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The Sophia Series - Year 1
Sunday, 15. July 2007

And so we begin…

… on this day with our shared time together. I, Sophia, enter here with my love, with my compassion, my wisdom, my depth, with everything that I am. I enter this space that is already familiar to so many of you as you have been here before. Some of you have been here for our gatherings. Some of you have been here during your dreamtime at night. Some of you have only perceived – there is a space that opens up; a new space that connects this earth to the feminine energy. A new space that is available to each human being; that invites each human being to come into contact with their own feminine part again.

No matter how old you are, no matter what kind of job you do, if you are male or female; no matter where you live on this earth – each of you is invited; you are invited to be here. You are invited to be here; to be in this love, in this safety and security, in this stillness – to be here as you truly are.

You are invited to pause, to pause on your way and become still and perceive what your soul wants to tell you; to feel who you really are, to perceive this magnificent era in which you live. This exciting and unique era in which you live. It is the time of awakening. It is the time to become one with yourself. Not to become one with every other human being but to become one with yourself.

To become one with all the aspects that belong to you; the ones that you like and the ones that you dislike. It’s time to become whole again like a sun that invites all of her planets: “Come, come back home to me”. All your aspects that have been floating around the universe, that have been searching until now; that have been searching for healing, searching for a home, searching for love. They may come back home to you. They may come home to where you are, where you breathe, where you live.

In our space today, for our gathering, we invite the energy of water. The energy of water does not exist only on this earth but also in other dimensions. And we invite the energy of water to be with us today. Water that is flowing – and water that is still. Water that has infinite depth. Water that gurgles in your creeks, in your rivers. Water that fills your lakes. Water that flows into the ocean. Water that rises up into waves. Breathe in the energy. Let yourself perceive it. Let yourself perceive the energy of water that is surrounding you today; that wants to touch you. We invite the energy of water today because it carries such great wisdom, such great depth within.

And water has the wisdom to be soft.

Watch the waves of the ocean. The waves of the ocean can become softer, softer and softer. Like your breath, your voice, your contact with yourself; it can become softer – softer – and softer. It is this softness that we bring in here today. It is this softness that will help you to bring all your aspects home – to let the New grow within your life. Let yourself perceive it.

Many of you believe that strength means to be hard; that strength means to be tough, to be hard, to be cold. You believe strength means to be distant from others; to defend yourself, to not put up with anything. You have interpreted all these things as strength and over and over again I observe how you try to be strong when anything new wants to enter your life – when you perceive the waves, the waves of the New.

Whenever anything wants to change within your life you try to be strong and you say: I won’t stand for this change in my life. I won’t put up with this. I won’t accept my partner leaving me. I refuse. I will stay away from people who upset me and hurt me.

Let yourself perceive what happens when you distance yourself from others. What happens? What happens when you withdraw, when you resist something, refuse something? The river, the water, the waves – they stop, they stand still. The water hits this barrier. The New that wanted to enter your life hits this barrier, hits this wall saying: I will be strong.

And so although you ask for change and open up for change when this change happens you go back to being strong; to the wall that you have built up: hard and tough – the wall that has protected you for such a long time. Let yourself perceive that. I want to invite you to feel that today.

There is a new potential: a new way of being with yourself, with the New that would like to enter your life. A new way of being with all of your daily experiences. I invite you to let your breath become gentler, softer. You are surrounded by the energy of water, by the subtle and tender movement of water. Let yourself be inspired by this, let yourself be guided by this soft, soft flowing energy. Let yourself breathe softly and feel.

The softer your breath becomes the more your body opens up, the more each cell within your body opens up in order to receive your energy again; the easier your energy can flow throughout your body; the easier the New may enter your life and what wants to leave may flow out. And you don’t have to struggle with it and you don’t have to hold onto it and you don’t have to control it or protect yourself from it anymore.

Let yourself perceive how loving, how loving the energies can flow within your life. A soft rhythm can enter your life. A soft rhythm – a rhythm that is soothing for your body; for everything that you experience, for your soul, for yourself.

You are the maestro who is leading this orchestra, this symphony of your life. You are the maestro who dictates the rhythm, the melody, the key, the volume. Let your life become softer. Let the rhythm of your life become more tender – softer, gentler.

