It has been a challenging week for many. The speed at which life choices are accelerating. Adjusting to the faster new year. It's already nearly February. And we're getting further into groove, with a more focussed mood.
We are being called to fine-tune. Select and reject. Choose. More quickly and honestly. What is the right course for our continued nourishment, and soul food.
Personally taking a stand for where we need to land. In integrity and responsibility.
And with that there is an intensity of energy. As the Year of the Wood Horse emerges. Bringing much decisive calamity. And the pressures of engaging in dramas can be an old unnecessary enemy. That is exactly the time to slow down. Meditate. Breathe. Contemplate. On the most important need. And to stay. On higher ground.
It is this feminine place. Gentle, peaceful space, that allows us to connect and better reflect on what is important, in every moment.
As I was working through challenges and priorities that presented this big moon week, and making decisions without succumbing to overthinking, fixing, or anxiety, a reassuring tune entered my mind with full dignity.
There will be an answer, let it be...
Yes indeed. Mother Mary.
I have had so many references to this Divine Feminine lady this week. Very solidly in my psyche. Guiding and protecting the course as a loving gentle mother would be. Serving with all Divine Masters an emerging humanity and community. Reassuring, that in all the calamity, an answer will always come, with a quieter soliloquoy.
Take a break when you need. To stocktake. And refine your speed. And let the intuitive wisdom intercede.
Much love, as we ease into February.
SaraSwati Shakti
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Wednesday, 29 January 2014
Friday, 24 January 2014
Choice Choices
Blossoms are spreading their marvellous seeds. Choice choices presenting at increasing speed. A delightful development presented this week.
I was asked to consider being a hub leader with Wellness Hubs Australia. A fabulous initiative. The Australian Traditional Medicine Society, is supporting the wellness industry. Helping wellness business owners professionally. Upping the credibility, of complementary therapies. What a marvellous blessing for holistic wellbeing.
I accepted the invite, with excited elation, and anticipation, of meeting and knowing a new collection, of providers and suppliers and bright practitioners. Sharing, and developing, fabulous new links. Assisting each other connect, and flourish.
Such heart of synergies. Connecting and developing, attending and contributing, meeting and speaking, interacting and greeting, with purposeful meaning.
What bounty, in the joining, the making, and creating, a stronger, light filled, purpose built, community. Growing an industry. Embracing and living, a life of abundance, illumination, and clarity.
A choice choice this week. Abundant Blessedness peak.
For those of you who'd like to come see. Welcome, look, it's all right here...
http://www.wellnesshubsaustralia.com.au
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
I was asked to consider being a hub leader with Wellness Hubs Australia. A fabulous initiative. The Australian Traditional Medicine Society, is supporting the wellness industry. Helping wellness business owners professionally. Upping the credibility, of complementary therapies. What a marvellous blessing for holistic wellbeing.
I accepted the invite, with excited elation, and anticipation, of meeting and knowing a new collection, of providers and suppliers and bright practitioners. Sharing, and developing, fabulous new links. Assisting each other connect, and flourish.
Such heart of synergies. Connecting and developing, attending and contributing, meeting and speaking, interacting and greeting, with purposeful meaning.
What bounty, in the joining, the making, and creating, a stronger, light filled, purpose built, community. Growing an industry. Embracing and living, a life of abundance, illumination, and clarity.
A choice choice this week. Abundant Blessedness peak.
For those of you who'd like to come see. Welcome, look, it's all right here...
http://www.wellnesshubsaustralia.com.au
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Sunday, 19 January 2014
Gloria, Alleluia, Awesome, Amen.
Religion, spirituality, multidimensionality, faith throughout history.
A passion that has incessantly ignited me. Of eons past and eternity.
A love of God, Goddess and all its mastery.
The beauty in human nature, mother nature, soulful destiny.
Love and hate and all the polarities.
Life and death and all the discoveries.
Psychology, philosophy, and multicultural humanity.
Who we are. And why we are here.
Oneness, duality and universal unity.
Healing, meditations, wellness, and therapy.
Such rich contemplations, devotions and mysteries.
Bahai, Buddha, Christianity, Islam
Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Enthusiasm
Sikhism, Sufism, Zen, Tao
Anthroposophy, Theosophy, Past Now
Shamanic, Organic, Creative expression.
Eastern Western Healing Contention
Ethereal, Natural, Elemental dimension
The more I learn the less I know
Infinite discoveries, expansive element
Gloria, Alleluia, Awesome, Amen.
