Holding The Space, Healing The Collective

Ever feel like your personal problems are part of a much bigger collective of problems? This is not your imagination! Because we are all One (and not the separate entities we believe ourselves to be), the vast majority of problems we experience are shared by the vast majority of people on the planet. This holds considerable promise when it comes to healing. We can actually help heal the whole planet when we hold the space and work on our own piece of it!

Recently, I have experienced some emotional triggers that really made me take notice. With the help of a good friend and fellow healer, I was able to isolate the tension I felt to my abdomen--basically the area of the Solar Plexus (3rd) Chakra which is connected to power and self-esteem. I visualized it as this huge, black twisted mass that was highly contracted.

After talking about it and asking questions, I understood this mass was all held in place by suppression. I began to recall bits and pieces of numerous female past lives where someone or something managed to place me in some sort of box so I could not be who I was. It was the suppression of the Divine Feminine. As each layer was allowed to build up, the mass grew bigger.

We worked to send healing light and energy to the mass. In process, it came to me that the last few lifetimes the suppression was so intense because I had begun to suppress myself. I had become so tired of the physical pain I had endured that I suppressed myself before it got physical. The healing power of Mother Earth was brought in as she has the actual power to ground and center us. This had almost immediate positive effect on me because I have a very strong connection to the land.

The really cool part about this process was that it felt as though we were not only doing personal work, but that healing this place in myself was serving to heal the suppression of the Divine Feminine at large. There is still a great deal of work to be done, but it is happening. I see evidence as I connect with many of my friends, They are also working through many of the same issues that confront the Divine Feminine on this planet, and they too are beginning to overcome them.

It is time to tune in to all those sacred places within that connect you to the Divine Feminine part of yourself. It is time to remember yourself as healer, as caretaker, as intuitive counselor. It is time to embody unconditional love. Heal yourself and the planet heals with you. Holding the space for one holds the space for all!

~CSE

Our Own Worst Enemy

I've had many female past lives. Recently, I've noticed a common thread among many of them. I usually began life as a very brilliant, independent (and headstrong) young woman and over time was stifled and suppressed in some way. Often times, the suppression would be physical as that was the only way to really bring me down. In more recent lifetimes though, I felt myself being more on guard. I would hide who I was before anyone could physically suppress me. Instead of being the shining light I was born to be I would suppress myself. I have become my own worst enemy.

I would say that is true with many of us. We are our own worst enemies. Instead of allowing our gifts and talents to be expressed in the world, we hide them. We believe we are not good enough. We trust our programming that problems and mistakes overshadow the good we do. Often we feel so unworthy we allow our lives to be wasted in the hamster wheel that is the world today.

Now is the time to remember who we are. We are all brilliant, shining lights full of gifts and talents that can illuminate the whole world if we allow ourselves to shine! We do not need to live dull, ordinary lives so that a few people can benefit from our labors.

We allow this to happen because we are cut off from our hearts--our own connection to the Divine. We listen to our programming because we have been taught to ignore what is inside us. It is our hearts that help us find ourselves again. It is in our hearts that we begin to reconnect with our own self worth.

Stop being your own worst enemy. Dare to dream. Dare to follow your own heart!

~CSE

The Refiner's Fire

I had a breakfast appointment with a friend the other day. This particular friend and I have a lot in common because we share the experience of having been divorced. Both of us suffered forms of suppression and abuse in those relationships, and both of us seemed to have learned a great deal from our suffering. What hit me was that there are some very powerful lights here on Earth who apparently agreed to such a life before coming here.

We discussed the idea of being marked--bringing such light into our reality that darkness is attracted to it. Indeed, this is the way our world operates. It's sort of moth to a flame with the moth equating to the darkness. The only way that darkness can be transformed is by approaching the light, often to the point of being consumed by it.

We also talked about marriage to unequal partners and the fact that marrying someone who is not your equal can bring you down. Ending the relationship helps, but at what cost? It took me years of rebuilding to get back to my former self. I remember going in to the relationship knowing I was stronger and believing I had enough strength to help my partner through it. The thing is, you cannot fix someone who does not want to be fixed.

As I chatted with my friend, I realized the mutual theme here was the suppression of the divine feminine. Life on planet Earth has been about squashing all those qualities that are sacred in the feminine--intuition, caretaking, and unconditional love--qualities of the heart that women are so often drawn to. Even the rise of feminism has managed to suppress this divine feminine spirit as these heart qualities are ruled over by the more masculine powers of the mind. It isn't about bringing out the feminine. It's about becoming masculine to succeed in a very masculine world.

Those women like myself who have gone through this process of overcoming suppression have been sent through a refiner's fire. It's a process of cleaning out all that negativity and leaving the pure feminine heart intact. The gold that lies within can then be seen in all its strength, glory and power.

Arise from your graves and allow that light within to shine for the world to see. It is the refining process that has made you better! It is the refining process that makes you whole!

~CSE