The Peace Inside

So, my dear…..if you’re reading this ‘in realtime’ as it were, you’ll be doing so during hmmmm interesting times! As I write, we find ourselves in the midst of a global pandemic, and there’s certainly a global sense of fear in the air.

The theme and meditation this month have been born of this time, and my deep intention with both is to soothe any sense of loss, or grief, or fear you’re feeling. Of course, it’s true that any of us can feel such feelings at anytime. It’s just they’re perhaps more potent and certainly more commonly experienced right now.

A few things come up for me at times of ‘loss’, or ‘unwanted’. A notion that keeps running through my mind is something I heard Marianne Williamson talk of some while ago, in it she refers to when Jesus spent time in the tomb, calling it ‘tomb time’. The idea speaks of time alone, time in quiet, time when things don't seem full of life and so on. It can also be a time when you open yourself up to suffering…

I dug out some old notes on the topic that I’ll share here, the idea is beautiful:

‘If you allow the situation to be and keep your heart open, you literally feel within yourself the universe will shift, so the trajectory changes. Live through the pain, the discomfort, suffer through what you need to suffer through and you learn to suffer well. And it is no longer suffering, and you know how to wait, and to endure, and to allow things to completely change within you.’ Then, as I say in the meditation, as within, so without…..once you’ve transmuted the ‘suffering’ within to peace, what’s without will shift too.

I don’t know about you, but this notion blows.my.mind! So, gorgeous….the idea is to sit for a moment in dicomfort, let it be…and on the back of it, let it shift. When all about is fading and crumbling, DON’T try and grip hold, let it tumble, let it fall, allow tears be shed, open yourself up, and in doing so you’ll allow the more that’s being birthed of this ‘tomb time’.

Something else that soothes me greatly in times like these is my deep knowing that loss is not inherently bad. It might be unwanted to our human minds alone, but it certainly isn’t bad. Loss is simply a part of life. And all unwanted funds the growth of more, fuels the expansion of the universe itself. Just as nature has cycles, life needs moments of silence, and loss, and going within. It’s from our pain that more joy comes. Just like Shakespeare said ‘there’s nothing either good or bad, only thinking makes it so.’ As I say often, if you can lean away from judgement, especially at times like this, it will serve you so well….The analogy I speak of a lot, that’s perfect here is simply that we dig manure into the roots of roses to allow them to bloom more beautifully, with more fragrance…..and of course, the roses don’t freak out!!!!! The more you can be like a rose when life is placing crap at your feet, the more beautiful your experience of life will be!!!!

Oh and hey, it’s also timely for me to remind you of one of my all time fave ideas, one that’s key if you want to live happily, and especially helpful now…..you just have to focus way more of your time and energy on how you’re responding TO life and way less on WHAT life is bringing you. Nail this my friend, it’s so important.

Before I scoot, a quick reminder that living a joyful life ins’t about trying to be joyful all the time!! It’s about aiming to mostly feel good, while allowing all the feels as they come up….being authentic, congruent, not phobic or fearful of any emotion you might experience….like the seasons, they are all valid and of value….you just don’t want to stay in winter your whole life hey?!

With so much love and a sense of anticipation for the new being bud right now….

Zofie x