Blessings Blooming Blossoms, Again.
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
A passion that has incessantly ignited me. Of eons past and eternity.
A love of God, Goddess and all its mastery.
The beauty in human nature, mother nature, soulful destiny.
Love and hate and all the polarities.
Life and death and all the discoveries.
Psychology, philosophy, and multicultural humanity.
Who we are. And why we are here.
Oneness, duality and universal unity.
Healing, meditations, wellness, and therapy.
Such rich contemplations, devotions and mysteries.
Bahai, Buddha, Christianity, Islam
Judaism, Zoroastrianism, Hinduism, Enthusiasm
Sikhism, Sufism, Zen, Tao
Anthroposophy, Theosophy, Past Now
Shamanic, Organic, Creative expression.
Eastern Western Healing Contention
Ethereal, Natural, Elemental dimension
The more I learn the less I know
Infinite discoveries, expansive element
Gloria, Alleluia, Awesome, Amen.
Blessings Blooming Blossoms, Again.
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Saturday, 11 January 2014
Smouldering Sacredness
'I cannot see my soul, but know 'tis there', said the poet Emily Dickinson.
Poets and artists have known it since time immemorial. Their connection to the soul. An invisible encounter with their personal and prophetic experience.
And as the natural progression of creative expression more readily permeates the world a smouldering sacredness is expanding our existential dimensions. People are tuning in to an invisible energetic flow.
The physical body is surrounded by a living, pulsing, smouldering energy body. Eastern traditions are familiar with these systems. And the West is increasingly catching on.
Sacred body and Sacred soul are intimately connected, in communion, and communication. And if they are not. If they are blocked. There is dis-ease, illness and unease. As Caroline Myss in the Creation of Health so clearly insists:
The Time Has Come to assert one primal fact: The human spirit is real. Beyond the chemical, physical and physiological study of disease, there comes a point, as we are led directly to the core of the person's soul.
The Soul or Psyche are pivotal to a thriving life. And this is becoming more evident as people tune in to the greater reality that there is more than physical dimensionality. And as the health and medical fraternity increasingly blends complimentary therapies and traditional remedies with medical inventories. Honouring the patient's experience and deeper existence.
At some level we are increasingly facing an intuitive knowing, an intrinsic understanding, of this smouldering sacredness. One that keeps calling.
That which is Spirit is imploring our inner resources to tap into our spiritual sources. Urging each of us to meet our real to goodness selves, and make our unique and valid blueprint on our world. One that requires a deeper attention to our inner qualities and mysteries, unmasked by externality. Living honestly, wholly holy, and healthy, in soul flame, completely.
What a marvellous journey.
May you smoulder in soul sacredness and passionate ecstasy.
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Poets and artists have known it since time immemorial. Their connection to the soul. An invisible encounter with their personal and prophetic experience.
And as the natural progression of creative expression more readily permeates the world a smouldering sacredness is expanding our existential dimensions. People are tuning in to an invisible energetic flow.
The physical body is surrounded by a living, pulsing, smouldering energy body. Eastern traditions are familiar with these systems. And the West is increasingly catching on.
Sacred body and Sacred soul are intimately connected, in communion, and communication. And if they are not. If they are blocked. There is dis-ease, illness and unease. As Caroline Myss in the Creation of Health so clearly insists:
The Time Has Come to assert one primal fact: The human spirit is real. Beyond the chemical, physical and physiological study of disease, there comes a point, as we are led directly to the core of the person's soul.
The Soul or Psyche are pivotal to a thriving life. And this is becoming more evident as people tune in to the greater reality that there is more than physical dimensionality. And as the health and medical fraternity increasingly blends complimentary therapies and traditional remedies with medical inventories. Honouring the patient's experience and deeper existence.
At some level we are increasingly facing an intuitive knowing, an intrinsic understanding, of this smouldering sacredness. One that keeps calling.
That which is Spirit is imploring our inner resources to tap into our spiritual sources. Urging each of us to meet our real to goodness selves, and make our unique and valid blueprint on our world. One that requires a deeper attention to our inner qualities and mysteries, unmasked by externality. Living honestly, wholly holy, and healthy, in soul flame, completely.
What a marvellous journey.
May you smoulder in soul sacredness and passionate ecstasy.
