August 2015
Dear One,
I woke up this
morning with a fresh excitement. This month has
not been a particularly easy one. I felt on the edge of something
new, and each morning I woke up in a fog, with a sense of being in a
dream.. I was struggling with something that was longing to take
form.
I
knew the words...the concept, but this morning I woke up with the
sense, the energetic feeling that
I have Choice....in each new
day....I have a choice...
The decision is mine: "I have a
choice."
What then is the
Issue?
My issue is that
I when I am in reaction I have chosen to listen to fear's
admonition that I have no choice. From this thought I
become your victim, I am powerless..and I then believe that my
behavior is not my choice. I am reacting to...rather than
consciously choosing to respond.
My emotional
reaction tells me that I am in danger and that I must take the action
of either defending or attacking.
I woke up this
morning with the clear sense that I have a choice in every moment. I
choose to know that:
I am responsible for my actions.
It is empowering to know that with each breath I choose to take...
I have a choice not to take
anything you say personally.
(
Pathwork lecture 51: Importance of Forming Independent Opinions)
I have a
choice to move beyond my judgments of
self and other.
I have a choice
to finally accept my history, my self
and all whom I
have blamed and move into the love.
I woke up this
morning with these lines from a David Whyte Poem in my consciousness:
"What
To Remember When Waking"
"In the first hardly noticed moment when you wake,
coming back from this life from the other more secret, movable
and frighteningly honest world where everything began,
there is a small opening into the day which closes
the moment you begin your plans.
What you plan is too small for you to live.
What you can live wholeheartedly will make plans enough
for the vitality hidden in your sleep.
To be human is to become visible while carrying what is hidden
as a gift to others
To remember the other world in
this world
is to live in your true inheritance.
You are not a troubled guest on this earth,
you are not an accident amidst other accidents.
You were invited from another and greater night
than the one from which you have just emerged........"
--D.W.
It is your
choice to awaken to your true inheritance.
Are you willing
to remember who you are?
Are you willing
to choose LOVE?
The essence of
who you are is never altered.
An Angel chooses
to walk through the doorway of illusion,
So that Fear can
present itself to be transformed.
I am very
excited to be teaching "this" in Brazil this month.
Be well,
remember you are blessed and "Stay Strong."
When I choose
love...
Grace is my
daily bread.
-- Barbara