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When I fell, I fell hard. It started with total fascination…the teeming dance floor…the pulsating rhythms…the glorious dancers. It all captivated my spirit, and I simply could not resist. I was IN …
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Clearing out old stuff you discover things you've been holding onto you didn't even realize. Memories, wounds, experiences not metabolized, all taking up much needed space and blocking today's good. It's no wonder...all that heaviness. All these years...carrying that pain, numbed and silenced, that sadness and grief you tried to bury and store away like boxes in an attic. But as you clear out the debris of your past you also discover old blessings of abundance... blessings that were bestowed upon you back then but that you weren't able to receive at the time...Abundance that has been waiting in the wings for you, thick and heavy with wanting, like summer rain clouds welling up in the sky. There was love there for you, this whole time. You just didn't let it in. There is love, still here for you. Always here for you. As you let go now, your life begins again.
KT
Only you have the power over your happiness. But you have to know your negative patterns and the many ways you may keep yourself stuck in misery by engaging in them. It starts there. Once you recognize your patterns, once you've uncovered the wounds beneath them, you must resolve to change by first being vigilant for when these patterns and habits arise. You have to recognize when you are stuck in the story of the pattern and then actively stop yourself mid-track. Replace the negative with something positive- change your focus. Again and again and again. It can be that tedious. And all the more important for your liberation.
KT
I said "I want to stand in my power", and then got knocked down. I learned how I easily I gave my power away. I said, "I want to find clarity", and then saw how I couldn't see. A muddied and distractible mind led me astray. Layers upon layers of persona covered up my true nature. All that I sought was within but that was also where the battle lay... Lao Tsu writes, "Way leads to way". To discover your truth and your power you must first journey through your own darkness. Only there will you find your light.
KT
Our thoughts are not real. We think they are, and so live this whole drama based on identifying with our thoughts, sucked up into the story of them. But our thoughts are just that-thoughts. Our beliefs become planted into our psyche by society, by adverse experiences in life, and we internalize the crappy things that have happened to us to the point where it become a belief system we don't even know is there. Somehow we come to believe we are unworthy, unlovable, not good enough... and this is sometimes so pernicious and profound that we don't even realize those beliefs are there. But then we have these thoughts...of worry, shame, fear, whatever... and we believe them to be real. We identify more with our fear than with our strength- we completely become cut off from our own divinity. But the truth is that love is our true nature. So... take that risk and question your thoughts... create space between the thought and identification with it...questioning your fear... learn from it. Heal from it. And let your heart tell you the truth of who you are.
"Your conclusion that there isn't enough of something—whether it is enough land, or money, or clarity—stems from you learning, without meaning to, a vibration that holds you apart from what you want. There is no limitation. If you identify a desire for it, Source recognizes your desire, and immediately begins to deliver it to you. And it will manifest in the variety, in the fullness, and in the way that you, and only you, learn to allow it." - Abraham-Hicks
Law of attraction
Do not wait for "good enough" before you start living, loving, or enjoying life more fully. Do not hold back your dreams or your desires waiting till you reach some amorphous state of perfection before you dig in. All that does is keep you from the joy of the experience you seek; your definition of where you think you ought to be is the barrier to being what or where you wish. It's a matter of whittling away at these definitions and going deeper and deeper into your Self, letting the outer layers of thought dissolve until you realize that in actuality, you are already "that". There is no such thing as good enough, or ready yet. Just do it, follow your creativity, and in the process you will see that is the way to "enough".
Kim Torrence
Creativity is a sign of happiness, balance and wellness. It is our very nature, we ourselves being a creation of Creation. Creativity does not have to be a work of art, but rather, is the joy in which you delight and take interest in the fullness of what life has to offer. If you find yourself feeling in some way listless or stuck, lacking energy or appetite for new ideas, if you have felt uninspired for a period of time, check in with yourself. Something in your life is out of balance. Perhaps you are living your life in a way that is not fully expressing your most authentic self. Perhaps you are holding back, afraid to delve into creativity because fear tells you that you aren't good enough, loveable enough, whatever enough. We can come to listen to that voice of fear within without even knowing it, it is so automatic. Then we can live a lifetime covering our selves up, with layer upon layer of who we think we are supposed to be, until we are unrecognizable to our own selves. Take time to be still. Listen to your soul. It always leads the way back to health, joy, and well-being. Because setting yourself free to be and live who you most truly are- is what this whole dream of a life is all about.
Kim Torrence
Remember that everyone was once a baby.... that once upon a time they were vulnerable and fragile and wanted love and reached their arms up to be held. Whether or not someone was there for that baby has a lot to do with how open-hearted they are now. Deep down inside, everyone wants to love and be loved. Then life happens in between, and pain and sadness can harden some people, close them off from love and connection... it can also make them do horrible things. And that's because they've forgetten the love that is their nature. They've forgotten their divinity. Instead they have accepted pain and lonliness and isolation as their reality, but that is just an illusion. A delusion. Treat someone with love and kindness, and help them remember who they really are.