Many of you have accepted that your life is always a bit too fast or a bit too slow; that sometimes the things that happen in your life are frightening. That sometimes the things that happen are sudden and unpredictable or sometimes nothing happens at all for a very long time. And so I invite you to become the maestro of your life again. Not by forcing or controlling it – or by using the old form of strength but with the new softness that is awakening within you right now. The tenderness that allows your breath to become softer; that allows your body to breathe again – that allows each cell in your body to breathe again, to be fully here again, more than ever before.

You are invited to perceive. You are invited to be the maestro, a loving maestro of your life; a loving director of your life. You decide if your breath has to be harsh and cruel or if your breath may be soft and loving. You decide for yourself. No one inflicts it on you. No one tells you: This is how it has to be. Your life must always be a bit too fast, sudden and unpredictable. No one tells you: This is how it has to be. Your life must always be a bit too slow, stagnant and boring. There is no one - but yourself.

You are the maestro of your life.

Your breath dictates the rhythm.

Let your breath become softer, let your breath become soft again and let yourself perceive how different your life can be – how much more gentle, how much more loving, how much more tender the New may pour into your life.

Feel the energy, the love of the water that is here with us today, that is dancing in this space – that surrounds you and wants to play with you. The energy of this water that wants to pour through you, that wants to touch you. To be as soft, as gentle as this water is the greatest strength – the greatest strength that you have. The softer your life may become the safer it is for you to open – to stay within your centre and to accept your life – to breathe in your life, to breathe in the joy of your life again.

The more you open up the easier your aspects can return to you with all the wisdom, with all the depth, joy and love that they have held for you. Your wealth may return to you. The immense treasure that you own may return to you. With this soft breath they are able to do it. With this soft breath things can change, the New can grow, your soul can come out and play again. Your soul loves this soft tenderness. Your soul loves to play, loves to look out of your eyes full of curiosity. So full of curiosity.

Your life can be so easy. Your life can be so soft and tender. It’s not a sign of strength to stumble from one crisis to the next. It’s not a sign of strength to be tough and fight. It’s not a sign of strength. It is a sign of strength to allow your breath to become softer, to allow your breath to become gentler – to sink into your centre and feel secure again.

Many of you ask: Why am I not able to say YES to my life? Many of you wonder: I’ve already said YES so many times and still have the feeling that there are parts of me that don’t say YES to this life at all. There are parts of me that are still afraid. There are parts of me that still don’t feel secure.

And I invite you: Feel your life, feel the rhythm, the tone of your life. And if you like allow this rhythm to become softer. And if you like allow your life to become softer so that you may feel safe again.

You see: You cannot manipulate your soul. You cannot force your soul to enter an environment that is hard and cold and doesn’t hold love. Your soul is like a baby – so innocent and so open. And your soul will tell you if she feels comfortable or not. Your soul will let you know.

Many of you believe that you feel comfortable in your life. You believe: yes, I feel alright. A bit of harshness, a bit of hardness never hurt anyone. That’s how it is. I’m used to it. I’m used to each moment hurting a little. I’m used to never feeling quite safe, never feeling quite at home, never feeling quite fulfilled. That’s how it is. That’s life.

That’s what you were taught, that’s what you learnt.

You have been taught to give up your joy. You have been taught to put work and your struggle for survival first in your life. And at the opposite end – where you store all of the unimportant things, you will find joy and wellbeing and security somewhere. And I invite you to consider carefully what is most important for you, what is most loving for you – what has the most to offer you.

Remember: you are the maestro. You compose this symphony. You decide how many string instruments, how many wind instruments there are - you decide if there are drums, if this symphony is played quiet or loud. You decide if joy comes last in your life. You decide if work and your struggle for survival come first - rationality, the thoughts of your mind, sacrificing happiness. And your life smiles at you and says: alright, if that’s how you want it, that’s how it shall be. That’s how it shall be. The symphony of your life will sound exactly as you direct it. As secure or threatening, as empty or abundant, as serious or playful as you direct it. You decide.

I am here in order to invite you – to invite you to feel that there is an aspect within you that would like so much to play again, that longs so much for joy and you know, joy doesn’t happen sometime in the future – when you finally get a new job, when you finally get out of debt, when you finally get a new partner, when you finally lose some weight or get healthy again, when you have written a book or come up with a new product idea.

Joy happens NOW – or never.

