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What the What?!

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Warning: This post is about trauma, although no specific trauma is discussed, it includes talking about personal experienced and inherited trauma. I trust your wisdom on whether this  post is beneficial for you right now.

I've been spending this week attending the Collective Trauma Summit 2020 and really immersing myself listening to the leaders in the field of trauma talk about collective trauma as well as inherited or ancestral trauma.  You may be wondering what even is that?!  It is now well supported by science that there is a chemical process that begins when we experience trauma and how it can effect our gene expression.  It is also supported by science that the trauma responses that we have get passed down for generations, even without passing on the traumatic event.  Which means basically that ignoring the trauma and keeping it in the closet with other family skeletons and secrets is not only futile, but actually harmful, leading to added layers of shame and confusion for having these seemingly "unjustified" trauma responses. 

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Who am I today? This is a question I like to ask to do a general card reading for myself.  It allows me to have a flexible mindset, let go of expectations,  a rigid worldview, and staunch ego. "How is my practice today?" allows my taiji practice to be what it is without judgement.  These times are challenging, so allow yourself to be fluid as we birth a new paradigm.  If we are compassionate and forgiving with ourselves, then the paradigm we birth will be inherently more loving, kind and compassionate.

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Alchemy of Fire and Water

Fire holds the power to transform and water nourishes and purifies.  Both are necessary. The emotions related to fire: anger and passion and joy can give us motivation and purpose, but they can burn up. In order to sustain it, it needs to be nourished and tended to. Water can nourish and heal and purify and soothe. There is a steadfastness to water, continuity and flow. As long as there is a path, it will continue to move forward. The fire can give the direction purpose and meaning.  We may notice that one or the other is out of balance.  We can connect to the elements to help bring them more into balance. This year with all of the challenges I have had to dig deep to find my passion. Connecting with fire by lighting candles, spring time fires in the fire pit were all helpful ways to boost my fire, and using the fire to help release challenges.  Where might it be helpful for you to connect to fire or water to bring their alchemy into harmony?

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Healing Water

Standing outside with my dog, grateful for the clean air that was hazardous all last week.  1 day of rain cleared it from Hazardous to Good.  The eerie quiet was filled with squeals of the neighboring toddler, the bustling of leaves being raked, and the barking of dogs. My newly planted Japanese maple looking nourished and healthy, moist soil, clean leaves.

I am in awe of the ability of water to heal and purify. Going to water is always healing whether it is the ocean, river or lake. The surface tension of water allows it to hold onto each other, a community of loving water droplets make up 70% of my physical body. Always healing, Always purifying, without any specific instruction.  Water reflects without judgement.  If there is anything that needs healing right now, talk to the water in your body with love and imagine the water bathing what needs healing with it’s magical properties and power. Allow yourself to bath in it’s healing, inside and out! 

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Nebula

Life can feel so nebulous at times, amongst pandemics, and politics, and oppression, it is normal to feel...well, anything really.  The entire range of emotional responses is completely okay, valid and justified. These larger issues can effect how we feel inside, as well as can combine with completely different challenges we may be facing. One of my supervisor's used to say that she never judges anyone because she never knows what they may have gone through to get to this point.  Not me, I grew up being judged and judging others. I can identify with Jane the Virgin's character being called "judge-y."  I have judged others, and thanks to my children, how damaging that can be.  More challenging has been to learn not to be so judge-y with myself.  It is easier for me to say to my partner, my children, my friends and my patients to create space for compassion and understanding for themselves but it is much more difficult to remember to do that for myself.  Perhaps because it is a blind spot, or a very practiced habit.  Perhaps it is because the internal world can feel nebulous. Lao zi said in the Tao Te Jing, "As above, so below, As on the inside, so on the outside." It can be uncomfortable to sit with the range of experiences and sensations we have, especially for someone with a trauma history. So I'm here to say, there is a lot going on right now. It's okay to be gentle with ourselves, and have space for tenderness and understanding like a good friend would, like our best friend would.

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You Are Good Enough

Who you are right now is Good Enough

Who you are becoming is Good Enough

And how you get there is Good Enough

There is no particular method or way that is right or wrong

If you have tried everything and are endlessly seeking for something that works

If you are having a hard time embracing yourself or your journey

If you are having a hard time letting go of what’s weighing you down, whether it’s yours or not

If you have attachments to trauma’s that come from another time or space

If you are having a hard time finding your power and living a life on your terms

You are not along. I am here to walk with you on this journey, as a fellow wisdom seeker, to hold the space of safety and calm as you release the burdens, reclaim your power and activate ascension.

