Mother and Daughter Jade Trees

The Goddess Within Her

There were sprinkles in her hair. They glittered in the reflection of the moon and the lights surrounding the harbor. The only thing missing was fireworks. She felt a grandness and importance in the events transpiring around her. She felt like a witness to something truly grand.

And it was also a feeling that overcame her while she was taking a walk along a forested country road.

The sunlight glimmers off a million leaves and it becomes a hypnotizing frequency. One is lulled into a bliss. One experiences light in a multi-fractured display. It's like fireworks in a way.

The earth would be dark if it were not for those heavenly bodies that shine their light down upon us. Can you imagine the darkness? It seems that currently we are unable to generate our own light and are dependent on the light from objects in the sky. We make our own electrical lights but they carry only a fraction of the vibrations that natural celestial bodies give off.

She felt ever-so-briefly whole. It was a fleeting instance of seemingly accidental epiphany. The world, for a few minutes seemed strangely perfect.

Can you feel the light? We all know the light can be seen but can we feel it? While light may become apparent through our visual senses, there are many other dimensions that our corneas do not pick up.

Our eyeballs and noggin receive visual input. Our solar plexus receives feeling-tone frequency input. We see beauty with our eyes and we feel it with our gut.

Sitting across the table from a being that you connect with, you can travel to exotic locales without ever getting up from the table. We can experience a wide spectrum of feeling-tone vibrations. We can travel where ever we wish.

She looked at the mountain range and suddenly she saw it like she had never seen it before. Suddenly she remembered a big part of who she is. She merely had to see with open eyes and feel with a relaxed gut. She merely had to look into the mirror without any filters.

Look at your painting. Look at it as intensely as you can. It is your creation. Every part of the image is like a little door into a part of you. As we slowly open our doors we find that life is an outrageously wonderful gift. It is the one thing we are all given but which few of us truly embrace with all our beings.

Every choice is a choice of embracement. What will you embrace? What will you give life to? What will you surrender to?

In feeling the joy in every minute of life we've got to see and feel our reality in order to understand what it is we created. Connecting on a feeling-tone level we can bypass the restrictions of the noggin and the sheer sluggishness of human reason. We can feel the answers to our questions. We can feel the joy of creating our reality. Connecting on a feeling-tone level we can enter a state of one-ness where we can experience our connectedness with all other humans and all life.

The more we feel this state of one-ness with all things the more our feeling abilities expand. We quickly see that every little thing is a divine gift. We feel the fireworks even if we don't see them. It's an electricity we feel. It's called joy.

She looked at the mountains bathed in moonlight and starlight. Then she looked back the other way at the harbor and saw the moon and stars reflected in the water. If she had a mirror she could have seen what kind of light that she reflected. But she didn't have a mirror so she just felt that light radiating off of her. She felt it pouring out of her skin. She felt it washing over the harbor then, as she turned back towards the mountains, she felt it wash over the rugged contours of the mountains. Everywhere that she placed her focus was bathed in her divine light.

And so the world around her came to life. She vowed that from then on that's how she would create her reality.

Copyright 2007, by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.

Pushing the Envelope

Are you pushing the envelope more each and every new day? Our bodies are not conditioned to hold and express the vibrational feeling-tone frequencies of joy and wonderment on a regular basis. We may experience sporadic moments of ecstatic bliss but our bodies are not yet capable of sustaining that frequency on a constant basis. It is up to us to condition our bodies to be able to do so.

This conditioning is much like an athlete's conditioning. The athlete works out every day, and each day pushes the limits of his abilities. Slowly, the limits of those abilities grows and expands. After two months of training the athlete is capable of doing things beyond where her abilities were before training commenced.

Likewise, we can train our bodies to hold ever increasing amounts of joy vibrations. We push the envelope a little bit more each day. With conscious intent we can immerse ourselves in the joy vibrations each day; say for 10 minutes a day to start, increasing that time a little bit each day.

