Spirituality

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Return July 21, 2024

By Stephanie K. Nead

Our Friends  July 21, 2024

Dear Ones,

It feels like time to begin again, to bring to you what comfort we may and what insight is possible. 

We would say first…to love yourselves, to love one another. Whenever you think about anyone, anywhere in the world, imagine before you a person of that place, that tribe, that group. It can be an imagined person — it does not matter. Imagine them before you as someone who is the dearest of friends, whom you love…and just love them. Just send them love. Not your personal love, but the love that is in you, not only as one human being to another, but as one creation of this earth, one cell of the body and soul and Being of this earth. 

Just as cells blink in and out of life and expression, so to do all things of this earth. Your lives are but the life of a cell of this earth, each cell needed and important. As you know, as your science is beginning to discover, cells that turn against the other cells of the body create illness. And so, it is very important that even though the liver cell does not seem to be connected to the big toe cell, in fact they are part of one body, and it is essential that they love one another, that they feel one another, that they can commune with one another, even though they do not reside in the same part of the body within which they live. 

It is the same for you, with any other being on this planet, not only another human being, but any animal creature, any part of your oceans, or under your earth, or your forests, or your sky. It is essential that you be at peace, that you act with good will, that you give a love that is beyond your personal love, but has to do with how you would love someone who has been your enemy in life but who you find dying of a terrible cancer, alone. Suddenly you feel rise within you a compassion, an empathy, and a love for this person who has been in your life, part of your life, even as an antagonist. You sit with them and you love them in a way you did not know possible.

It is like this with every other cell of the body of this earth, of which you are all a part, none better, none worse, none more important, none less important. And by that we mean even the creatures of the earth, the ants and the slugs, and the beings in your waters, and every thing of this earth. 

Remember too that you live in millennial tides; you are living in time, which is finite and exists within eternity, and so you live within great tides, like the ocean, that ebb and flow — tides that you ride and are sometimes tossed by. Do your best not to fear the tides. Do your best to ride them. 

The most important thing is to be kind. Kindness is a day-to-day, moment-to-moment act of love. If there is one thing in your world that is an underpinning of Creation, of God, of Spirit, of Mystery, it is Love. With that Love is Creativity and Curiosity, because love is infinitely creative. Were it not, this earth, this universe, these multiverses would not exist. They are an act of creativity and curiosity. They exist as expressions of the question what are the many forms, and possibilities, and opportunities of Love, of that spark of life that comes from what you would call love, as a quality and a condition of loving. 

Love can never really be just love. It is loving; it is active; it is a verb, or it does not exist, it is nothing. The loving that is of the greatness of Creation is beyond your imagining, but is not beyond your feeling, your sensing, even if only for moments here and there. And when you do feel it and sense it, that is an act of Grace, a moment of Grace that you hold, not tightly, but you drop into, expand into, experience. If it’s only for three seconds, it still transforms. Time is not what is critical. It is the experience that is essential. 

So try to stay out of your fearful minds. Try to stay in your heart that is one with this earth, with this creation, not only of earth but of universes, and know that yours is the life of a mosquito; you are a cell. This is not to say that you are not important. You are! Just as every cell that lives in your body is essential to the working and health of your body, so too are you essential to this earth in this moment, now. Be at peace. Reside in loving. Know that you are going to experience the whole rainbow of emotions and that none are wrong. It is the dropping back into Creation and Wholeness that is right. And remember, never judge another; never point fingers, never use the word “should,” because you do not know another’s experience. 

We love you, beloveds. All is well.

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What is True

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Whether you believe yourself a success or a failure, either is meaningless. All that is true is that you are a child of God and therefore pure and Holy.

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Is God Only Love?

Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

Part I

When someone says that God (or Goddess or Spirit — whatever word is chosen) is not only love, that God is other things as well: anger, justice, etc. he is misunderstanding what love is in its pure form.  And this is not his fault.  It is the result of language and culture, using a human word that is applied in many contexts to name many different expressions, everything from kindness and affection or strong like, to passionate human sexual love, to joy and connection between a human and an animal, to the deepest and most profound communion of souls between any two Beings, with the Universe, or with all Creation.  

Thus, all of the filters that go into the word “love” are projected onto the imagined God.  Throughout all your world, God is always only imagined.  While you touch It/God, your human mind cannot encompass It.  It’s not that you do not experience God in that touch; it’s that your human mind cannot fully grasp or retain that experience.  You retain it in your soul; you retain it as a beacon; you retain it as a felt-sense memory.  But it is so very far beyond words that stories, poetry, art, music, dance are all you have to try to describe it: images, metaphor, motion these things make you feel the “Yes!”  The “Yes!” is Love in its one true form. 

For private 1-1 time with Stephanie & Our Friends, please email sknp4710@aol.com

All sessions are recorded and emailed to you.

Couple & Group sessions are also available.

Stop by https://innerteacher.net/contact-and-session-information/

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As the Light is reborn…

By Stephanie K. Nead

By Stephanie K. Nead

As we move through solstice and into the lengthening light.

In the fall, seeds drop, burrowing into the Earth’s embracing soil, to nestle, be watered by early winter rains, to rot and thus open. As the dark of our northern hemisphere approaches, when all is most fallow, beneath the surface something akin to a miracle is occurring. In the deep dark cold soil, new life is rising. Out of the cracked skin of rotted seed, from within the nourishment at its core — built up, stored light of summer’s sun — new life presses forth and now pushes toward that light which is returning to our skies as the days lengthen. This is such a potent time!

