| 12 - Your Earth |
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| The Sophia Series - Year 3 |
| Sunday, 07. February 2010 |
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We begin this month, this second month in a relatively new year with a new energy. You are invited to be here with us. You are invited to spend some time with us; to open up to the New that wants to come in. And to maybe let go of a bit of what is imbalanced, release it so that it can find a new balance. The earth herself is undergoing a transformation. And those of you who begin to connect to this earth that you live on in a new way – you can feel the shift. You can feel the shift in the layers of rock within the depths of the earth. You can feel the shift in the flowing of the water, in the changing of the seasons and in the trees. You can feel the shift in the animals and the plants. And for those of you who consciously connect to this earth let yourselves feel how this shift is so loving and appropriate. The more human beings begin to open up to the shift of this earth and consciously accompany it, the softer, the more tender the shift can occur. The more human beings say Yes to the shift the more gently it will happen. And in areas, in regions where you find many human beings who say No to the shift and out of fear and helplessness misunderstand that something New wants to happen and that this something New is loving – within these regions the shift will happen more forcefully. Wherever human beings resist the New they make it more difficult for themselves. If you resist the spring, if you don’t open up and let in the awakening of spring deep within yourself and within this earth, then it will be more difficult for you. You will perceive the spring and each shift as an enemy. Your body will resist. Your innermost being will resist. And finally you will become allergic to spring. Not because the spring is harmful but because you haven’t accepted it’s time for spring, it’s time for a new beginning. It needs your presence; it needs your permission so that the arrival of spring may happen tenderly and gracefully and so that your body is able to prepare for it. Your innermost being, your feelings, your whole life may open up for it. And it’s the same with the grand shift that is happening right now within this earth that will continue through this year and for more years to come. *** There is a soft, comforting rhythm that wants to accompany your inner shift. And today we invite you to feel that you can align yourself with the rhythm of the earth. Instead of resisting this rhythm, instead of struggling against it, we invite you to let yourself sink into this rhythm of the earth, into this rhythm of nature. This rhythm is so natural and soft, so powerful and clear. It is a deep rhythm, the deepest rhythm here on earth, the deepest truth here on earth. And if you choose you may perceive this rhythm. Instead of fighting against it you may discover what it feels like to be carried, to be held in this rhythm. You see: on this day we practice together sinking into this rhythm that wants to arise within you and bring you into a finer balance. And as long as you hold onto fear and resistance – as long as the deepest rhythm within you is a No, it will be more difficult for you to let the shift happen. Just look at the plants on this earth, how gracefully each plant lets itself sink into this rhythm of the earth. The plant doesn’t try to blossom during the winter or shed its leaves during the summer. But the plant in all its wisdom lets itself sink so deeply to be carried and held by the earth. It lets itself be cradled and rocked by this rhythm of the earth. Are you ready to sink so deeply into this rhythm of the earth that the earth can cradle you, that the earth can rock you too? The deeper you let yourself sink into this natural embrace the more you can feel this soft swaying rhythm of the earth. And through this soft swaying rhythm that the earths gives, everything within you comes into a new, natural balance. The more you let yourself sink into this earth and feel the deep love that she gives you, the deep stability that comes from the earth, the more everything within you will align in a new way. For the plants that are connected to the earth have experienced over and over again that they are able to rebalance through this rhythm of nature. And everything within nature strives to maintain this natural balance. Only human beings who have drifted away from the love of the earth, from the love of their soul strive for another balance. For a balance that exists only in their minds. You see: the plants that place themselves in the care of the earth feel and understand that every season has a purpose. There is a purpose for winter. There is a deeper meaning for every season. Only human beings have forgotten to accept each season, to respect each season and appreciate it. If it was up to people it would always be spring or summer. If it was up to your mind you would only experience new pleasurable things. And so when you encounter challenges, when you encounter pain, disappointment, loss – there’s no space for these experiences in your mind. Many people believe that this part of their life shouldn’t really belong to them. They only want one side of life, not all that comes with living. They only want the