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9 months into 2020 and 1 1/2 seasons left to go.  It is natural to feel pummeled by the waves crashing down, hard to catch our breath with all of the global challenges we have had.  It is these kind of pressure cooker times that create the environment for metamorphosis and profound transformation. Challenges can highlight what is important versus what no longer holds value and can bring clarity. Once the smoke and confusion clears, the inner work you have been doing will shine brightly for you and inspire those around you.

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Fulfillment

When we pause and get in touch with the emptiness in our hearts, it can feel like being swallowed up whole.  I used to think that it would take something grandiose to actually feel fulfilled. In reality, there is no Thing that will fill the space, the emptiness, the void, and there is no-Thing that needs to.  In Chinese medicine, the heart is the empress that should be empty, for with emptiness brings clarity to oversee the Queendom of the being.

Yesterday I was working through some old self-sabotaging beliefs and fear work. Today I created this Yantra.  Many of you have heard the word Mantra which includes words used to change our vibration. A Yantra is a visual tool that can be used for meditation and healing. Today I created this Yantra including the elements of vibrations of infinity, the Sun, Ether, Space, The earth, balanced in divine masculine and divine feminine, Sound and the center of consciousness.

I truly believe that by connecting to creative self-expression can help dissolve the confusion and be able to gain clarity of vision.

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Find Light through the Dark

The depth of my depression was the same ability that allows me to experience ecstasy and bliss.  But now, I am content to just find peace and fulfillment in my heart.  I am all too familiar with the hole deep in my heart that has the capability to swallow me whole. 

 It is going into the dark that leads to the light. By that I do not mean that we have to dive head first into our trauma and dark places, I have not seen that to help, but to stop resisting the dark. Stop fighting what is. Letting go of the struggle. Allow it to be. 

Allow yourself to sit with the vibration of it, without judgement, without expectations, going into the vibration will allow it to move, shift and you will find yourself better off.

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Find what’s Hidden

Sacred Geometry is cool, but how can it help me?

Sacred Geometry is a geometric symbol that contains wisdom, symbolizing different energies. The ones we gravitate towards hold something to help guide us on this journey. Our guides often speak to us in the language of symbols and connecting to our guides or ancient wisdom can help us feel connected and not quite as alone and empty as when our focus is too contracted and narrow.  

I was amazed that in my creation of this Tree of Life made with hexagons that I found a gift in the spaces between.  A message that has been very strong the last few months for me. 

You can use this image to focus your daydream. Stare into it, stare through it. With gentle focus, without trying to figure it out and see what bubbles up. Journaling after this can be helpful for some. And for others, merely having it up in your surroundings can be helpful, as a reminder to relax your vision and open up to the wisdom available through all time and space.

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Symmetry and Alignment

In the first 9 dimensions, Mother Earth is our rooting, the Galactic Center supports us from above.

Beyond the 9th dimension, the galactic center is our rooting and the center of the universe supports our crown.

Allow the natural desire to root and be supported

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Infinite Discovery

Life is a process of infinite discovery

Continuous discovery of experience

Expanding in the direction of my conscious or subconscious intent

Embrace the depth and breadth of it all

However messy and dark

It is all my sacred journey

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Infinite Source

Infinite connections

Infinite possibilities

Whole unto ourselves

Reflections of within and without

Love yourself: All of you

Feel the pulse of life surge within 

Raw and Real

Your are always whole

Divine Source

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Hum*nity

Discipline can be a double edged sword, depending on how you think about it.  I grew up being told I had so much discipline. I hadn’t done anything to have it, so I assumed I was born with it, a gift I was lucky to have. Which was great until adulthood when I felt like I lost it somehow. But discipline is not about how you fall off the rhythm, but about the commitment to get back in the rhythm.  Judgement and shame all make it so much harder to have compassion for our hum*n-ness. Yesterday was the first day of school and with the wind storms and power outages, new devices and new routines, I fell off my routine and challenge, but for the first time maybe ever, I choose to create space for my hum*nity, space to be a person of practice not perfection. So today, I don’t start again, or pick up where I left off, as I once thought, but I embrace all aspects of my practice and continue.

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Puzzles

 I asked my Sifu for guidance in my taiji practice to which he responded to practice like I’m solving a puzzle.  Today it occurred to me that I have always loved puzzles. Vocabulary.com defines puzzle (v) “to be uncertain about, to think about without fully understanding...Be a mystery.”  I love the mystery in puzzles and seeking the answer.  I love to ponder things I don’t fully understand: ancient wisdom, healing practices, sacred geometry, astrology. I LOVE the process of seeking, there is self-propelling motivation, like a constant burning flame to light the journey. A puzzle provides the container of curiosity and the encouragement to look at things from different angles. Opens us to a vibration of unlimited possibilities, suspending our habitual limitations of mind. I am filled with gratitude for the wisdom and guidance from Sifu Ko, and the passion of inquiry he inspires.