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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Feeling Our Way To A New World
by Heather Fraser The world that I remember and have carried within my heart since
eternity is coming closer. The ancient voices that speak to me, tell
me that to feel is to pray. If we are not feeling, we are not living. Most of us have forgotten what it's like to really feel. We know what
anger, frustration, anxiety, stress, hysteria, jealousy, boredom,
happiness, excitement, and embarrassment is. These are but a few of
our human emotions. But they are not feelings. They are more like
agitated states of mind. To feel is to move and to dance to the rhythms of our heart. To feel
our lives, every inch of it, is to experience the divine. From the
agony to the ecstasy, it's all an expression of what is holy within.
Our heart is the
chalice that holds the sacred elixir of life. To drink deeply of its
wisdom and its achingly beautiful grace, is to know God. Where else can we come to know the meaning of our existence, than
through the mysterious chambers of the heart. This is the passageway
to infinity, and it is through this beating, rhythmical, ancient
vessel of feeling - the love and the pain - that we know we are alive. And yet to truly feel often becomes the very reason why most of us
want to remain numb. To feel can be scary. And yes, some of us can
even be more frightened to feel love than fear. In fact, I believe
that most of us are
so used to feeling fear and pain, that to open ourselves and our
hearts to love is our greatest fear of all. And yet, this is our only
salvation. We've all danced intimately with pain and sorrow. We know that dance.
Our movements are robotic and lifeless. We remain in the darkness of
our perfectly controlled lives. Every second accounted for, every decision
perfectly planned far in advance. Our fatal error being, we've turned
the switch of life off. In our efforts to not feel any more pain,
we've become our own jailers. Imprisoned are we with the keys to
freedom in our very
hands, the keys that will unlock our hearts and allow the thaw to begin. If we are moving through our lives rooted in the fear of feeling the
full range and magnitude of our own greatness, our own divinity, what
kind of prayers do you think we are offering up to the world? If
feeling is
praying, and our feelings are the energy behind all our manifesting
and creative power, we can begin to see the grave error of our ways.
To live in fear is to pray for fear. To live in numbness is to pray
for numbness. To feel nothing is to not pray at all. This is what the ancient ones want us to know now. This is why we are
starting to wake up and remember the ways of old. This is why we have
a heart. That we may feel it all. To keep our feelings trapped inside
is to flirt with disaster. Feelings are life force. They create
movement. When they are unexpressed they create stagnation. Stagnation
creates blockage. Blockage is frozen life-force that creates mass.
Where there's blockage, life force cannot flow. If life force cannot
flow, the poetry of life disappears from view, and our very existence
becomes compromised. It takes courage to let our hearts thaw, to feel vulnerable enough to
let the tidal waves of pain and suffering flood and wash away our
fears. But the more we allow ourselves to unravel and unwind these
bands of restriction, these frozen sorrows, the sooner we become
amazed at how short-lived the movement of emotional pain is, how
quickly it rushes out and away, freed at last to be transmuted into
life itself, and we're left stunned and wondering why we held on to it
for so long. When we give ourselves permission to feel uncomfortable feelings,
(which is a massive act of self love) we are opening up the gate that
leads us down the road to freedom. It is here, as we walk along
together, as we cry, as we let go, as we mourn, that we begin to feel
something else. We begin to feel little glimmers of joy. We begin to
notice the person walking next to us. We notice we are no different,
that we want the same thing - to be free - free to love, free to feel.
We begin to see the beauty of the trees as we walk on, the dance of
the wildflowers as they sway in the breeze, the warmth of the sun as
it gives life to every living thing, the hush of the sky as we look
upward and give thanks for the greatest realization we've
ever come to know...that WE are the silent peace of God, our hearts
the dwelling place for this unfathomable, benevolent power. Before we
know it, joy is welling up inside of us and spilling out. We know it's
impossible to contain it. We know it must be shared. And with this profound knowledge we begin to believe, beyond a shadow
of a doubt, that the fate of our world, and our freedom to craft a
life we love, is up to us. We begin to trust in our ability to use the
energy of love to
create unity - within ourselves first - by gently emptying our hearts
to the silent peace of God, who's been waiting so patiently for our
return. This is what it means to feel. We cannot separate ourselves from pain,
though we do our best to bury it as deeply as possible. We cannot
separate ourselves from the Divine. The two are one. God is
everything. Pain and sorrow. Love and joy. The more we try to express
how we feel, the more we build walls to block out the light of love.
