Category: Journey

Stand Tall. Be Proud

07.07.2023

2023, Journey
Journey #8

How often have you heard “Pride comes before a fall,” or “Swallow your pride” or similar phrases? Sometimes, being overly prideful can be a problem – it’s usually accompanied by a whopping big ego – but sometimes we have actually achieved something that it is worthwhile being proud of.

For example:
- You’ve studied for years and finally achieved the qualification you were aiming for.
- You’re no cook, but you wanted to make a special dinner for a special person – and the meal was fantastic.
- You’ve always been afraid of heights, but you took your courage in both hands and did a tandem skydive.
There are a million other things – big and small – that you have every right to be proud of achieving. You worked hard, overcame obstacles, and you succeeded.

And sometimes we can be proud even when, to the outside world, we fail at something. Many people dream of achieving something, but never go any further than dreaming. We can be proud that we actually TRIED even if it didn’t work out quite as we expected.

Do you have something you are really proud of? I’d love to hear about it.
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Loving Thoughts

30.06.2023

2023, Journey

Journey #7

“Serendipity.” Isn’t that a wonderful word?

Just prior to settling down to writing this Journey I had been thinking of a number of people in my life, and I decided to draw for myself an Oracle card as a way to get focus about today’s writing. That card was titled “Thinking of You.”

Thinking of the people in my life that I am not constantly interacting with, doesn’t happen too often. It’s one of the effects of having SDAM (Severely Deficient Autobiographical Memory). When people, places, or memories are not right in front of me, they just don’t exist, which can, to those others, make the person with SDAM seem as if they are uncaring. Nothing is further than the truth, we care deeply – once we remember.

When we do remember, it is like a lightbulb going on. It’s beautiful. It’s like the sun shining through a break in the clouds. All that hidden caring comes up to the surface, and if we are lucky we can remember certain times. Of course, that gets even tricker for those folk who also have aphantasia or prosopagnosia – we don’t have pictures in our minds to remind us of you.

What the serendipity of the appearance of this particular oracle card brings for me on the Journey, is to ask that you sit down and think of those you know and love – and those you have known and loved. Think of the wonderful times you shared, the love and the laughter and if you are so inclined – why not reach out and say hello. Just because.

Bring some sunshine into your life and into someone else’s.

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Moonlight

23.06.2023

2023, Journey

Journey #6

Who has never gone outside at night and looked up to the moon and felt the tug of connection? Yearning even. Yearning for what, you might ask? This is very much dependant on each individual person who bathes in her light – and where they are in their journey through the ebb and flow of life.

She represents wisdom, she is grandmother. She reminds us of the cycles of birth and death – the cycles of life that we are all bound to follow in the same way as the oceans also follow her cycles.

She is mystery: she sails, serenely, above us, but will not share all that she is. She keeps one face firmly turned away from us. She tells us that some things are meant to remain mysterious until we have grown enough to understand.

She rules our bodies and our emotions through our subconscious mind. That can be understood through quantum physics which explains that everything has an operating frequency and that the full moon’s frequency pulls on our subconsciousness allowing information – memories for example – to rise to the surface. For some that can feel like a glorious pull of connectedness although for others it can be quite uncomfortable and emotionally hard.

For some, the moon represents romance and love; for others she opens their world to possibilities and potentialities. For me, I feel the connection to her very strongly. She brings to me a feeling of stillness, of quiet calm; a deep cleansing of the soul; an immersion in the waters of life. And if I can float in water under the glow of a full moon… that is my place of peace.

Where is your place of peace?

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Mending Bridges

16.06.2023

2023, Journey
Journey #5

The bridge I am talking about is the energetic link we all have with each and every person we interact with. In contemporary spiritual beliefs we think of this as a thread that connects us to another person, place or event, and when that bridge feels stretched to the limit, all knotted up, or maybe even leaves you feeling drained of energy after each encounter, you need to decide what you want to do going forward. If you stay where you are without making any conscious changes in the relationship, it could end up being a bit explosive!

You need to look into the energy of the relationship – not all the stories. You have to look honestly, and without trying to fluff around your part in whatever has been playing out. What you really need to do is to be able to move consciously forward with no regrets, in whatever direction you chose to travel.
- Maybe you once had the same goals in life, but one of you has changed course.
- Maybe the other person has been leaning heavily on you for support and you feel worn out.
- Maybe the other person is taking advantage of you or bullying you,
- Is the relationship balanced, or does one of you dominate the relationship.
- Maybe it is you that is doing these things to your friend.
Listen to your heart and your gut. Be honest. Don’t be fluffy. Notice how you feel in your body when you think of these things. Do you want to maintain the relationship? How does that question make you feel in your body? For example, if you say “Yes, I want to remain in the relationship” does that make your body relax, or stiffen up, or something else? If you feel tired and drained when you’ve been together – is there a reason? Is that reason something you are willing to help with or does it feel as if you are being taken advantage of? If someone is leaning heavily on you for support, maybe you could learn how to freely give that energy without allowing yourself to feel drained.

When you decide what is your course of action it is time to implement it. Are you going to mend the bridge – the link between you – or is it time to burn that bridge and each travel independently. Maybe you can see a different alternative?