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Sunday, 5 January 2014
Wisdom Season
I have worked with hundreds of people who have been in career decision, and what I call mid-life transition.
Where they decide that what they have built no longer sufficiently fits the bill, nor adequately fulfils their destiny's will.
They have come to a turning point.
A chance to consider again the calling of their souls.
An opportunity to act and live their life for a deeper reason. Unearthing within them what I call a new Wisdom Season.
Taking what they have learned and bringing it all together for a better purpose built world.
And deciding what they want to do, how to live, and what to contribute for their next significant stint.
To take stock of where they have been, and what they have achieved with their knowledge and skill.
Looking backward, in order to move ahead. This time with more love, and heart, and inner thrill.
And Joy. That keeps blossoming.
There is so much for each of us to contribute to the world no matter when we find ourselves reconsidering.
Through exploring and expressing our own interest and joy. And expanding the quality and joy in others' lives we make a difference.
When the heart is giving, opening, and joyously energetically transmitting, we make a difference.
We are blossoming, and those whose lives we touch benefit enormously.
We live a life of renewed clarity. And we can't help but bloom, such as the grateful joy that so inspired a poem by Siegfried Sassoon
A flower has opened in my heart -
What flower is this, what flower of spring,
What simple, secret thing?
It is the peace that shines apart,
The peace of daybreak skies that bring
Clear song and wild swift wing.
May we all find the miracle of clear song, and inward joy and spring. Our reason. And wisdom season.
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Where they decide that what they have built no longer sufficiently fits the bill, nor adequately fulfils their destiny's will.
They have come to a turning point.
A chance to consider again the calling of their souls.
An opportunity to act and live their life for a deeper reason. Unearthing within them what I call a new Wisdom Season.
Taking what they have learned and bringing it all together for a better purpose built world.
And deciding what they want to do, how to live, and what to contribute for their next significant stint.
To take stock of where they have been, and what they have achieved with their knowledge and skill.
Looking backward, in order to move ahead. This time with more love, and heart, and inner thrill.
And Joy. That keeps blossoming.
There is so much for each of us to contribute to the world no matter when we find ourselves reconsidering.
Through exploring and expressing our own interest and joy. And expanding the quality and joy in others' lives we make a difference.
When the heart is giving, opening, and joyously energetically transmitting, we make a difference.
We are blossoming, and those whose lives we touch benefit enormously.
We live a life of renewed clarity. And we can't help but bloom, such as the grateful joy that so inspired a poem by Siegfried Sassoon
A flower has opened in my heart -
What flower is this, what flower of spring,
What simple, secret thing?
It is the peace that shines apart,
The peace of daybreak skies that bring
Clear song and wild swift wing.
May we all find the miracle of clear song, and inward joy and spring. Our reason. And wisdom season.
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Friday, 27 December 2013
Anam Cara Family
I have been sitting in silence today.
Feeling.
For all the people with whom I have been spending the past year.
And the seasonal Christmas period.
Sharing meals. Telephone calls. Ideas. Friendships new. And those of many years.
My Anam Cara family.
Anam Cara refers to the Celtic spiritual belief of souls connecting and bonding. Taken literally it means 'soul friend' and comes from Irish monasticism regarding a monk's spiritual advisor.
In each of our lives we can open to people who guide us. Souls that radiate from an aura of openness, trust and flow. Forming a deep bond by acceptance of us as we truly are.
The Irish poet, philosopher and Catholic priest, John O'Donohue in his 1997 book Anam Cara talks about being blessed with your Anam Cara as knowing that you have arrived home.
And to know your Anam Cara in another requires that you know the Anam Cara in yourself. That you have reached a deepened love of yourself. In doing so you open to a deepened level of love of another.
Many of us have experienced significant and transformative life changes over the past recent years. Ones that have challenged us to confront the meaning of our relationship with ourselves and with others.
In reflecting on where we have been it seems opportune to remind us of where we are headed as we move into 2014.
And, as John O'Donohue writes with such enormous beauty about the Celtic Wisdom of Anam Cara, his words perhaps speak most succinctly...
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.
May you be blessed with the ever new beginnings of a deepening knowing and emerging of your Anam Cara self and family.
Much love
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Feeling.
For all the people with whom I have been spending the past year.
And the seasonal Christmas period.
Sharing meals. Telephone calls. Ideas. Friendships new. And those of many years.
My Anam Cara family.