Joy happens within this moment. Within each moment – while you are thinking about a new job or longing for a new relationship, while you are annoyed with your body or coping with a disease, While you are doing all these things, within this NOW moment joy may happen. Only within this now moment. And you are invited. You are invited to perceive when your soul breathes, when your soul begins to sink into your body – into your life. When she begins to bring along the abundance, the love, the wisdom that she owns she needs joy. Joy keeps your soul here. Joy is the food that nourishes your soul.

Joy in the NOW moment.

The play, the laughter, the pleasure, the tenderness, the warmth, this loving contact with yourself. This is the food that nourishes your soul. This is what makes your soul say YES to your life. Your soul is not only like a wise angel – an angel that strives for enlightenment and climbs higher and higher on the spiritual ladder, letting go of more and more blockages, gathering more and more experiences and piling up even more wisdom. Your soul is also like a child. A pure and innocent, curious child.

And consider: What does your child’s room look like, where you invite this child. Is it empty and cold? Is it lonely and barren? If so, then this child will look at you and say: No, I won’t enter into this emptiness. I won’t enter into this pain. I’ll wait until there are colourful toys in my room – music and joy. I’ll wait until I’m allowed to dance in my room; until I’m allowed to play and have fun in my room. Then I’ll say YES. Then I’ll wake up in the morning and leap out of bed and say YES. YES, it’s so wonderful to be here – so wonderful to feel alive. It’s so wonderful and it all belongs to me. This joy belongs to me. This lightness belongs to me.

Each one of you who entered this space today – each one of you is invited to accept this joy again. To carefully consider how you want to live your life.

Do you want to wake up in the morning and your first thought is about not having money in the bank and then the job that you can’t stand and your relationship that isn’t working anymore and the pain in your back and the emptiness within you and the problems that you want get rid of and the things that you wish you understood? Or do you want to wake up and feel what gives your soul joy? Do you want to feel what gives this child joy? What makes your eyes sparkle? What makes you giggle first thing? What you want to eat? What you want to do? Dance around your room? Make a craft and put bright things up on your wall? What do you want to wear? What do you want to buy yourself to show how much you love you? What gift do you want to give yourself? What pastimes, what activities will bring you joy?

This joy brings your soul into your body, into your life.

This joy allows you to blossom, to awaken, to feel alive.

This joy makes your soul sing.

There is a whole new sound, a whole new symphony that wants to happen for you. For you, for all that you are.

Let yourself perceive how much your soul loves you and how much your soul longs for this joy – for this joy that you don’t have to work for. That you don’t have to fight for or earn. It’s here - right now. The most simple, most innocent, deepest joy for you. Within this NOW, within this moment. Let yourself breathe in this joy, let it pour deeply into your belly.

Let yourself feel … let yourself feel how butterflies begin to dance throughout your body. The butterflies of joy! How your body suddenly realizes that you want to live again, that you want to be healthy – vibrant. How each cell is awakening and dancing within you, living and breathing within you. Everything is waiting, waiting to play your symphony – to follow your beat as always before.

And now I invite you to let go of all of your old ideas of spirituality.

You see: the old ideas have told you: you have to do this and you have to do that. You have to improve yourself. You have to continuously work on yourself and after hundreds of years of trials, after an infinite period of lack, loneliness and sacrifice you will obtain your enlightenment, your bliss. And then you will be rewarded for all the suffering that you accepted – for all the sacrifices, for all the things that you denied yourself. For all that you didn’t allow yourself. For all that you gave up.

And many of you still live totally or partly with this belief. You work on yourself, you try to become better. You look for your faults. You search for them. You ask yourself: What am I still doing wrong? Where am I not perfect yet? What could I do better? How can I live even better, be even more spiritual, understand better, perceive even more? And this satisfies a part of you but not all that you are.

Sacrifice, suffering and hard work satisfies a part of you. But not ALL that you are. And as long as you live with this belief, with this concept of spirituality, with this suffering, this sacrifice your soul will tell you: I won’t enter here before you say YES to joy; before you say YES to all, to all that this earth provides. YES to joy. YES to time alone with yourself. YES to pleasure. YES – to embracing everything that this earth wants to provide for you.

