IN MEETING 'LIFES CHALLENGES' 'GIVE BACK YOUR HEART TO ITSELF'
By Bernadette Phillips
The Poet Derek Wallcott has a most beautiful poem called 'Love After Love' in which he says "give back your heart to itself". This poem has been around my life for close on twenty years. I have pondered on its words both in my own 'silences' and with other people. The immensity and profoundness of giving 'back our heart to itself' touches me in a very deep way. I think it is the essence of 'real' change at the very core of ourselves.
Such a journey, the journey back to ourselves, finds us on many roads. Some of them straight and wide and others that are narrow and have bends and twists and turns. Our journey is ours and ours alone and will never be repeated again by anybody else. In giving 'back our heart to itself' we find a person (ourselves) that we may not be familiar with. However, we can then begin to build a 'real' relationship with ourselves that supports our lives to move forward from experiences that may have held us back for many years from living life to the full.
The Challenges and Deep Seated Issues of the World Recession that beset us that this time both in Ireland and all across the World, are bringing us to a place in ourselves where we are questioning the very fabric of our lives and all that we believed was 'essential' to make our lives 'complete'. Many of us now may be questioning our Personal Belief System and the Belief, Social, Economic and Political Systems of Our Societies. This is calling us to look for NEW INSIGHTS for Personal. Social, Economic, Organisational and Political Change.
Finding ourselves surrounded by such uncertainty causes us (maybe forces us) to look at life and 'the bigger picture'. In so doing we are called to embrace the more of ourselves with New Eyes. In doing this we meet ourselves again, maybe for the first time in many many years. In this there is a great cause for celebration and as Wallcott says at the end of the poem "take down the love letters from the bookshelf the photographs, the desperate notes. Peel your own image from the mirror, sit feast on your life'
I wish you Love and Blessings on YOUR JOURNEY 'Back to Your Intuitive Self'. To the place where you look to yourself for the answers to Your Life Questions. A place of security within yourself where you use Solution Focused Thinking to deal with the challenges of everyday living. A place where you can see the wood for the trees and see the Blessings in the simple everyday things, such as a cuppa with a good friend, a walk in the countryside, a smile, an appreciation and recognition of your own and others uniqueness
Love and Blessings
COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS into 'THE ASTONISHMENT OF THE UNFOLDING MOMENT'
By Bernadette Phillips
Life is made up of moment's that may be sometimes blissful and moments that may be tremendously challenging and difficult. We very often set our sights on the destination and miss the journey. The very essence of ourselves calls out to belong, to be acknowledged and recognised, to be comforted. We look outside of ourselves for the answers to our lifes questions and in so doing lose the very essence of our own being.
Two of the most life changing NEW INSIGHTS that I learned so far on my life journey are; 'COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS' and 'THE ASTONISHMENT OF THE UNFOLDING MOMENT'. Both call us to be fully present with ourselves but yet not consumed within ourselves. Both call us to be open to discovering the more of ourselves and discovering all the wonders and magic of the World around us.
Being fully present in 'the moment' creates a 'Space' for us to live and embrace the essence of ourselves. We lose the need to 'DO' things in a certain way or feel that we must live up to others expectations. We emerge from 'The Shadows' of our existence, kick off our shoes, feel our feet on solid ground and give ourselves permission to dance both in the sunshine and in the rain. We Celebrate our unique talents and gifts, knowing that shining our own light does not cause anothers to be deflected or quenched. In truth 'our light' may be the catalyst for others to find the confidence and courage to shine 'their light'.
This call to be fully present in the moment sets up an interesting paradox between the 'ebbs and flows' of life. We begin to nurture and embrace ourselves Holistically and grow in Awareness of our Uniqueness, Greatness and Limitless Potential. We see the 'path of possibilities' stretching out before us and become the light of our own Life and Soul Journey.
So!!! let us COME OUT OF THE SHADOWS and take our rightful place in the 'Space' that we now inhabit in this world. Holding our own torch of Our Own Divinity and being loving and compassionate to ourselves and others in equal measure. Let us give ourselves permission to gently step into the flowing current of our Life and Soul Purpose and light our own way, as we allow ourselves to be carried further and further on to experience 'the astonishment of the unfolding moment'...
NAMASTE- LOVE- LIGHT & BLESSINGS....
