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Wishcasting Wednesday

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from Jamie's post

What do you wish to rise above?

Blocking my feelings. Running away, refusing, numbing, avoiding, dismissing and denying the truth of how I feel, my real experience.

Rejecting my truth. Being stuck in old habits of trusting others over myself, looking to them for validation, searching for external answers, methods, strategies, techniques, permission, love, and approval. Resisting my wholeness, my worth. Denying the path, the experience, the practice, the purpose, the calling. Stubbornly walking in the exact opposite direction of true north, refusing to see or accept myself as I really am.

Self-hate. The petty, hateful, critical voice and behavior of ego. The smashing myself to bits.

Attachment. Clinging, resisting, practicing too tight, collapsing into grief, resisting the truth of impermanence, rushing after, reaching for, and grasping at what I want rather than being with what is.

Hope and fear. Both keep me from being fully in the present, which is the only place I can relax, be content, find joy–be fully alive and awake. If I am afraid, I am not in the present but rather am rejecting it, and if I am hoping, I’m reaching for some other time, some other circumstance, rather than connecting to reality.

Judgement and aggression. Inability to forgive, to let go, to relax. Attraction and aversion rather than acceptance. Desire for vengeance, retribution, justice, and punishment.

Discursive thinking and habitual patterns. Obsession with and attachment to things that no longer serve me. Things sticky, stuck, deeply rooted, old, moldy and musty, rotten and wrecked.

Ego. Dissolving this is most likely the key to rising above everything else.

Wishcasting Wednesday

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What do you wish would spring into your life?

Balance. A natural rhythm, an organic way of being that is simple yet powerful, filled with ease and good cheer, stillness and space, focus and intention.

Confidence. A clarity and certainty that is unshakeable and unbreakable. A sense of myself and my place in the world. Trust in my calling, faith in my purpose and path. Connection with my truest self. No need to ask or search or change, but a deep knowing, for certain and for sure and for good.

Connection. A wise woman told me this week that my view of myself as separate is killing me. This requires dissolving ego, (whether I feel superior or inferior to others, that’s ego), because as long as it remains strong, I think I am alone. I want to embody connection, to remember that we are the same, to see myself as equally worthy of love, acceptance, and belonging, and to know with utter confidence that we are connected, all of us and every thing.

Surrender. I don’t mean giving up, at least not in a negative way. And I don’t mean I want things to be easy. What I mean is loosening up, not too tight, not pushing or rushing, but rather slowing down, accepting–surrender, let go, release attachments, sink in, be here now, without agenda or judgement.

Embodied Wisdom. In Buddhism, this is often referred to as “skillful means,” Upaya in Sanskrit. It’s being what I know, manifesting that truth, the method and technique with which I might reach enlightenment. This is my compassion and wisdom in action. This means that my heart and mind are in the same moment, the same plane of reality, experience, and existence.

Opportunities for Service. Not service of the ego, aggression or greed or confusion, but service that eases suffering, shifts reality from aggression to love, confusion to wisdom, anxiety and fear to acceptance, attachment to freedom, depression to good cheer, numbness to awareness, speed to mindfulness, illness and dis-ease to health and well-being, hunger to contentment, poverty to abundance.

Love. It doesn’t matter what the question is, the answer is love. The more love, the better.