Captured Moments

When we are young, we are initially programmed by our parents.  They see a male child, certain programming comes into play.  They receive a female child and perhaps another set of programming happens.  This is, of course, based on what the parents and grandparents before them have known, learned and experienced. For example, if the family has always owned a farm.  Generations have, in fact, owned that farm.  The males have most likely been operating the heavy equipment, putting in the long days and working tirelessly.  The females have had the children, cooked the meals and kept the household running.  The children for generations have witnessed this division of labor and most likely been programmed to follow suit in some way or form, based initially on their biology, their sexual identification. Often, this could be unconscious. As we grow and develop and look for our path in life, with all that parental programming, we usually follow suit unconsciously until or unless, another path s

Our wonderful, wonderful human physical bodies are extraordinary.  How our parents, grandparents, siblings, teachers, neighbors, extended family and friends mirror to us, throughout our development, and scaffold our learning about how to use, further develop, modify and create with our mental, intellectual, emotional, spiritual and psychological aspects as we embrace, enhance, utilize all we have come into this 'earth walk' with is all extraordinary.  At many times and points in the life, we can always stop and find gratitude for all that life has shown us and how we have grown. Yes, life can also send us barriers, heart break, confusion, devastation, deep hurt, profound loss and great fear.  Cruelty, abuse, intended harm exists in this world, too.  Lust, greed, false power, hatred, rage, violence, too.  Energetically, they can all be the 'friction that polishes our rock' until we emerge our strongest, most resilient selves.  They can also have an affect, effect and inf