How do we get into the joy vibration? First we have to turn the brain chatter off. Next we need some beauty. It can be found where ever we look. We then concentrate on that beauty. We don't think about it, though! Instead we just observe it and try to feel it. If we can see and feel beauty then we can enter a state of wonderment. Wonderment is a powerful key to getting us into the joy vibration. If we can get into a state of wonderment then the joy will come in and fill us. But we've got to slowly build up our tolerance to the joy vibration by daily pushing the envelope of wonderment. The more wonderment we can experience with each new day, the more our bodies will be able to sustain joy.

Since joy feels so good it's easy to get comfy with a slightly larger amount of it and there is a tendency to quite pushing the envelope further. But if we can keep up our training and continually expand the amount of time we spend each day in wonderment and joy then we will eventually get to a point where that wonderment and joy takes over and becomes our natural state of being.

But it takes the training. If we were to instantly slip into that state permanently our bodies wouldn't be able to handle it. We've got to train our bodies by pushing the envelope each new day.

Beauty - Wonderment - Feeling - Joy/Bliss/Ecstasy

How much time each day do you spend looking for beauty? How much time do you spend in wonderment of that beauty? Being aware of how much time we actually spend on this each day, we can consciously set out to expand that. Journaling can be helpful in this regard but is not necessary. Or we could set aside a few minutes before we go to dreamland each night and review the beauty and wonderment and joy experienced during the day. Then we can set our intention to experience even more the next day. It also helps to reaffirm our intentions as we watch the sun rise over the mountains in the morning.

With each new day we can open ourselves up more and more to beauty and wonderment. The more we fill ourselves with it, the more we will be able to hold; the more we will expand. And the more joyful our lives become.

Beauty; it's everywhere. Find it. Wonder at it. Feel it. Let the joy fill you.

Copyright © 2007, by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.

Happy Artists

What makes one day different than another? Is it the events that transpired that day? Is it the feelings you felt that day? Is it the weather? How much of one's day is routine, the same as most other days? How many of our days bring something entirely new to us?

Are our days something that just happens? Do we experience them passively? How many of our days are planned? How much of our day is controlled by us? How much of our day has something to do with either a previous day or a future day?

As we watch the sun rise over the horizon in the morning we have a unique opportunity to bless our day just as it is starting. We can program what we will be open to during the day. We can set our intent, turning it over to the day so that we don't have to preoccupy ourselves with it any longer. It is at sunrise and sunset when we can become intimate with the day.

A day can be like an empty canvas. Before we start painting our picture it is best to stare a while at the blank canvas. Get to know it and feel the blankness. This opens up the canvas to receive the images and feelings we want to paint. It's always a good idea to bless an empty canvas before commencing with our art.

When the sun sets we can stop and look at our day from a different perspective; seeing it in a new light. We may not be finished with the picture we're painting but it's always a good idea to stop at some point and look at what we're painting from a slightly different angle; then feel how the painting is developing.

We can continue painting after the sun is down. What is added is added with a new light and different energy. How do we end our days?

We are all artists. Our medium is life. The art of living is something done either with passion and joy and love or something done as a habitual routine. As we daily paint the landscape of our lives we are free to choose how we paint it. We can be a tormented artist or we can be playful and child-like. We can paint the same picture or very similar ones day after day or we can paint something very new and different each day. We can start a new painting every day or we can repaint over yesterday's canvas, sometimes again and again. What do we do at the end of the day when it is time to go to dreamland? Do we release it to the universe or do we take it with us in our journey through dreamland and into the morning? Do we start with a fresh new canvas each new day? Or are we still painting over canvases started years ago?

There is much joy in greeting a blank canvas each new day. There is also great joy in finishing a painting and giving it away, clearing your mind for the next new canvas. There is great joy in the art of living, or at least there certainly can be. Connecting to that joy is a matter of releasing, opening up, and allowing it to flow. All the impediments to this flow are our resistances to it that we put in place. We do this by closing down through fear or guilt. So how do we deal with these fears and guilts and such that impede our flow? We let the flow wash them right out of us onto the canvas. There they can be expressed and released. We release through our canvases, integrating those releases into the beauty of our picture. Often, these releases are just the right color or texture we need to round off our picture. As we release one picture for the next blank canvas we will be lighter and less impeded and the joy will flow more freely and the next picture will reflect that. And we will become happier artists.

Copyright © 2007, by White Feather. All Rights Reserved.

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