed of sweet smelling roses and dream and pray for this time to awaken in the hearts of women and men alike: A time when our collective dreaming manifests as one voice, a time when we see clearly with wisdom and knowing, a time when the rightness of our choices bring goodness and truth. We are powerful beyond measure. If we listen we will all hear the sound of drums beating, awakening us to the future that is here, waiting.

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I finally stopped and realized it has been months since my last post. I would like to claim that I have been wildly busy with all sorts of abundance, but the truth is I have been more busy than usual with a heavy dose of procrastination thrown in. The course, Falling in Love with Yourself,  Mother Mary put together for DailyOm.com was successful and enjoyed a three month run as their #1 course. I felt surprised and grateful, yet cunning fear was germinating like a seed buried in soil. The course generated interest and traffic for my website with many inquiries to attend to, yet instead of blogging about it and attempting to generate more interest, I fell off the momentum wagon and convinced myself I only had time to focus on the flurry of emails and the rest of my normal work week.

After the last workshop, Mother asked us to commune with our critical selves and discover what our biggest fears the critical self was helping us not to face. She explained that all that criticism it has kept up over the years was designed to keep us safe from the things we couldn’t face when they were first happening. The two that keep coming forward into my knowing is fear of exposure and fear of abandonment. No wonder I’ve done so little over the last sixteen years I’ve been channeling to offer Mother Mary’s teachings to the wider world. The potential for thousands to be drawn to Mother through me is likely, which plays into the fear of exposure, and the potential for those thousands to move on to something else is also possible leaving me in the feeling of being abandoned.

I realize these fears are based in my past of attracting abuse and allowing it to happen long after my childhood was over. I haven’t been in abusive situations since my mid twenties and haven’t ever been abandoned as an adult. Yet these persist. I have faced my fears in bits like bread crumbs, each one when consumed and integrated leads me home. Today as I look for the next crumb it seems larger than most. To consume these two fears by facing and possibly feeling them requires a leap of faith that they won’t consume me.

What I feel my soul is whispering to me in it’s still small voice is the realization that it is the avoidance of them that will consume me. At forty four I run the risk of bitterness as I turn away from my destiny yet again. My critical self tells me that to risk is to die, my soul tells to the opposite. I am coming to believe my soul while Mother shows my the path to forgiveness with my critical self. I am accustomed to berating myself at perceived lost opportunities instead of expressing gratitude to my critical self for a job well done. And then teaching her it isn’t necessary for her to continue. I’m being asked to assign her new duties until I can face what she has been holding in trust for me all these years. The resulting integration providing a new definition of safety, one that is based in Spirit rather than my limitations.  

I have missed my blog and the voice it gives me. It is part of my healing. Today I can appreciate my procrastination for it’s childish protective qualities and remind myself that with Mother illuminating my path I have nothing to worry about.

Happy New Year!

Namaste’ Danielle

This months guest post is a peek into Danielle Rama Hoffmans new book, Temples of Light. What is becoming more clear to me each day is the need for more sacred in the mundane. For too long I have seperated the two. The extraordinary experience of bringing the sacred into the mundane is it no longer feels mundane or unimportant. Temples of Light is a journey into the heart of mystery and sacred practice began thousands of years ago in ancient Egypt. And if you purchase her book on the 8th you receive a treasure trove of sacred gifts designed to uplift your life. Enjoy!

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About The Temples of Light

A guide to the open-heart wisdom and secret rites of passage of thirteen sacred temples in Egypt

• Provides information on how to thrive as we move from the Piscean to the Aquarian age

• Offers guided meditations and rituals that connect to the ancient power of the Flower of Life, the Djed Pillar, the Ka, the energy body, and more

• Includes a 60-minute CD of a guided journey to the Sphinx and to The Temples of Light

The Temples of Light guides the reader, as the initiate, on a spiritual journey through thirteen of Egypt’s sacred temples–a journey into the sanctuary of the open heart. Each sacred site is a portal to ancient wisdom that can assist the modern-day pilgrim with everyday life issues and struggles–love, purpose, money, and health–and the deeper questions of enlightenment and our divine origin.