What seed did you drop this fall? What seed needed to rot in cold, wet soil of winter; what needed to compost into new life? And what is being born? What new growth are you feeling under your skin, in your Holy heartbeat, beneath the soil of your life? Can you feel it? Can you speak of it at all? Perhaps not. Let us hold this rebirthing for one another over the next week and a half, during this most powerful time. Let us listen and vision deep within ourselves during this dark time; what is waiting and wanting our attention in order to be born? Listen for its guidance: how and what is the deepest you asking in support of this birthing?

Let us remember that on the other side of our Earth, in the southern hemisphere, we are balanced in our rebirthing by those who are celebrating the fulness and abundance of summer, when all they seeded half a year past is now pouring forth new and vibrant life.

Blessings to you on Solstice, as the Earth is reborn. Blessings on Christmas as so many celebrate a rebirth through a story that speaks to their imagination and soul. Blessings that your soul is always nourishes and held with love…
Stephanie

Our next Our Friends Circle Call will be Sunday, January 5th 2014.  

Anyone is welcome on this call.  Please feel free to forward this email to others. 

The call will run approximately an hour and a half and will start promptly at 4:00.  After a short introduction, Our Friends will share a short talk, then the call will open to questions & answers.   I will record the call.  If you would like a copy of the recording, send me an email after the call at sknp4710@aol.com. 

A suggested donation for the call is $25-$50.  I am happy to receive PayPal.  You can log in using my sknp4710@aol.com email.   Or, my snail mail is Stephanie Nead, POB 923, Talent, OR  97540. 

 The call-in number for Our Friends’ Circle is 218-632-0244.  The access code is 363636#.

Call for a private Our Friends’ Circle for you and friends (generally $20/person for a 90 minute call-session with a $100 minimum,) as well as individual and couple sessions (generally $125/$175 for a 60-75 minute call-session.)  Please contact me to make arrangements.  Email or phone is welcome.  541-292-9390. 

 

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“Tides” Our Friends Circle Call November 10, 2013

Gaia's sky...a marvel of Creation between earth, sky and water...all in the making of Gaia...all held under her dome...

Gaia’s sky…a marvel of Creation between earth, sky and water…all in the making of Gaia…all held under her dome…

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.

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Aligning the Body to Wellness

Sacred Counsel with Stephanie Nead
http://www.innerteacher.net
http://www.stephanieknead.com
stephanieknead@aol.com
541-292-9390

Bodysoul nourishment...

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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Next Our Friends Circle Call Sunday, June 30th 4:00p.m. PST

Sacred Counsel with Stephanie Nead
http://www.innerteacher.net
http://www.stephanieknead.com
stephanieknead@aol.com
541-292-9390

Rogue Valley Sunset in Fall...Nature's layers... By Stephanie K. Nead

By Stephanie K. Nead

Welcome to
Our Friends’ Circle

 Hello Friends,

Sunday, June 30th at 4:00p.m PST will be our next Circle with Our Friends.  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 (generally $35/person for a 90 minute call-session with a $150 minimum,) as well as individual or couple sessions (generally $125/$175 for a 60-75 minute call-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,
I hope to meet you on the call Sunday, June 30th at 4:00p.m.!
Love,
Stephanie
 

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“Our Friends” Describe Themselves and Their Service

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The soul longs to be seen
The heart longs to be loved
The mind longs to be heard
The body longs to be felt
 
All is a longing for Divine touch
All we bring is Divine touch
 
The seeing of the soul
The loving of the heart
The hearing of the mind…the thoughts, the feelings
The felt sense and presence with the body
 
Each a consciousness in its own right
Interwoven into a whole
In dialogue and communion with itself
And with the One who created All
 
We come with a reminder of the All
Of the Divine loving touch
That is the spark at your core
And the longing and dream of your lifetimes

 

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Purpose of This Inner Teacher

Often unnoticed, yet always there magnetically guiding our way, influencing us more profoundly than we imagine. So it is with Creation’s many gifts…all mysterious even when we think we understand…
Photo by Stephanie K. Nead

During a session, Our Friends were asked why they come to me/us.  Here is their answer.

We come because every soul is special; every soul has wonder and wonderfulness to bring to the world.  It is through your love, through the things you are passionate about, that matter to you, things that bring you joy and nourishment and awaken your heart, these are your purpose.  We come to support and assist you in living your soul embodied in this life.  We help you grow in skills and vision, help you clarify where you are going and how to move forward; we help you develop tools for your journey.  We help you remove some clutter–some stones from the path, get rid of some litter, so you won’t be distracted.

Note to friends of Our Friends

If you find value in this message and site, please pass it along to family and friends, post it on your Facebook or other web pages.  If you find value in your private sessions with Our Friends, please share your experience, here and with those you know.  Feel free to pass along my contact information.  I am asking you to spread the word.  I love sharing this work.  It nourishes and energizes me as it does others.  I am grateful to be able to do this.

My email is sknp4710@aol.com.

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Work

One soul nourishment of my own…my textile art.

Work needs to nourish you, needs to be what nourishes your heart, your soul, and brings you into a greater richness of life, of giving and receiving.