times that are bursting with energy, creativity and joy – not the times when pain arises to be released, the times when wounds surface to be healed. And because many people resist this deepest balance, resist the nature of life itself they become imbalanced and then everything that they create is even more imbalanced. *** The creations of many people don’t grow naturally because they’re not in balance. And only what is in balance can grow by itself, can happen effortlessly and without force. A tree doesn’t have to make an effort to keep growing. But a human being who works in a job without really saying Yes to it, without being truly connected to their own soul deep within will soon find that their job doesn’t keep growing. For on this earth only what is in balance can grow by itself, effortlessly and without force. Everything that is in a deep, natural balance wants to grow. You can observe this in nature – everything that is in balance wants to keep growing, wants to keep expanding, wants to keep unfolding. And we invite you today to observe how much you drifted away from this deep rhythm of the earth; from this deep naturalness within your own life. What do you reject within your life? What experiences do you reject? What people do you reject? Can you let yourself feel that this rejection creates a growing imbalance? And can you feel that the more you reject, the smaller and smaller the space where life can happen becomes? Some of you are running a steeplechase each day because there are so many things that you want to avoid. And so your life is endlessly exhausting because you are afraid of these parts of your life. Maybe it’s the winter that you fear. Maybe you fear success or perhaps making a mistake. Maybe you fear confrontation or perhaps clarity. No matter what it is that you are afraid of – it’s time to also be with this part of your life. It’s time to stop rejecting this area of your life and make peace with it. You see: when this area of your life is missing you create an imbalance within yourself and then you are no longer able to evolve without effort. The more you let yourself sink into this earth, this deep, natural rhythm that contains everything; all the ups and downs, all moods and emotions, all experiences – only when you let yourself sink into where you really are, only then can change happen in a soft and graceful way. We are talking about the divinity that is within all that is. And whenever you push away from this divinity, whenever you start fighting against your life instead of allowing it to flow, you push against nature and finally against the god within you and within all things. And there is no moral obligation to accept this divinity. Your soul, this divinity within you loves you no matter what you do. You can reject your life. You can reject parts of your life. Or you can allow yourself to be with all that is. You can allow yourself to be cradled by the earth, to be rocked by this deep naturalness that the earth gives to you. People who reject a part of themselves are not interested in being connected to the earth. People who think that life has to be a certain way tend to see the earth as cold and cruel. And the earth is not cold and cruel. She is just very, very much a part of this divinity that lets everything, everything be and allows space for the greatest possible transformation. And when you connect to the earth in a new way a part of you will find a greater, deeper balance. You will be able to accept more areas of your life. The earth helps you to return to this divinity. And of course there will be aspects within you that are afraid; that believe that this divinity would be merciless, would not care for your needs. Or aspects that believe that even if you let in this divinity everything will still stay the same. How many of you believe that if you allow yourself to be with your sadness you will be sad forever? You haven’t understood life yet. You haven’t understood that your sadness wants to flow, wants to be released and come into a new balance. And you haven’t understood yet what the earth knows deep within: that with this acceptance of all that is, change, growth and transformation will indeed happen. *** There is no other planet in the universe where life has evolved as much as on this earth. Why do you find it hard to believe that the earth is a master in assisting life to change and grow? Why do you find it hard to believe that this earth carries something within that is worth knowing and learning? Why do you instead believe that this earth is just a place, a random place among many in the universe and you just ended up here by accident? Or are you ready to begin to discover a new answer to why you are here, why you came to this place, into this consciousness of the earth, this rhythm of the earth, into this field that is able to create life, that allows space for things to evolve and to grow and that also allows you to discover a new relationship to this divinity within your life, to this divinity within you. We can call it the soul, god, your higher self, the angel within you. Whatever word we happen to use, they all describe this divinity within you. Only here on earth in this unique space can human beings experiment with this divinity; develop a new understanding of this divinity, return to this divinity. Only here on this earth