You see: in the past you boasted about all that you could renounce. You compared yourself with others and said: I don’t need a car. I don’t need food. I don’t need to drink, I don’t need money, or relationships. I don’t need beautiful things in my home. You see: I can live in a cave without anything except a hard bed or the hard ground. My clothing is old and worn. I can live like that. I can exist like that. Look: I can do without it all. I can renounce all the things that connect me to the earth.

And YES, your soul has withdrawn from your body. And YES you have ascended into other dimensions. But why? Because you soul couldn’t take this suffering and sacrifice any more; because your soul has suffered so much. So much that she has started to withdraw from your body, from your life. And yes – together with her you ascended into other dimensions. This is one path, one path of many and it is neither good or bad.

There is a new potential available for you and for your life. There is the potential for joy, joy that helps you to arrive deeper within your body, that brings all that you are into the world. This wisdom within you, this wisdom of awakening that says: I don’t have to fear the world anymore. I don’t have to fear pleasure anymore. I don’t have to fear losing myself in delicious food, in my times of stillness, in dancing, in singing, in love. I don’t have to fear losing myself – far from it! I can find myself more and more and more.

Joy is a new place where you can live; a place that allows you to say YES to all that you are. A place that allows you to grow, that allows your life to grow. A place that carries you and holds you. And you don’t have to do anything for it. You don’t have to work for it or fight for it. You only have to accept it for yourself.

You see – all experiences are possible. It is possible to be poor. It is possible to be sick or to have a body that doesn’t suit you. All this is possible for you. But it is also possible to live in joy. It is possible to live in abundance. It is possible to live in beauty and in health. Both worlds are open to you – where do you want to live? In a world of abundance, of joy, in a world where your soul is invited to participate or in a world of emptiness, of sacrifice, of work, where you are alone, so alone? You decide for yourself.

You choose, YOU are the maestro. You direct the tempo, the rhythm, the melody. You direct it for yourself, for all that you are. In which world do you want to live? In which world do you want to become one with yourself? For this IS the time of integration. This is the time to gather all your aspects. Where do you want to do it? Where do you want to live? In abundance or lack? In suffering or joy? Where do you want to be?

The greatest lie that suffering tells you is: When you have suffered long enough at some point in time joy will come to you. When you have worked long enough, when you have searched long enough, when you have learned enough, struggled enough, then – at some point in time – abundance and peace will come to you. When you have starved long enough happiness will come to you. This is the greatest lie that suffering tells you. These are old beliefs that many of you still carry deep, deep within you, deep within you. And I, Sophia, enter here with my wisdom in order to tell you: the path of suffering leads you only into more suffering. The path of work leads you only into more work. The path of sorrow leads you only into more sorrow.

YOU decide, YOU choose.

The potential for joy is here for each human being. The potential for abundance is here for each human being. You deserve it. It belongs to you. It is your right; your right to choose – your right to choose for yourself and all your aspects. To choose so much love, so much safety and security, so much abundance. It belongs to you. It belongs to you.

These are the old programs that you played with in Atlantis.

These are the old programs that you played with and that tell you: concern yourself only with hard work and that shall be your joy. And other things like pleasure, other things like abundance and prosperity don’t pertain to you. Only some are privileged. Only some have the right to be rich. Not you. It doesn’t belong to you.

And many of you tried out these programs, tried out how it feels to give so much away – your abundance, your joy. Some of you still carry this program within you. And you follow the same rules, the same laws.

And I invite you to feel. I invite you to feel. It is enough. Enough. Enough. Enough of being poor. Enough of suffering. It is enough. You are the maestro. You are the one who directs the music. The one who says: YES, I choose joy for me. I choose abundance for me, I choose love. I choose a wonderful life for me on this earth because it belongs to me. It belongs to me!

And so I offer you this information, this suggestion, this inspiration – on this day, on this day when consciousness opens one more step; when more human beings once again decide for themselves: YES, I choose a soft breath. I choose to feel secure within my life, right now within this moment.

And I, Sophia, accompany you on this path into your own wisdom, into your own depth, into your own magnificence, the blossoming of your soul in this world. I accompany you and each human being who feels deep within: it is enough. I have worked hard enough, suffered long enough, gave up enough. I am ready for something new. I am ready for a new melody in my life, ready for the love of my soul, ready for joy. So ready; ready as never before.

And this willingness is what calls me into this space. This willingness – within this now moment allows me to be here and to share with you.

And I love you so much – so much. I accompany each one of you on this path to a new beginning; on this path to joy.

