Sacred Counsel with Stephanie Nead
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Bodysoul nourishment…
This share, from our June 30th call, follows closely the theme of our June 16th call. If you have not read that post, you might want to scroll down and read it along with this one. Many Blessings to you, Stephanie
This Sunday, July 14th at 4:00p.m PST will be our next Circle with Our Friends. See below…
Aligning the Body to Wellness
Bodily nourishment and pleasure: What deeply nourishes, and therefore brings happiness to, the body and the bodysoul has a great deal to do with wellness.
Your bodies deal with a great deal of complexity in your world and your time. They are generally made to be a specific manifestation of your Essence as it is coming into this particular place and time to express. Your Essence is like a prism. When you come into a lifetime, you are choosing to refract the Light of your Essence through a particular facet of that prism. Your body is built and designed to help you manifest that particular rainbow of Light in a given lifetime. It is much more than a partnership. It’s not so much the joining of two, body and soul, or body and Essence, but they are one in a sense. Your body is exuded from your Essence and the Oneness of Creation. It is a very specific, beautiful manifestation.
And when you come into this life, you come through the process of being gestated in your mother’s womb. In that process you begin to be introduced to, and your body begins to be introduced to, the impact of thoughts and feelings. You are also impacted by the specific DNA – not just the genetic inheritance, but the energetic and emotional inheritance, because what is not yet fully recognized is that there is an emotional and energetic imprint to your DNA as well as to physical body. These things come in; they are bit like information to the soul, to the embodiment in a given lifetime when you are in the womb and gestating. And then of course you emerge, and you are then affected by and imprinted by the many the experiences and emotions of childhood and growing up. All of this becomes part of what is being worked with in you, as you, in this life.
And then your body is also very much “ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It is very much of the Earth. You are made of dirt and stardust. What impacts the earth is going to impact your bodies. One of the things to remember at this time, on this planet, is that human bodies are as impacted by the toxins to the earth — the things that have occurred through human choice and through those you would consider nature’s occurrences. Each body is unique and is going to be affected and impacted differently.
It is the “I” part of you that thinks of yourself as an “I.” The “I’ who thinks “This is my body” is not much in control. The bodysoul is an ongoing occurrence and emergence; it is interweaving and inter-breathing with all we have described. It is sort of its own kind of organism. The everyday “I” can commune with the bodysoul, can be present with it, can sort of engage and interweave with it, but the “I” does not have the control the “I” would like to have.
And so we say that in terms of wellness, there are the things you know about eating foods that are healthy, there is working your body and breathing and these things. Yet, the bodysoul needs more than anything the nourishment of resting back; what we would describe as a backflip into your body and into your Being that comes about through deep meditation, through rooting and grounding.
Oftentimes when people think about rooting and grounding, they are thinking about it. When we speak of it, we call it a back flip into the body, because it is like when you do a backflip into the water. You go into the water and the water completely surrounds you. It is similar with really rooting and grounding. It does not come from the mind; it comes from a deep backflip to experience the body from the inside, as an underwater swimmer experiences the water, and in that having a sense of connection and communion to the body, the cells, the bones, the blood, the earth, and the Spirit that enlivens them all, very deeply.
Wellness comes through deep rooting, through the nourishment of soul that comes through breathing deeply and fully, and the moving of energy, the moving of emotion. In much of your world today, there is not a natural movement of emotion. By that, we don’t mean venting or expressing every emotion to another person. We mean the ability to be fully present — in that backflip way — to the feelings, the felt sense of what is arising within the body, whether or not it makes sense to the mind, whether or not it is comfortable, whether or not it is even recognized for exactly what it is. The ability to keep the breath open from the very top of the head to the very deepest places in the belly, to feel the block or holding or contraction when it catches in certain places, to be able to be loving with that, be compassionate and accepting with it, and to continue to relax around it, to inquire of it, to breathe and work with it until it releases. Sometimes that means sitting in meditation, sometimes in deep breathing; sometimes it means working the body hard physically to move energy and move emotion, or even to scream or to yell into a pillow. Sometimes it means to go to the art studio, the art place, where the energy can move through the experience of creative expression and be released, sometimes without a lot of conscious awareness at all, because the very act of being in the creative process moves so much energy that a great deal goes with it, and so it is cleansing on its own.
All of these things are very much about wellness and the body. In your culture and your world, there is so much holding; there is much contraction, much attempting to put the soul aside. Your culture tends to want to bring things to stillness, to contraction, to control. This creates a rigidity that can create tightness in the body, which leads to various kinds of suffering. It is a great learning how to bring your soul, your Essence’s expression in this lifetime, into your everyday life and each everyday moment. It is very challenging and difficult. Your culture and the ways your world works do not make it easier, and yet it is very possible to grow in this. This level of ensoulment and presence brings wellness to your body. Real wellness comes more than anything when the soul is fully present, attended to, activated, and honored. Then all embodied energies are ever in motion, ever breathing as in Creation, where everything is always in movement like the waves upon the shore.
This Sunday, July 14th at 4:00p.m PST will be our next Circle with Our Friends. Normally, these calls will take place every second and fourth Sunday at the same time. However, we will be skipping Sunday, July 28th due to a scheduling conflict.
Anyone is welcome on this call. Please feel free to forward this to others, whether or not they already know Our Friends.
The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00. You can come on the call as early as you wish. The line will be available. I will check in to see who is new to Our Friends, do a short introduction of myself and Our Friends then bring Our Friends in for the bulk of the call. They will offer a short talk and then the call will open to questions & answers. I will be recording the call. If you would like to receive a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com or the email listed above.
A suggested donation for the call is $15-$35. I am happy to receive PayPal. You can do so by logging in using my sknp4710@aol.com email. Or, my snail mail is Stephanie Nead, POB 923, Talent, OR 97540.
I am also available to provide private Our Friends’ Circle sessions for you and friends (a 90-minute session, normally $35 per person with a $150 minimum,) as well as individual or couple sessions (generally $125 or $175 for a 60-75 minute session.) Please contact me to make arrangements. Email or phone is welcome. 541-292-9390.
The call-in number for Our Friends’ Circle is 218-632-0244. You will be asked for an access code. It is 363636#.
Many blessings to you, Stephanie
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