Allowing Healing 

      Many of us want relief from pain, understanding about why a certain internal and/or external situation is occurring in our experience, or are simply looking for answers about what's the best next move in life. The truth is, moving through life gracefully is less about striving or doing as it is about listening.

     Part of this global shift in consciousness is to decrease our reliance on a hyper-masculine way of living, epitomized by the American culture and capitalism. It is clear that this way of being on a cultural level is no longer sustainable as evidence by the financial collapse(s), environmental destruction, and a general sense of fear of about our current state of affairs. Similar repercussions of this way of being can show up in our individual life via feeling burned out, uncertain of what to "do" next, and simply a need to make a shift in our way of being and doing that is more sustainable.

    As we decrease our need for the hyper-masculine, we allow the feminine qualities of receptivity, allowing, and intuition to come online. While setting an intention to live a new way of being is a masculine and necessary move, actually receiving the information about how to build a bridge from your current reality to the one you are intending is a feminine one.

     Give yourself a break from trying to figure out whatever is troubling you right now and just stop all doing. Close your eyes, fill your body with breath, let tension dissipate from your body-mind as you exhale. Feel the sense of receptivity as you allow the body to receive the breath, as you allow your heart to receive yourself, and allow life to be lived through you.

    As you go about your life, be open to the unexpected ways that life is showing you the next move to take, showing you where the healing can occur. Notice when you are pushing away situations, when there is a clear "NO" that you are expressing verbally, emotionally, and/or energetically. Usually its those things that we've been pushing away and putting off until "tomorrow" that actually hold the key to our relief, healing, and transformation.

    Receive yourself, receive life without agenda, and let the healing into your heart via a feminine receptivity. Check out the Mary Oliver piece on the right of this email for a poetic expression of what I've been saying. May you receive the depth of Love that you are.