Big Moves

Always Begin in Stillness

Peace and Power Dear Soul!

There is so much goodness going on in Abundaverse that it feels like glitter is bursting out of my heart as I prepare this update for you! Allow me to begin by saying, last month wrapped me in so many lessons and blessings and moments for refection that I found it a bit challenging to center upon just which cup of abundance to pour from as I offer my flow for use in your life garden. As I have honored the discipline of rest, I look around and see so much movement and expansion in my community.

Three of my kindred-spirited, soul-friend-family mates are deep in the process of expansion and moving into larger home bases. As am blessed to observe, support and hold space for their transitions, I harvest so much wisdom from the inner emotional and mental shifts and patterns that accompany the physical moves required to enjoy an expanded reality.

As someone who deeply honors my sacred space and personal sanctuary of a home environment, I empathize with my fellows who are surrounded by boxes filled with their precious totems and submerged in what appears to be a bottomless task list - all for the mission of moving these totems first to a safe temporary space, and then later into the new expanded reality of home.

Though I am on the sideline, I have felt like a personal trainer for my buddy’s in the “pack up and move the boxes ring” who on top of moving their home bases are also working on their jabs, uppercuts, and hooks as entrepreneurs to keep up the daily tasks required for their home based businesses. Overwhelming feelings of frustration, anxiety, and overall fatigue can appear as the opponents when our world is quite literally boxed in and up against the wall. As I have been sharing a hand, an ear, and loving support, I realize a pattern which seamlessly connects with a scripture I have selected as my daily bread in this season.

We all cry for the remedy.

Allow me to remind you that we all started out as tiny beings dependent upon our Mothers and Fathers for our every need. While in our tiny body packages we had only our cry to offer to Mama in request or in demand for the nourishment her sacred body provided to ours. As we grow, we experience life, cry and then things shift in the form of support from another or in the form of feeling that perhaps our crys have fallen on deaf ears. A pattern I have noticed as my buddy’s have been in the throws of shifting homes is that we all cry out for the remedy. And as heaven would have it, I have been been blessed to witness and respond when they cry.

As adults, our cries expand to hold an abundant emotional vocabulary and we can often be in a full on cry fit without the appearance of any tears. Most High has shown me that to truly hear what another is crying out for requires deep inner stillness and even deeper listening.

We become deep wells of nourishment for others when we practice the art of honoring our own cries for nourishment with attentive discipline and devotion. - Temakha

Easy does it.

As I sat on the other side of the phone, or current box to be lifted, I realized that I was serving as a transformation doula for these beings I love, and I realized a supreme and sublime shift within my own well of being. As a bit of a backstory, I am a recovering fixer who in my past would often loose myself in the imbalanced practice of attempting to fix another. It was as if I would take on other peoples frustrations, anxieties, projects, and heaven assigned homework as my own while neglecting my own wellbeing. I suppose my past self thought another fixer would come rescue me as I devoted all of my innerg to fix and rescue another.

But as I sat on the phone and received the fullness of my friends emotional experiences, instead of jumping to put on my fix it cape, I felt relaxed, present, and in peace. I asked what I could do to help and offered myself to do what was requested. I felt powerful as if I had a whole healthy football team within me supporting me to do the intimate inner and outer work moving in the spirit of true community.

Even as I listened, and packed, and taped and organized in support - inside I rested knowing there is no more room in me for the automation of actions rooted in anxiety. Instead of reacting scenes from my past, I responded from my own well of peace and power.

Being careful can cost you.

The Apostle Paul wrote the Book of Philippians in the New Testament of the Christian Bible and I have a particular affinity and resonance with his writings in chapter 4. In fact, I have a previous post that you can check out that colors my response to life shifts as per my meditations upon truth.

Phillipians 4 : 6-7 says: Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. 7 And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

As per my deep dive on the online etymology dictionary we can see that the meaning of the word careful is rooted in quite anxious origins. I can testify that I have taken myself on dark walks down long roads of character development because I cared for another’s well being often at the expense of my own. Though it is wonderful to have the ability to sense the needs of myself and the world around me, I see how Paul invites us to tap into our trust in the Most High and to quite literally care not about how our affairs will be divinely worked out for our good.

Remedy on the Road

Meditating on this word and unpacking its meaning in my own journey has created a such peaceful foundation for all of my own transitions up ahead. As an independent artist who is currently preparing for a 10 stop tour to promote the release of my first album this year - I am certainly tempted to jump on the familiar feeling train of anxiety heading no where.

I am deeply grateful because I now know a new way. A always true way that provides a peace that surpasses all understandings and undertakings. I now know a peace that flows in me and through me to touch my self, my family, my community and the world. I know much like an infant cozy in her mother’s bosom, that I am a daughter of the Most High being carried through this life in ease and without a care in the world because I know that all is working for my good. And if at anytime I find life to have me up against the ropes, I don’t have to be concerned or fearful, instead I am encouraged to humbly make my request known. And while I wait for the resolution, I delight in submitting my mind to the fact that Most High’s plans and timing are always abundantly better than I could ever imagine.

Care less, Pray more.

It is my prayer today that no matter what changes, shifts, or boxed lesson blessings you may be unpacking in your life garden, that you will create a moment to surrender all fear and forms of anxiety toward your situation or circumstance. It is my prayer that you will open yourself to audibly make your requests known to the Master mover and shaker of creation and that you will feel in a true to you tangible way the peace that surpasses all understanding. Remember Dear Soul, the inner thought creates the outer form and big moves always begin in stillness.

Thankh you!

I am deeply grateful for your willingness to tune into this weeks dose of the remedy. As I continue to rest and re-center my heart and mind upon the eternal truth. I pray you do too and that a seed from my life garden can assist you with getting into the faithful, fruitful, and feel good groove.

For those of you in Savannah later this month, I hope to see you in the Sound Therapy Drum Circle that I am hosting at the Clearing House Jan 26 2025. For those of you who are not able to join us, perhaps you will be inspired to sponsor a ticket for someone else to injoy the experience. Learn more by clicking the button below and until next time, peace and power dear soul.