But this light continues to shine. It cannot be put out. It cannot be
extinguished. It shines on into infinity, loving us, healing us,
supporting us, whether we're aware of it or
not, whether we want it to or not. We can turn away from it, we can
shut our eyes, we can build the walls. We can do all this in an
attempt to feel separate, to feel in control, to align ourselves with
only that which is
practical, responsible, factual, and safe. But all this holding
together, all this fanatical energy exerted to keep ourselves and
others fooled, will eventually weaken our perfectly put together
lives, and a crack will slowly begin to form. And as legendary poet and songwriter Leonard Cohen once wrote, "it's
through the crack that the light will get in." There it will be. Shining upon us. There it will be, no longer hidden
from our hearts by our long held beliefs that we are powerless and
worthless. Why else would we have chosen to turn away from it? To let
it in would
illuminate the lies we've been telling ourselves, and this would be
painful. As long as we remain shut off from it, we can feel safe that
our false beliefs about ourselves are true, that our identities remain
intact and
anchored to this world we've become so comfortable living in. This is
the underlying payoff for remaining asleep. Comfort. Security.
Indentity. The known. The great awakening is about all of us cracking open. There's no point
in continuing to try and hold it all together. The truth about who we
are and what we have the power to create in this world IS going to be
known. We can either let go and accept this evolutionary process we
are going through, and move through it with relative ease and grace,
or we can hold on tightly, resisting our true selves every step of the
way, causing great discomfort, struggle, and chaos. What would it mean to know that we are powerful and worthy? What would
it mean to know that we are the creators of it ALL - that we are that
powerful? What would it mean to know that we are in fact, the light of
God? This is where we are being asked to go. Into this new world. Into this
new identity. But that is a frightening prospect for many of us. If we
are to believe that what we've identified with for eons about
ourselves is untrue, then who would we be otherwise? Loss of identity
can be terrifying. If we are to give up such long-held, deeply
ingrained beliefs, how will we survive? Will we survive? Can we
withsatnd our hearts breaking open and feeling the pain of our
ignorance and the joy of our new-found salvation? This is where many of us fear to tread. We think we won't survive our
feelings, our power, our worthiness. But we will. It is written. It is
our destiny. The world of duality, the only one most of us have ever
known, is coming to an end. And it's ending in our minds. No, the
earth is not going to explode and disappear. It is ending through the
power of our minds to create something else. Something based on new
beliefs about what and who we are. Something that feels more like
oneness and unity, and less like
fear and separation. As we move into this new awareness, like magic,
our eyes will begin to see a new world. It is here the ancient
prophecy of old telling of a new world, a new people, will come to
light. It is US. It is
WE. We are emerging from the chrysalis of transformation to a freedom
beyond our wildest imagination... copyright 2008 Heather Fraser
www.heatherfraser.com
**Author's Note: It is my intention that this message reach as many
people as possible around the world, so please feel free to share it,
intact, with my blessings. If we find ourselves in crisis with our
backs pressed against the wall, there is nothing else to do but let go
and unleash the tidal wave of emotional fear and pain that we have
been trying so hard to bury. It is this very fear and pain that has
blocked out the light of love. It is the dam that has been holding
back your every joy. We will continue to be pushed to the precipice of
our fears, (our very survival being the deepest one) both collectively
and individually, until we are willing to FEEL our fears, instead of
avoiding them through whatever distraction of choice we have been
using. When there is nowhere left to hide, Love will finally find us.
Imagine THAT world. We are heading there.**
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