Kim Torrence
The walls you built around you to keep you safe also keep out the good. Each brick mires you to your pain, to your suffering. You must learn to protect your heart with love, not fear...
Kim Torrence
Don't believe what Fear says to you. Let the Creative Spirit guide you.
Kim Torrence
Her father had been arrested for a DUI. When he went to his court date, they took him away and put him in prison. My 9-year old client and her family did not know where he was for days. Her mother didn't have papers and they had to find family members with resident status who could call and find out where he was. This was not long after Trump had declared he'd construct a wall to keep out Mexicans if elected. They were terrified, the climate of the country hateful and unforgiving. My client, bright and shy, anxious and self-conscious, struggled to express her feelings before all of this happened, and now, much less under such stress and fear. Her dad was the only one in her family who showed her tenderness and affection. And now he was gone. She was utterly alone. In session, she denied her feelings and minimized the situation, "I don't care that he's in jail", she said. I didn't try to probe or prod...I realized trying to get her to talk about how she felt was futile. I needed to help her with her feelings, but on her terms.. I needed to help her to just feel. "Wanna paint?" I asked. "Okay", she said. We gathered the water colors. She selected blue paper and I put on soothing music. I let her know I would sit with her while she painted. She set to work without hesitation. In silence and with great deliberation she painted a single flower in the grass under a sunny sky. She then covered the sky, the sun, the flower, the entirety of the painting in black. Without words she showed me exactly how she felt.
Kim Torrence
The truth is you really are nothing, but this nothing is full, whole, infinite in everything and everywhere. This nothing is consciousness itself. It is already whole, complete and fulfilled. This is the amazing irony.
Gangaji (via lazyyogi)
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It's the pain you hold onto that keeps out the joy. It's amazing. Pain, once it is over, is over... But it can live on forever inside a story- one that has to repeat itself to you over and over again because of how your human brain and nervous system work. Pain, sadness, suffering, will tell you a story that can keep you lost in a trance of suffering and discontent. And it's not even conscious to us that we do this. It is a patterning of beliefs, and coping, that we had to devise throughout life in order to keep going. That patterning becomes entrenched, automatic, protective, defensive. You don't even know it is there. You have to wake up to the fact that you are suffering to break the spell....and then work to heal the past and replace the old beliefs with the truth- of your love and your worthiness. Joy is our natural being. It is who we are, what we are made out of...but the activity of our minds will keep us blocked from knowing or experiencing that truth. To live a life of joy is a conscious decision. It is not easy. Joy is not the attainment of things, or successes, or a set of circumstances. It's seeing miracles in everything. It's living life, fully, each moment. The good and the bad. The miracle of life. That has to be your North Star. It becomes that simple, and this complicated.
Kim Torrence
Centering thought: this very moment is your life. Not your dreams or your goals, though they may incite you with passion and drive. Not your accomplishments, though they may fill you with pride and satisfaction. Your life is right now. How you live each moment is how you live your life. This realization is an invitation - to prioritize peace and happiness every time you can remember to do so, because it is so easy to get caught up in the idea of living that you forget to live the very moments of your life.
Kim Torrence
"Life-affirming". This phrase keeps repeating in my mind. People, activities, experiences... there is quality of energy in everything, that can either dim your vitality or light it up, strong and bright. When things are in resonance with your soul, you can feel it. It is life-affirming, to spend time with someone who gets you, appreciates you. You feel that everything is possible, you feel creative, passionate, understood and supported. It is life-affirming, to think and say and do what is in line with the deepest values of your heart and soul and have that take root.There is a sense of resonance- when what one sees, does and experiences on the outside is a match to their innermost being. "I am alive, and this is the most wonderful, miraculous thing"... this is the essense of what it feels like to have a life-affirming friendship, job, experience, etc. Too often, we live with this belief that to feel this kind of ease or joy is a luxury, a privilege, something that we are not worthy or capable of because we have to toil and do the right thing, or that it's simply not possible to find that thing that we feel is missing in our lives.... But the truth is: the right thing in this life is to take loving care of it, of this life...to be happy with this gift of being alive and live in a way that honors that gift. It is not only okay to be fully, deeply, truly happy... it is our birthright. We deserve to feel joy in this life time. There are so many things that we cannot control in life. But we can control how we live...the things we let close to our hearts, the things we spend our time on, the people in our lives, the way we think, the choices we make. Take an inventory of the things in your life that make your soul sing... and notice the things that drain your vitality. You do not have to be miserable or live in a way that dims your spirit. You can be free.
KimTorrence