And so we begin together.

Part 2 – Questions and answers with Sophia

And so we begin together….

…with questions and answers, this time when we can share, when you can come so close with everything that concerns you – with everything that is important to you and where I can show you the answers that are already waiting within you.

You have many answers within you and I only show you one of these answers, one of these answers that are possible of many. You are the maestro who finally decides: YES, this melody, I let this melody enter into my life. You are the one who may weave this new melody into your life, let it pour in like the water that surrounds us – during our gathering, during our shared time today.

And I invite you to come so close – so close to yourself, so close to me and just be here and feel for a moment; perceive your energy; the energy of the earth; the consciousness of the human beings. Just feel for a moment.

To perceive the world that you live in, without judging it, without fighting it; just perceive it for a moment. Perceive it like a picture, like a picture that you pass by and observe and that is allowed to touch you. Right now. Just as you are beginning to choose joy and to realize that there is so much more for you, for your life – so much more abundance that was hidden so far. Abundance that was invisible, so much joy that has been forgotten. Joy that hasn’t had a place in this world.

And as you discover that there is so much more for you and as you begin to bring this new melody into your life; the world, the consciousness of all human beings will begin to bring in a new melody also. A new potential from many possible potentials. A new path, a new abundance, a new joy.

And this potential is available for each human being – not only for a few that awaken, for a few who work hard on themselves and have searched and experienced a lot.

This potential is available for each single human being on this earth. For a woman who lives in a little village in Africa who may realize suddenly: there is so much more love, so much more abundance for me that I don’t have to struggle to earn, that no one can give to me but me. I can begin to invite it into my life – breathe it in tenderly, like water, breathe it in tenderly.

Maybe there is a man in Russia who lives somewhere in a small town – in the countryside – who looks out of the window one day and sees a bird passing by, hover by his window and who feels suddenly: there is so much more for me, so much more that I can say YES to, so much more joy, and he begins in that moment to let this new melody pour in to his life.

Maybe there is a little boy in China; in this country where so much is happening right now, where so much new is being prepared beneath the surface. And maybe while this little boy is learning in school or working at home, his heart suddenly opens and he knows: there is so much more for me. There is a love that doesn’t want to limit me, that doesn’t want to control me. There is an invitation, an invitation saying: Come on! Accept even more joy for yourself, even more laughter, even more abundance, even more wonderful experiences for yourself. Everywhere in this world, on this beautiful earth.

And maybe somewhere in South America there is an older woman who suddenly perceives: There is something that I have forgotten. There is something that fascinates me, that lifts my spirits, that makes me want to sing and dance, that begins to touch me and says: Come on, come on – there is so much more. So much more love, so much more joy, so much more abundance waiting for me – that belongs only to me.

And this potential is quite tender yet, quite young yet but it is ready to embrace each human being in this moment and each moment that follows.

And you are invited to perceive for a moment: this is the blossoming of the earth. This potential is available for every single human being. And nobody has to earn it and nobody has to study it or read a lot to understand it. And nobody has to fight for it. This potential is here right now. And this potential brings peace into your life, brings love and safety and security into your world. And this potential brings peace into the world in which you live – safety and security, a new hope – a new path, a new energy, a new joy on this earth,. You are all a part of it.

And I, Sophia, enter here in order to contribute my part –to make my melody, my voice, my wisdom tangible. To make it tangible for all those who are ready for this new potential. And it is not better or worse than what you have known before. Let yourself feel: there is so much love for you.

I love you so much, no matter which potential you choose – no matter which melody you invite into your life, no matter which path you walk. And so we enter here – together – today.

And I am looking forward to answering your questions. Questions that have been collected; questions that don’t have meaning only for the one who asks – but for many, many others as well.

And so we invite the first question.

Question 1:

Dear Sophia, why does my heart close up over and over again so that I’m not able to feel either my own love or that of spirit?

Sophia:

A wonderful question that you ask me – that you ask us, all of those who have gathered here today in this space. And we answer this with a question to you: Why don’t you stay in your openness, why don’t you stay in your love? Why don’t you stay in your awareness?

Let yourself be with this question for a moment. Why? And it’s not about pressuring yourself to stay within your centre and forcing yourself to feel. And it’s not about pressuring yourself, forcing yourself to open up. It’s about taking a look at how much joy is in my life? How loving is my life for me?