Either way, think carefully before acting. Make sure that the way the bridge is built back up, or allowed to fall apart, is done with respect and love for the journey you have made together. Don’t just burn that bridge and stomp off angrily into the storm.

Thank you for reading this blog. I do hope it gave you something to think about and I welcome any comments you would like to make.
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Wondrous Universe

09.06.2023

2023, Journey

Journey #4

We are all travellers, together. Travelling through the multitude of things that make up our world – our universe. We travel through the hard times, the tricky times, the times when you just want to bury your head in the sand and hope that it will all disappear and you can wake up in a bright new tomorrow.

Bu why wait for tomorrow? Your hardships might not disappear overnight but you do not have to live in them for all time. Start by seeking the beauty around you. Look for the beauty in everyday things. Look at your tea cup, or a fork. Tell me what you see.

Then, when you grow to understand the beauty that can be found in every simple, ordinary item – look wider. Take your view to a bigger arena. That might be the street where you live, the face of a loved one, an old motorbike, or a single blade of grass growing up between the flagstones.

Look bigger. Watch the clouds, seek out the mountains and rivers. Talk with the trees. And when you can feel that beauty, and strength and functionality in your heart – go bigger still and get out where you can gaze up to the Milky Way.

That is where you can gain perspective. That is where you can come to realise that you are but a small mote of dust in the immensity of the wonderous universe.

And with that perspective, your troubles won’t seem quite so large a burden.

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I thank you for taking the time to read this – see you next time!
Auri’An

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Breaking Barriers

02.06.2023

2023, Journey

Journey #3

In many ways, re-starting regular contemplative “readings” right now is a little strange, and although the topics I am discussing are for the Collective Consciousness of Humanity as a whole, they also sing loudly for me personally. But then – I am a part of the Collective. Just as you are. More than 8 billion threads of life, each contributing to the gigantic tapestry of humanity. Imagine what that would look like from space! How beautiful it must be in its diversity. And its singularity. We must never forget that although we can often feel alone, we are just one tiny – and very essential – piece of the whole pattern.

Sometimes that aloneness can be hard. We forget that outside our own protective bubble, there are others who also feel as if they cannot see past the walls around them. We can feel hemmed in, able to see the unreachable sky, but not able to reach beyond the barriers we have allowed to grow around us.

When we feel like that, we have a choice. There is always a choice, but sometimes it is hard to see. We can sit in our field of choice, surrounded by the high walls that we have either fallen into or allowed to grow around us, or we can do the work we need to get out of that and see what is beyond. We have all the tools we need to dig ourselves out.

The person in this picture is using a sledgehammer to break through the barriers he has around him. Breaking down walls doesn’t have to be so hard if you hit it in the right place, with the right tools and the right mind-set. My personal tools are strength, resilience, belief, trust, and knowledge. I often forget that I hold these tools, especially when I get overwhelmed. Sometimes I need another person to hold me up when it gets hard and remind me that I am not alone.

What tools do you hold?

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Igniting Courage

26.05.2023

2023, Journey

Journey #2

Things happen – sometimes unexpectedly and sometimes they creep up on you and just about knock you off your feet.

Things happen – sometimes they are just embarrassing or awkward; sometimes they make you want to curl up and hide from the world.

Things happen – that confuse you, or makes you question everything you know about yourself.

You are a human, having a human experience, and it is impossible to escape ‘things happening’. The thing is, how do you react when they do?

For me – I sometimes get overwhelmed. I cry. It sometimes seems as if I will never stop crying. I can’t think. My mind turns to mush and I literally cannot remember anything from one minute to the next. Other times, other things, and I suddenly find a strength I had no idea I owned and I jump in and deal with whatever it is.

When things happen we are faced with a choice. In this card, is the rider holding a flag of surrender? Is she racing away from danger? Could she be riding into danger?

Whatever the ‘thing’ that is happening turns out to be, there is one thing it is so very important not to forget. We are strong. We are valiant, and we are courageous.

In this card, the rider has no saddle or stirrups, she has only one hand on the reins because the other is holding the flag – which could be of surrender or of peace. It makes no difference if she is running from or to her ‘thing’, she has trust in her companion and guide, even as, in the form of a horse, it is taking a leap over a wall. She is not only strong and valiant and courageous, but she also has trust and faith that whatever direction she chooses – it will be the right one.

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Healing the Past

23.05.2023

2023, Journey

Reading Journeys #1

We are all on a life journey and sometimes we can look ahead and wonder what lies around the next corner. Sometimes it’s enough to simply hope we get through the day; but the past is where we often focus most strongly. It is our history. It is our Story. It is what made us who we are now.

Our story has many twists and turns: some good, filled with joy and laughter and sunshine; some not so good. And how often, when we look back through our lives, is it the hard times that stand out most strongly?

What is good to recall is that without those hard times to challenge us, to encourage us to understand Self and see what makes us who we are, we would never have built the strength we need to be able to step into the unknown future.

We are here. We stand in strength and clarity precisely because of the past times we have lived through – the good times and the hard times. And it is that knowledge that helps us stand tall and proud.

Healing the past doesn’t always mean digging deep into the wounds. Sometimes it simply means accepting those wounds as part of who we are.

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