"Dancing Together" Stephanie K. Nead

From a recent session:  With permission, I share it here.

Question:  How to create prosperity, abundance…of money, of joy, of love?

It is to differentiate from the you, you were taught.  It is to differentiate from the you who feels so small and dark and weak and hurt, and cleave to the strength of your soul, of your gifts, of your mind, of your Being.  To know that your soul is always there in all its purity, beauty and strength, that love is always with you.

We know there are times when you feel you cannot trust, have faith, feel loved, when you feel that all of your fear and pain comes between you and communion, comes between you and Creation.  Yet, everything that you need is there.  All of Creation, and all the allies you need, are ever with you. 

Be in process: feel yourself, be true to yourself.   Feel the negative experiences of this child you were, this adult you have been, what you went through, how painful it was.  Look at and learn the imprints it gave you, see how you have lived by those.  These things are important. 

It is important to breathe this, to sweat it, to swim it, to work it, to walk it, to yoga it, to scream it, to cry it, to be with you, to be with the you who has felt hurt, and to nourish and nurture that you in a way that you never received before and that only you, only you, with G-d, with Creation, only you can give this to yourself, because it is from you that you need to know you can get it at all times, the one who never leaves you. 

This is a very human process.  Pain does not mean you are wrong or bad.  Often it means that a healthy part of self has been pressed down for a long time.  It struggles to rise and be free.  In your learned holdings, you feel pain. 

See it as a process to freedom, a process you can only engage by engaging, by breathing, being present.  So often adults do to themselves what they were taught as children: that freedom comes through bondage, the bondage of suppression, repression, “pretend,” denial. 

Thus, the free self, the full soul, the life-force of full breath and embodiment/incarnation remains unexpressed, and the struggle takes new forms. 

You must clear the pain, you must listen to it; you must be with your whole self, the whole experience of your body and being and life, so your soul, with your gifts, can come through your body and Being and life with greater and greater clarity.  It will bring wholeness and richness, nectar and nourishment, more and more and more as you clear what needs to be cleared, by listening to yourself, to what you experience, giving your ear to yourself. 

You can give to yourself the listening.  You can give to yourself the truth of your experience and your feelings.  You can listen to you and care for you, own and honor and protect and nurture and love you in the truth of your experience.  In that, you will heal and you will bring in more light and more openness, more expansion of your soul and your Being, and you will gain confidence.

Most humans lack confidence.  The part of you that is wounded and hurt feels so weak, feels incapable of doing the work of your soul.  You see it, you feel it, you know it is there, but you are more grounded in the pain, in the ways it has bound you and ground you down.

And so you need to be present with yourself, you need to clear out the pain.  Through this, you gain confidence that pain is not going to overwhelm you, is not going to overtake you.  You gain confidence as you have more and more space in yourself, in your life, as you have more energy in your days for the flowing of your soul, for the energies of your soul to come forth and be.  You gain confidence that you will follow through, that you will be able to stay in that light of Being, that you will be able to be the wholeness of your soul, because the pain will no longer be constantly threatening to surface and drown and overwhelm you. 

This is a necessary process, this relieving, this letting the pain out like opening a dam, letting it move, releasing it from your body so that you can be free.  It is in openness; it is in letting your cells and your body speak and release, through your movement, your energy, your thoughts.  Through this you grow clear for the flowing of your soul, in all the ways that your soul wishes to flow. 

Know, learn, realize, feel that your gifts are always there.  Your gifts are always with you.  The strength of your gifts is always there. The truth of your gifts is always there.  The need is to live in genuineness, in truth, in clarity of communion within yourself, and to bring forth who you are with a clear, rooted, groundedness, without dishonesty, without hype, without persona, without pretense.  You can learn to do this. 

Be in your path, be true to your soul, and in being true to your soul, remember that your soul is in your gifts, not in your pain.  You pain is in your body.  Your pain is not your soul.  Your beauty, your gifts, your strength, your aliveness is your soul.

In this, you will remember life and light, happiness and joy, prosperity.  It will bring your own love into the world, and in bringing your own love into the world, you will draw to you a love song…and in that there is abundance, there is prosperity, there is care, there is joy, there is all.