Anam Cara refers to the Celtic spiritual belief of souls connecting and bonding. Taken literally it means 'soul friend' and comes from Irish monasticism regarding a monk's spiritual advisor.
In each of our lives we can open to people who guide us. Souls that radiate from an aura of openness, trust and flow. Forming a deep bond by acceptance of us as we truly are.
The Irish poet, philosopher and Catholic priest, John O'Donohue in his 1997 book Anam Cara talks about being blessed with your Anam Cara as knowing that you have arrived home.
And to know your Anam Cara in another requires that you know the Anam Cara in yourself. That you have reached a deepened love of yourself. In doing so you open to a deepened level of love of another.
Many of us have experienced significant and transformative life changes over the past recent years. Ones that have challenged us to confront the meaning of our relationship with ourselves and with others.
In reflecting on where we have been it seems opportune to remind us of where we are headed as we move into 2014.
And, as John O'Donohue writes with such enormous beauty about the Celtic Wisdom of Anam Cara, his words perhaps speak most succinctly...
When love awakens in your life, in the night of your heart, it is like the dawn breaking within you. Where before there was anonymity, now there is intimacy; where before there was fear, now there is courage; where before in your life there was awkwardness, now there is a rhythm of grace and gracefulness; where before you used to be jagged, now you are elegant and in rhythm with your self. When love awakens in your life, it is like a rebirth, a new beginning.
May you be blessed with the ever new beginnings of a deepening knowing and emerging of your Anam Cara self and family.
Much love
SaraSwati Shakti
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www.lovingpsyche.com
Monday, 16 December 2013
A Future to Love
In 2011 Alan Clements published 108 reflections on the Art and Activism of Freedom in his book 'A Future to Believe In'.
Not only is the book a marvellous reflection of numerous aspirations and inspirations for planetary cultural movement, it has a large selection of sayings, and blendings of brilliance, from numerous writers, poets, teachers and activitists, in one wonderful book. You can dip your fingers, find your feelings, and create great mind maps, among a collection of many sections.
Yet the best part in it for me is one, simple, beginning.
It opens with a dedication. One of my all time favourite quotes from the poet and artist e.e. cummings:
'i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)'.
It is so wonderful. Not just because it is so beautiful in its simplicity and poignancy. But also because it reminds me of how strong and how vulnerable we are. And of what a privilege and a responsibility it is to be caretakers of another's heart.
Holding our own heart in esteem. As well as that of another.
And while my heart belongs to me. As yours does to you. We have an opportunity. To hold others' hearts in loving care, compassion, and energetic communication whenever we offer ourselves in friendship and companionship.
And that opportunity entails trust. And an obligation to ourselves to choose who our heart soul companions are. Those who understand how important it is to honour our soul heart. Who hold it dear and precious. And protect it from derision. Who choose authentic service to an entrustment to it.
Soul companions, together, in allegiance to the heart.
Creating A Future to Believe In. A Future to Love.
What a wonderful world that will be.
SaraSwati Shakti
Copyright © 2013. All right reserved.
www.lovingpsyche.com
Not only is the book a marvellous reflection of numerous aspirations and inspirations for planetary cultural movement, it has a large selection of sayings, and blendings of brilliance, from numerous writers, poets, teachers and activitists, in one wonderful book. You can dip your fingers, find your feelings, and create great mind maps, among a collection of many sections.
Yet the best part in it for me is one, simple, beginning.
It opens with a dedication. One of my all time favourite quotes from the poet and artist e.e. cummings:
'i carry your heart (i carry it in my heart)'.
It is so wonderful. Not just because it is so beautiful in its simplicity and poignancy. But also because it reminds me of how strong and how vulnerable we are. And of what a privilege and a responsibility it is to be caretakers of another's heart.
Holding our own heart in esteem. As well as that of another.
And while my heart belongs to me. As yours does to you. We have an opportunity. To hold others' hearts in loving care, compassion, and energetic communication whenever we offer ourselves in friendship and companionship.
And that opportunity entails trust. And an obligation to ourselves to choose who our heart soul companions are. Those who understand how important it is to honour our soul heart. Who hold it dear and precious. And protect it from derision. Who choose authentic service to an entrustment to it.
Soul companions, together, in allegiance to the heart.
Creating A Future to Believe In. A Future to Love.
What a wonderful world that will be.
SaraSwati Shakti
Copyright © 2013. All right reserved.
www.lovingpsyche.com
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