The more loving your life is the easier it is to be present in your life. The more small joys you permit yourself, and especially you who asked this question – the more small joys you allow yourself each day, the more this aspect that is not happy within your life yet, that doesn’t feel safe yet, that doesn’t feel secure yet, that isn’t allowed to play the way it would like to play yet – the more this aspect will feel comfortable and sink deeper into your body and into your life. You will discover that this aspect will stay. Not because you pressure it, not because you have released some blockage but because you say YES to joy, because you say YES to play and to pleasure within your life.

Thank you.

Question 2:

Hello Sophia, I’m so happy that you are here with us now. I have a question. You’ve talked about the many stars that are just waiting to be discovered. During the last few weeks I have become more and more aware of how hard it is for me to receive this gift. I feel a lot of resistance within me. On one hand I would love to discover them and finally start really living. I mean this is an important part of me – that’s why I’m here. On the other hand I feel that I don’t deserve it, that I’m not worthy and that I’m not ready yet.

All these excuses just keep me from being myself. What can I do to accept my power and my talents and be able to live them instead of letting them simply be there like unused disc space and continue borrowing from others?

Sophia:

Oh, my dear. This is a brilliant question and a question that concerns many many human beings right now. The source of this question leads us back to Atlantis - leads us back to the belief that was created in Atlantis: What if many many human beings began working, all began working hard and living in a certain way? What if all these human beings would work so that the whole society gains more knowledge, more prosperity – is lead on a better course? And here you see what happens when we follow the more intellectual aspect of the self. The rational aspect says: Wouldn’t it be practical if everybody wanted the same? – organized and efficient. Wouldn’t it be easier and more profitable for this society if there were many many human beings who are only here to work? And in Atlantis they began this experiment.

They began this experiment by persuading the majority of human beings to work, to not ask questions, to not accept anything for themselves but to live for only one reason, namely to serve the society and those who control it.

And this experiment – this experiment allowed many human beings to gain experience for themselves; to experience how it is to live only for others – not to want anything for yourself, not to accept anything for yourself; to get up in the morning and to work, work, work like a robot and find joy in this.

This was not like the joy that comes from your heart, from your natural being but a forced joy. To be forced to find joy in something else, to believe: I cannot choose for myself. Someone else decides whether I may be rich or not. Someone else decides if I have the right to be happy or not.

And we invite each one of you to feel: where have you buried this program deep within you? Where do you still accept this belief as your truth? Where do you still serve a society that sunk in the ocean long ago; that was carried away by time long ago?

Many of you still follow this impulse: I must serve humanity. I must do what others expect of me. It is decided for me if I deserve joy or not, if I will be rewarded or punished.

Let yourself perceive: many of you perceive it as a kind of blind spot, as a kind of haze that you are unable to see through. A kind of paralysis seizes you when you think about choosing joy, doing things that come from your heart, that give you pleasure; that make your heart sing.

And we invite you to consider: do you still want to carry this old program around within you? Do you still want to believe: I’m not worthy. I don’t deserve it. It’s not for me. I only know the drudgery of working day in and day out. We invite you to consider.

Is this what you still want to experience?

Or do you decide for yourself – and that will feel strange and uncomfortable at first because you haven’t decided for yourself for such a long time. Do you decide for yourself: It is enough. I have followed this program long enough, I have given my all to others long enough. It is enough. Enough. This is my life, my life of integration, of joy. My new beginning that belongs only to me.

We invite you to say YES to a life beyond this program, beyond this small cage, beyond this line that you have drawn in the sand. Nobody can force you. You can’t figure it out, you can’t fight it and win – you can only realize: It is enough. Enough.

I want to live my life for myself.

And to you who asked this question: we invite you to make the decision for yourself.

Thank you for this question.

Question 3:

Dear Sophia! Can you tell us something about bringing the feminine wisdom into our outer world? I can imagine a flexible democracy (feminine wisdom) in our outer world where minorities won’t exist as they do today with the current form of rigid democracy (masculine wisdom).

Do you have a suggestion of what my first step might be in bringing the feminine wisdom into our outer world – for example writing a book or working with the consciousness of individual human beings? Where should I begin?

Sophia:

We thank you for this question.