Danielle Rama Hoffman opens up sacred rites of passage that historically have been kept secret to forge a relationship with the temples of Egypt as allies and spirit guides. For example, the temple of Sakkara is associated with abundance; the temple of Abydos with remembering. The initiations in this book awaken intuition and the Sahu–the fully realized self–allowing connections to the power, magic, and wisdom of such sacred symbols as the Flower of Life, the Djed Pillar (the backbone of Osiris), the Ka, and the energy body. Hoffman’s guided meditations, rituals, and exercises also raise the reader’s vibration level, as we move from the Piscean to the Aquarian age. Embodying the wisdom of the open heart of these temples imparts a shift in consciousness from fear to bliss, from powerlessness to empowerment, opening the body, mind, and spirit to the infinite possibilities within. The book also includes a 60-minute CD of a guided journey of the Sphinx.

Big movements seem to happen in clusters for me. I don’t know why that is, but it is. I can feel very few changes in my internal life for years and then a flurry of changes occur and I feel new. Almost as if I learn to walk all over again. Food tastes different, the world seems slower, more still.

I continue living the shifts brought about by the Movements of Love with Marina and Daniel I participated in back in October. As I wrote about before I shifted some long held energy around my father and men in general. Marina had mentioned that according to the work, the energy and vitality for our careers comes through our fathers ancestry. No wonder mine had always stayed small. I was emotionally and energetically cut off from him and his line. Since that shift Mother Mary’s audio course I had put together for DailyOm back in June went live mid October and has hovered at #1 ever since. I love the generosity of the universe. Confirmation of my shift comes easily and with significance.

Less than a week after the course began to sell, my cousin Patty contacted me through Face Book to tell me she had a box of my fathers childhood things and did I want them. I had not spoken to my cousin since my fathers funeral 31 years ago. I loved her and my grandmother but when my grandmother died six months before my father, my cousin was my only reason to stay connected to his family but I was too young and too full of fear of my aunt and uncle to do so. When I got her email, I was filled with gratitude and didn’t feel the slightest hesitation in saying yes to her in my life. Not only was I being given the chance to heal old wounds but offered a glimpse into my fathers young life, to know him before the alcoholism warped his life and ours.

Just after the course, my husband came up with the brilliant idea to build my writing/work studio, which I needed now that our son is a more boisteous presence in our home, by sectioning off a quarter of the garage and putting in an outside entrance. We finished it yesterday. It’s exactly what I needed.  He said the idea “just came to him”, that he wasn’t thinking of it at all at the time. We both knew it was Mother’s creation. It was a simple and inexpensive way to meet my needs.

The last major event to occur may seem like the other shoe dropping and in truth a year ago I would have seen it as just that, but now it feels like direction. Last week my son was diagnosed with Tourette’s Syndrome. As sometimes happens with Tourette’s he has the ADHD and aggression/defiance component. On one hand I was hoping the doctor would tell my husband and I that we were the problem and if we just changed this and that about ourselves our son would be fine. She didn’t. On the other hand the relief is enormous that we didn’t screw him up and now we have been given a way forward. We had been lurching around in the dark for so long, the light felt like home and safety. We are finally getting great results on the Feingold diet since we became willing to do it exactly as the organization recommends,(imagine that) which feels like a full blown miracle. His aggression is GONE and his tics are minimal. He is much less hyper, more calm and focused. Instead of shaking my fist at the heavens and demanding to know why, I am feeling simple sadness that my son chose something difficult and challenging. As a mother I feel the irrational desire for him to have an easy painless life. 

I am at peace today with the life variety. More soon from my cozy new space.

Go forward, knowing the Path will vanish under you
Open your arms, knowing they will burn away
Give everything you are, knowing it is nothing
Bathe always in His river, even when it’s blood.

- Jalal-ud-Din Rumi
(Translated by Andrew Harvey from A Year of Rumi)

Namaste’ Danielle

Channeling isn’t exactly mainstream yet, but the universe seems to be working on it. Those of you that open my newsletters know I have been involved in helping others launch their books. I have been including those that resonate with me and feel as though they might do the same with you. I am finally beginning to connect with authors whose work is more similar to my own. I am a diverse individual. I enjoy exploring different paths to the same place of peace, but I have to say it is nice to be on more familiar ground.

