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In This Moment, I Choose Me

December 1, 2015

“I call all of my power back to me now. I am whole and complete.” – Danielle LaPorte

I woke up this morning inspired to make a video for you. As much as I would prefer to have us sit together, drink tea (iced tea – it’s hot here!) and talk properly, this is the closest thing I’ve got. (And I think it’s hilarious that the thumbnail at the beginning makes me look sad – I promise I’m not!)

In this video I talk about a new momentary meditation practice I have been doing. It was inspired by Danielle LaPorte’s post (which you can find here), but I’ve changed it up a little bit. I know i am not the first to do this, and I don’t take credit for it, but for me it has been a powerful change-maker. When there is crazy-making going on around you, when you are feeling overwhelmed or your buttons are being pushed, you are not in possession of your power. Taking a brief moment – even just the length of one breath – and calling that power back to you reminds you of who you are, where you are, and that you always have a choice.

“I call my power back to me. In this moment, I choose…”

Choosing how you feel and how you react is a revolutionary act. Choosing how you react is actually choosing yourself. And that is where your true power lies.

Sending you so much love,

Jamie and Meghan

 

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Over the Bones

June 19, 2012

“I am a writer. I am a seeker. I can find magic anywhere. I want to tell you stories and tell your stories. I love to celebrate everything in every way. I can see to the heart and the possibilities in anything. I am still afraid of my own bigness. I want to consciously decide how to live each day.  I have a profound belief in the sacredness of all things. I want to shine a light.” – meghan genge

 

venice door 1 meg web

It’s all there.

I have done the research. I have the books (nearly all of the books!) I have the paint and the glue and the glitter. I have the mala and the camera. I have the computer and the pen. I have the crystals and the sage and the websites. I have the DVDs and the pdfs. I have the words – especially the ones I wrote at the top of this post – and the support.

The bones are ready.

In Women Who Run With the Wolves, Clarissa Pinkola Estes writes:

“La Loba sings over the bones she has gathered. To sing means to use the soul-voice. It means to say on the breath the truth of one’s power and one’s need, to breathe soul over the thing that is ailing or in need of restoration…That is singing over the bones.”

I read those lines for the first time when I was about 23. I didn’t get it then, and I am not totally certain I get it now.  What I do finally understand is that I have been collecting bones ever since.

How I understand the story of La Loba today is that now I need to consciously choose to stop collecting and start singing. I need to “…say on the breath the truth of [my] power and [my] need.”  My daily practice has been collecting and searching, collecting and searching for as long as I can remember. Now it is time to sit still and breathe soul.

Sit still and breathe soul.

Yes.

ox

emerge, sacred, Stillness

Journey Inwards

September 12, 2011

“You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition… what you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover is yourself.” – Alan Alda

 

path light and dark

Over and over, I have asked for guidance. “Where do I go?” “What is the next step?” “What is blocking me?”  Over and over, I have picked up books hoping that they would lead the way.  Going back through them, the bookmark is in exactly the same place each time:  it is holding my place on the page where it said, “Become still, be quiet and listen, or meditate.” I have always stopped there and not listened. But I kept asking the same questions.

The one time I tried to meditate, I sat still for twenty minutes three days in a row.  On the third day I stood up with a whole book in my head.  I wrote the book, but I didn’t meditate again.

For the past 5 weeks, I have been participating in Pixie Campbell’s Soulodge.  I have never – not once – completed an e-course before, but I have just about completed this one.  And do you know what she asked us to do?  Become still. Be quiet and listen. Journey inwards.  This time I pushed through my resistance and actually did as I was told.

And the answers to my questions were all there waiting for me.

Why are the easiest sounding steps the ones that are the hardest to take?

Sit still.  Be quiet and listen. Journey inwards. Meditate.

yes.

P.S. Pixie is hosting another Soulodge from the 31rst of October.  I highly recommend it.