We invite you to set the priority on yourself – to put yourself in the centre of your own life and to consider: Where are you able to open up for the feminine energy, for this new wisdom of your soul? Where are you able to let yourself be held? Where can you feel that there is so much more for yourself – that you can breathe in and accept

for yourself.

And we invite you to consider how you avoid your own joy with this very clever question. You ask for joy for the whole world, for a new beginning for the whole earth, for other humans, for society. And I ask you: where is your new beginning within you? What brings you joy? What gives you pleasure? What helps you to leap out of bed in the morning saying: YES how wonderful! Today I can write or paint something. Today I can work and speak with other people. Today I can dance and laugh.

What is it that fulfils you?

You see: Then you will move forward. And you smooth the way for others when you say: I choose my joy. And the world can follow you. And all your aspects can follow you. And other human beings can follow you and say: I like this – this joy, this inspiration, this creativity. I like it a lot. And even society can follow you. But it doesn’t work the other way around. It doesn’t work to wait for society to change first, for the world to change first.

You start! It begins with you, within you. And the more you can say YES to your joy, the more this melody will be audible in the world, felt in the world and many, many human beings can begin to follow this melody in their own lives.

Thank you.

Question 4:

Hello Sophia! I have a question. I would like to know why I can’t feel much passion in my life. Do other human beings have anything to offer me? Children maybe, but adults – as I am? I am 25 years old. That’s not always how I feel. So often I feel different at my soul level, so removed. Could you explain that? How can I deal with these emotions?

Sophia:

A wonderful question. And we invite you to feel. It is your task to nourish yourself. It is your task to accept joy and beauty in your life. The world is not able to give it to you. Other human beings cannot give it to you. Even the children that surround you – even they are not able to give it to you. Let yourself perceive: this task belongs only to you. You are the maestro within your life and you decide if your melody is a melody of emptiness, a melody that makes you feel separate, that makes you reject yourself and resist what is or if you choose a melody that brings you joy– that helps you to say YES to your life and to yourself – to all that you are.

We invite you to feel: What haven’t you said YES to yet?

What is it that you haven’t allowed yourself?

You look out at the world and say: I can’t see it anywhere. And I tell you: Accept it. Breathe it in. Let it pour into your life. Let your life blossom into this paradise where you feel secure, where you open up, where you say: This is who I am and this is what I enjoy! And this is how I want to spend my life. And other human beings will notice and ask you: How do you do that? How do you manage to have so much joy in your life?

Thank you for your question.

Question 5:

For more than 30 years I’ve been an elementary school teacher and I love working with the children. As long as I keep the classroom door closed and I am alone with my children, everything is fine. But if someone opens the door and all the rules and the standard tests pour in I always feel quite powerless because I know how much fear the children are flooded with. My question is: Can you advise me on what I should do? Should I leave the state-run system or should I bring new teaching methods into it? Which potential can you see for me?

Sophia:

We thank you very much. We thank you for your question.

At this moment many many human beings are at the same point as you are now and notice how much tension the children are exposed to and how much fear surrounds them. And we invite you to go ahead and show these children that they don’t need to be afraid – they don’t need to fear adults, they don’t need to fear this system that wants to control, that wants to have power over them – they don’t need to fear the fear that surrounds them.

You see: the system feels the New that pours in and the New that today’s children bring in so the system defends itself, becomes rigid and begins to tighten its fists towards the children. However if you remain centered – if you are in your compassion – if you are in your soft breath, in your soft breath … as soft as the water, as soft as the waves, where there is no resistance, no struggle, no “that’s not right” or “its got to be different” but if you are simply there – totally present, smiling and relaxed – then you can go ahead and show these children:

I am not afraid. This system is afraid. Many human beings are afraid of the New. The whole earth holds some fear of the new and what is going to come. I am not afraid. I am totally present. I am free. I am in my joy and nothing or nobody can take me away from my centre.

You see: You are so deeply connected with yourself. So deeply connected with your love, with your joy in your blossoming garden that the children that you are working with can feel: there is a new way. We don’t have to withdraw or fight.

We can arrive within our centre and feel: no system in the world can decide for me.

Giving up and withdrawing won’t lead you to this insight and fighting won’t lead you to this insight. Only a person who remains in their centre and breathes softly can have this insight. Nothing or nobody can control me. I am the maestro of my life.

It is this strength, this new authenticity, this new dignity that the children are looking for. And you may begin with yourself and go ahead from there.