In my last newsletter I showed you, A New Book by Maureen J. St. Germain ‘Beyond the Flower of Life’ Multidimensional Activation of your Higher Self, the Inner Guru; Advanced MerKaBa Teachings, Sacred Geometry and the Opening of your Heart

I’m printing here the long version because I feel it is worth looking at. Maureen is approaching the connection with the Divine in a different way than Mother Mary teaches through me, but the result is the same, a deeper sense of self in relation to the One. If a more stuctured  technique appeals to you, explore what Maureen is offering. It may be just the thing you are seeking.

Since 1995, world renowned Flower of Life facilitator Maureen J. St. Germain has been offering techniques to thousands of students on how to develop a 100% accurate Higher Self connection.  In her new book, ‘Beyond the Flower of Life,’ Maureen has compiled her insights and practical tools to enhance any meditation practice. Her easy step-by-step process enables anyone to advance their Higher Self connection to true Inner Guru status.

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I flew in from Atlanta late Monday night. I landed with a gritty headache from a day spent in a book and too many time zones. But I also landed with a greater sense of freedom than when I left. Last weekends course on Moving From Questions to Actions was powerful in a way I hadn’t felt in a long time. Mother Mary’s energy radiated power through my body that swept aside all doubts, just as flood waters sweep aside giant oaks as if they were twigs. Mother focused on the question why. She spoke of it becoming a defense rather than an invitation into the depths at some point in our journey.

When I first began awakening to consciousness, I was desperate to know why. I felt so abused and misunderstood by everyone and everything, especially myself, I needed to make sense of it all. But I became aware that many of my whys were an angry cry to the gods, full of self pity and regret for my life. Why me? Why did it all have to happen to me? Also I used why to delay taking action. I justified tearing things apart and analyzing them until their parts didn’t even resemble the whole anymore. Why became an endless side road I could take when I couldn’t face my fear and walk through it.

Mother encouraged us to feel rather than think so much about our lives. She said why still had a place in our lives but it was best not to use it if it was keeping us from feeling. I am becoming more aware of how little the answer to why matters anymore. On Saturday Mother asked us, if we were to be shown all the motivations of why all the people in our lives did what they did to us and why we did what we did, would it change what we do now? She said knowing all that would overwhelm our senses and pull us under. And it did feel like a weight as She was describing it. For me the truth is if I knew why, it would hurt more than it already does and I would still be dealing with the effects of the actions they took in my life today. So instead of solving the great mystery it would only burden me further. Because what I’ve convinced myself of over the years is that if I just knew why the event would cease to be, as if the deed never happened. I can stand back and see the total lack of logic inherent in that belief, and yet there it is. I believe knowing why creates safety but it simply weighs me down.

It is a relief not to chase why around in my head endlessly. Letting go of why feels like a big step toward forgiveness. It frees up more attention to how I’m feeling and listening to the guidance Mother and my own soul are offering. I felt saturated in Mothers devotion to us and mine to Her this weekend. It was full of feeling. Returning home I am faced with all the same joys, frustrations and toilets that need cleaning,  but there is a shift, more illumination on the path to Mother and a knowing I can’t get lost anymore.

Enjoy this months guest blogger, Brian Mahan, my long time friend and fellow traveler. You can learn more about his life’s work at www.briandmahan.com.

Comedy and Trauma

As fate would have it, I find myself sitting in a beautiful cabin in Summer Haven, Arizona, overlooking mountains spotted with new growth of Ponderosa Pines, amidst the skeletons of what must have been, at one time, a lush forest, prior to the decimation of fire.  It makes me ponder (pardon the pun) about the cycle of life and nature’s capacity to heal itself.  It reminds me that, “All the king’s horses, And all the king’s men, Couldn’t put Humpty [Dumpty] together again,” but I guess they didn’t know about Dr. Peter Levine’s technique, Somatic Experiencing, to re-negotiate developmental and shock traumas.  Had they known, there surely would have been a Phoenix rising out of that broken shell.

People used to tell me often that I was hard on myself. It always took me by surprise. I couldn’t see it. I thought I was being strong and forthright. After years of internal shifting I am kinder to myself and no one tells me I am hard on myself any more. This past weekend I had a new surprise. As I was saying my good byes after a Constellation workshop many people thanked me for being emotionally courageous. Some told me I inspired them. Being open with my emotions out in the world is normal for me now, but it wasn’t always. I used to be shut down and numb to what was going on inside myself. It was one more gift, after a weekend of gifts, to be reminded of how far I have evolved emotionally.