can you find out how it feels to reject a part of yourself. Only here on this earth can you find out how it feels to reject a part of your life, to separate a part from the whole. And only here on this earth can you freely choose to return to this divinity and accept your rejected aspects again. This isn’t something that you have to do. Your soul leaves it up to you in each moment to reject or to accept an aspect of yourself, to turn away or let yourself sink a bit deeper into this divinity. Your soul doesn’t judge you or your decision. But: you experience the effect of your decision. Human beings that turn away from the earth, away from this divinity within, away from their feelings, their life – they will experience the effect of their actions immediately. The effect of rejecting their body, certain events, certain people or certain feelings. Only here on this earth can you experience what happens then, how it feels. And only here on this earth can you experience as well how it feels to be more and more with yourself, to arrive more and more within yourself, to cease rejecting parts of yourself and parts of your life, so that a transformation can happen. There is no right or wrong decision. It is totally up to you which you choose to make. But you can look at your life and become aware of when you reject or allow yourself to be with your feelings, to be with whatever is. And in this way you can learn what flourishes as a result of your inner attitude. Look at your life: how much expansion is there? How much growth, how much blossoming? And also look at: how much of yourself do you reject? How much of your life do you reject? Is it a relationship that you reject, that you don’t want to feel? Is it your job that you don’t want to feel? Is it your body that you aren’t satisfied with? Many people still don’t understand what we mean when we say it’s important to accept everything within your life. They think we mean that you have to stay forever in a relationship that hurts you. Or you have to stay forever in a job that frustrates you. That doesn’t have anything to do with acceptance or being with it. That’s just resigning yourself to more suffering. If you observe the earth very closely you will perceive what this being with it really feels like. The earth allows herself to be with a dying tree. She allows this tree to die, to disintegrate because she knows it won’t stay in this dying process forever but in time will dissolve and become soil and return to the cycle of life in a new way. But a person who has an old relationship in their life that is very painful usually doesn’t want to be with this dying relationship. And so this relationship can never really end, can never really dissolve and so all the love and all the warmth can’t return back into their life in a whole new wonderful way. That means, when you say Yes to what is unpleasant within your life what you are truly saying Yes to is the change that wants to happen. This divinity doesn’t want you to suffer. This divinity always strives for change, expansion and growth. And the parts of your life that you find unpleasant are the parts that want to grow, that want to transform and you just haven’t the trust yet to let this change happen. It is a misunderstanding between you and god, between you and your soul. You soul doesn’t want you to suffer. Your soul doesn’t want you to stay small and go without forever. So if lack shows up in a part of your life it’s time to be with it to enable it to change, to dissolve like the dying tree. And as long as you fight it and fear it and believe it is your enemy – no change can happen because you aren’t only saying No to the lack but also to the healing and change that wants to happen. *** This is only one truth that the earth has to show us. In her wisdom the earth accepts the greatest potential for change, the greatest possible transformation. Those of you who begin to connect to the earth in a new way in the coming year will perceive that the earth begins to teach you. It’s been a long time since human beings have been willing to listen to the earth. It’s been a long time since she was allowed to share her wisdom with us. And now it’s time to resume this relationship, to resume this loving relationship with your earth. Your earth loves you endlessly. She wants to tell you so much and show you so much and she is right here in each moment to hold you, to give you wisdom and strength. And now it’s time to establish a new relationship to your earth, a new loving relationship that embraces you, that allows your life to grow and unfold letting a new peace enter. And so we begin this month with a look into the depths of the earth, into the wisdom of the earth. And each one of you is invited to perceive the earth in the coming months, to accept this wisdom and strength in a new way and observe how you begin to blossom. And as the trees and flowers blossom in the spring something within you can also blossom. Yes, there are things within you that want to die, that want to dissolve. But there is also something that wants to grow – a new life, a new wisdom, a new creativity that wants to awaken. The divinity within all things, the wisdom of the earth will accompany you and help you to let go of the old and let the New blossom.
Translated into English by Silvia Striebeck Edited by Eva Smarda Carney |