We thank you for your question.

Question 6:

How can I become a channel for the spiritual world? How can I hear myself? I want to be a healer, a teacher. But I want to always have the right answer for myself and for others. Not just facts that come from my mind. I want to be authentic and present and I want to lead others to their own insights with love. What is standing in my way and what can I do about it? For I am ready.

Sophia:

And this is ONE aspect of your soul speaking; ONE aspect that is very ambitious, that has very many expectations of you and an exact picture of what it means to be a healer or a teacher.

And I invite you to feel within the center of you. There is a deeper wisdom that has no idea, no expectation, that doesn’t have these rigid restrictions but is simply there and invites you: Come on! Come into your centre. Come within and let yourself perceive. Each time you allow joy for yourself your life blossoms, your soul blossoms – YOU blossom! You are a teacher! You are a healer! And the more you let yourself arrive within this world the more the healer and the teacher that you really are can blossom.

This one small aspect of your soul doesn’t hold the answer for you. It puts you through the same experience over and over again – the same experience where you determine exactly what is expected of you and that you are not able to give it, and that it cannot happen. And then you turn around and question yourself and doubt yourself and it starts all over again.

And I invite you to step out of this cycle and to arrive even more within your centre – there, where it is still. Your soul doesn’t have a strict idea of how you should be; it has no expectations whatsoever. Your soul is there like a loving mama, who holds her child and says: I love you. No matter what you do, no matter how you choose to do it – I love you! It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter to me. The way that you are blossoming is perfect. Each step that you walk on your path is perfect.

And I, Sophia, invite you to follow THIS voice, this safety and security that says: I have already arrived! I don’t have to struggle any more. I don’t have to let go of anything. I allow myself to arrive and just be within my centre!

We thank you for your question.

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And with this we would like to conclude today’s questions and answers. We want to invite you to feel how much love we have shared today – how much joy we have shared with you today.

It is a joy for me, Sophia, to look at you and to see you on your path, to see where you are right now. And I know with everything that I am: You have arrived! You are at the right place and the joy of your heart is already yours! Nobody can give it to you and nobody can take it from you. It belongs to you, the love, the abundance, the joy. They belong to you!

And together with you I am waiting for the moment when you say: YES, I accept joy for myself again. I breathe it in, softly and tenderly … softly and tenderly ... breath by breath.

And so we begin together…


Translated into English by Silvia Striebeck

Edited by Eva Smarda Carney
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© 2008, Lea Hamann, Königstein im Taunus
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About channeling:
Channeling is about receiving energy. It is an invitation for you, dear reader, to open for more of yourself and become more conscious. As you read this text you are most welcome to decide for yourself what feels right for you and what doesn’t. There is no such thing as an absolute truth that is valid for everyone. There are many truths and you may choose the one that resonates with you today. On your path of spiritual awakening this may indeed change. Sophia’s extends her love and support if you wish to receive it, right where you are in this moment - you don’t have to do a thing in return.

About Sophia:
Sophia is a feminine energy supporting the awakening and evolution of humanity with her understanding and wisdom. Her messages are simple and profound. Lea Hamann has been working for some time in her personal and professional life with Sophia’s energy. In 2007 Lea started to channel Sophia publicly. Sophia has accompanied us since then in monthly channels called the Sophia-Series. She assists us in rediscovering the feminine energy of our soul.
Feminine energy doesn’t necessarily mean being female. Both men and women have a feminine part of their soul. This feminine principle helps us to receive abundance, to develop our creations and to live our life in deep trust. In today’s world most humans have a tendency to be imbalanced as they rely much more on their masculine energy. Sophia has emphasized many times how important it is to be connected to the feminine energy in order to enjoy a loving and balanced life.
The monthly channels of the Sophia-Series are available free of charge on the website www.eelea.de You are invited to let yourself be touched by Sophia’s love.

About Lea Hamann:
Lea Hamann, born in 1982, works as a teacher and compassionate guide to humans on their path of spiritual awakening. She teaches conscious breathing and the re-connection to the feminine energy through private sessions and workshops. Sophia’s wisdom is an inseparable part of Lea’s work. Sophia’s love is always present in her sessions and workshops. Lea Hamann is currently living with her partner Matthias Kreis in Königstein, Germany, near Frankfurt.

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