My friend Marina McDonald with her partner Daniel Salisbury, has embarked upon Movements of Love. It is a blending of Constellation and Hakomi methods of healing. I encourage you to explore their website www.movementsoflove.org. I have never experienced anything like it. It opened me to a profound shift in consciousness on every level. The work, as I understand it, is designed to bring about ancestral healing. Until this weekend, I had been unaware of the importance the energy of my ancestors played in my life. We are not taught in this culture to honor our ancestors. Coming from an difficult childhood I never felt I honored my parents. I loved them and had forgiven them to a great degree, but there was no honor in my experience of my family. The work facilitates a coming together of all the ancestors in ones family to bring about healing and connection that the absence of, now feels to me, the cause of much of the difficulty we face in our modern societies. We have cut ourselves off form our most powerful earthly allies. I am grateful beyond words for what has opened as a result.

The best part of it all is the knowing that it was time. I now allow myself to be open to Mother Mary’s timing of things in my life. In my experience She is much better at arranging things than am I. I had done the Constellation work on two previous occasions and while I felt the significance of it I did not have as deep an experience as I did this past weekend. On Saturday I had a constellation of my own. Mother Mary cracked me wide open in preparation for it. I woke up sick with a cold on Friday. Not so sick to keep me home, but sick enough to keep my defenses low. Everything about it felt right. I felt safe and carried throughout the whole weekend. What I needed was provided. Because of that, I was free to open fully to what was there for me to receive. Now rolling around on the floor crying may not be your idea of a good time, but for me it is life giving.

Today I have a different experience of my father and mother. The pool of acceptance and love for them is deeper and wider than before. But the best part is I can feel it all. No more am I numb to my life and all it’s unique grandeur. I’m grateful for my life and for all of you who share it with me.

Namaste’

I hope you enjoyed our first guest blogger. Thanks Robin!

Let’s plunge in. Anger has been a companion of late. I’m feeling it just below the surface, like a shark gliding back and forth searching for a victim to strike. I create fantasy he said she said scenarios in my head complete with scathing words and clever arguments. It took me a few weeks to face it. Why are you here, I ask it. What is your offering? My anger proceeds to show me the jealousy that swirles  inside me. I have fallen back into the trap of comparative thinking. Damn. 

Comparing myself to others can only be done in black and white. Someone else has what I believe I should have, because I want it, and it’s not fair. My five year old son and I share many attributes, that’s one of them. I can feel the desire to stomp my feet and howl my deprivation to the heavens.  The great irony is Mother Mary’s meditation last night was on gratitude. As the hour went on I felt my anger draining away with the onset of images representing the gift of my life. Damn.

I still don’t want love to be the answer sometimes. A shrinking part of me wants to nurse my perceived lack until my misery dominates my life. The good news is I didn’t flog myself for not “GETTING IT”! As in because I know I shouldn’t do something I should stop doing it. After last nights meditation I came downstairs to find a beautiful dinner on the table and my husband and son laughing, just fresh in from outside. I believe it is the willingness to stop flogging myself that has made the biggest impact on my life. I will most likely always experience envy, greed, lack and all the rest. But putting down the whip lets me move through it in a relatively short period of time. The punishing of myself used to commence daily and would result in depressions lasting months and at times years.

Mother has been showing me from the beginning specifically how to be kind to myself. It is not through facts and distant instruction, but through the experiences of my life, persistently revealing to my mental, emotion, and physical bodies the ways I punished myself, She offered another way. I chose Her new way sparingly in the beginning and later with greater frequency. I knew form our first connection that Mother wasn’t healing me so I could achieve money, a mate, fame, or even happiness necessarily, she was offering me self realization. Not the kind that brought the multitudes clamoring for healing at the temple door, but the quiet peace that comes from knowing I’m alright as I am.

When I feel all is well I’m free to serve in whatever capacity She requires. When I serve I feel all my needs are met and I require nothing. My cure for jealousy is to be present in my life so I can know what I have and how little I need. From there an opportunity to serve restores my faith in love as the answer to all my problems. Amen.