Captured Moments

  Our human system holds a great deal of energy and information. Memories are held in our cells, in our minds, our hearts and our emotions.  We might think we have thought everything through from the past but it isn't just a mental exercise.  The saying, "We must feel in order to heal' is real.  If there has been abuse, major distrust, extreme betrayal or out and out attacks, we can harbor those negatives thoughts and feelings for years, bound up in our own system.  We might even attach, identify or constantly react/respond as if that is who we are.  In TRUTH, that is not WHO WE ARE! The TRUE SELF that we are is not our accrued experiences. The TRUE SELF is the ONE THAT KNOWS.  To get to the HEART of the TRUE SELF, however, we must release through gratitude and forgiveness and emotion, like rage, what we have held into our system, unconsciously or consciously.  We all have darkness and Light within us.  To become aware of both aspects and ele...

After we find our own INNER LIGHT and the causes for any wounding along the way, an awareness arises.  We are NOT actually the Wound or the responding LIGHT.  We are aware of them both and how one may have facilitated the other.  Like any two extremes, the middle road will appear and it is the one to travel.  The middle road is our emerging SELF, the one who knows.  This Self of the Soul carries the wisdom of both aspects of what we have ultimately experienced in our life.   The wound is often the friction that polishes the stone.  From birth to adulthood, we are carried like waves on the surf.  Parents are usually our first and best teachers and the ones who have agreed to carry us along with love, affection, care and feeding.  We learn to color inside the lines and to shift and change and adapt to their ways, their expectations and their ideas of who THEY think we are.  They provide the context and structure for us to define ourselves ...