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Our Friends Circle Talk
November 10, 2013

We will talk about how the energies work within each of you, about tides coming in and going back out within lives that shift and change.

Right now there is a lot of shifting happening in your world. The energetic shifts of your seasons are becoming more profound, more deeply felt inside each of you. Transformations feel more potent and challenges feel more intense. Gifts feel more poignant. It is fine tuning of the energies. Within your world there is a dissonance between the way your society and culture is still going about things, which is clunky — like a bull in a china shop — and the way in which the energies are shifting, working and weaving in your world, growing finer and finer.

There are times when you feel as though you are sitting in an audience where the violin section is playing a divine, blissful symphony, yet somehow the wind section seems to be trying to play by a completely different, chaotic rhythm, while the drum section is off somewhere else altogether. One part of your mind is trying to follow the sublime melody of the violin section, your other side feels wracked by the dissonance and cacophony coming from other parts of the orchestra. You feel this in your body, because your body responds to that very fine quality of energy and to the dissonant energy.

This is a place for breathing. It is a place for being willing to be present. This is a reverse kind of shifting, as the energies create very fine, beautiful melodies of what you would call a high vibration alongside the intensity of what you feel as a disruptive, clunky, unpleasant vibration. The fine vibration goes within and sifts upwards anything in you that is part of the cacophony, that is part of the dissonance. This would be anything that has been put away for a long time. It can be anger or grief. It can even be capped joy, capped loveliness, capped love and laughter. Any way you have been hiding something from yourself. The fine vibration with raise it up, and the intense cacophony will prevent you from covering it over again. So, in a sense, these vibrations are harmonious. Although it does not feel harmonious, these vibrations are acting in harmony to help you come clearer.

The only way to grow clearer is to stand in that experience, which can be at times exquisitely uncomfortable, breathe with it, allow to rise up what is there. Be a compassionate witness to yourself; speak to yourself with love. Speak to whatever is happening in your mind, your body, your emotions, your reactions, what you feel rising up that you might rather not be there. Speak with kindness, compassion and sweetness. Hold it all with loving kindness, even when you are tired and you would rather kick it away from you. Be present and breathe with whatever is. Know that whatever rises up will indeed pass away. It will pass away more fully and more quickly if you are able to not lock down against it, as you are able to breathe through it, as you are able to hold compassionate, loving presence with yourself.

When you are not holding a compassionate response to yourself, a loving response to yourself, you are automatically contracting and constricting. Constriction creates binding, binding creates further dissonance, and dissonance creates all kinds of pain. Breathe and be present.

There is pain that comes up that you can only breathe through, sometimes again and again; receive it as a teacher, listen with loving attention to yourself, to this pain. Let it soften and temper you. It is at your service, though it may not feel so to you in the moment. If you can be loving with yourself, you will begin to be able to inquire of and under the pain to a place where healing and release happen. You have to stay present and breathing to do this.

When you find it hard to bring yourself back to a place of breathing presence, know that resistance happens; there are times when it is very difficult, particularly in physical pain. It can also be very difficult in emotional pain or thought-form pain. All of these are times to wrap yourself in your own love, in your own angelic presence, give yourself profound love and kindness, call yourself whatever words of endearment are meaningful to you, that you can hear from you, that cause you to feel your shoulders relax, to feel that you have a bit more breathing room.

It is all an experience. Remember always that your experience is, in one sense, uniquely your own, so very personal to you. At the same time, your experience is always a human experience. Allow yourself to breathe into the truth that what you experience you share with all human beings. They may not all experience exactly what or as you do, but all human beings share experiences of both joy and pain, of love and fear. You are not personally singled out for either joy or suffering. You are not personally wrong to feel whatever it is you feel or to have whatever experience you are having. You are in the experience of being human, and you share that not only with all other human beings on the planet now, but with all who have ever been. In that there can always be a sense of connection and a sense of support. Remember, in this shared experience there is no blame or shame.