From the Heart
To be suspended in mid air, is just to float, without connection with the earth. We all go through periods like this in life, periods where we feel things are beyond our control, where it is hard to settle and feel we have our feet firmly placed on the ground. At times like this, hold onto those that you have around you, feel yourself through them, feel your connection through love and friendship and know that you will eventually land where you are meant to be.
~ Liza
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I would cause controversy if I were to sit in a spiritualist church and say out loud to a room full of practicing mediums ‘I’m not sure I believe in all this talking to the dead lark’. But that’s the truth in a way, although I believe it at the same time.
I believe in life after death, I believe that the dead do continue and they are able to communicate with us, I’m just not so sure I believe in the way it’s practiced in spiritualist churches and centres. I think they need to move with the time a bit, delve a little deeper and review their archaic rules and regulations. I am so fed up of hearing ‘I have your grandmother with me, she liked to knit’ or something else every grandmother in the western world liked to do.
When I die, if anyone goes searching for me I’m not coming back to say what I looked like, how I died and share a couple of very random memories, like do you remember when we went to the seaside and got fish and chips for our supper. I will have so much more to say, like yes, life continues and it’s all about love and if I give any evidence of my continued survival it will be mind blowing to the person searching, it will be between me and them and there will be no mistaking it was me. I would like to be able to share more of who I continue to be and how. After all my body didn’t go with me and I won’t still have blond fine hair and a fine figure! I shall probably have already told my loved ones not to look for me anywhere outside of themselves before I go anyway, and for my family, that will be fine.
You see I believe in the continuation of the spirit, so some of the things the churches talk about sits well with me but I know without a shadow of a doubt there is more. Take my mum, I know she is around me. She turns things on and off, she makes herself known and at times I feel her love so much it takes over. But she doesn’t go to the church all the time trying to contact the living as she can do that directly when she wants and has much more important things to do now. My mum is an educated woman, she is terrifically spiritual and while here on earth, believed deeply in the power of love. I know wherever she is and in whatever form she is learning everything she can about it, if it’s all about love as I’m sure it is, that is where she will have settled herself and where she will be working. She can read my mind, she knows that I know she is still around so she doesn’t have to use a third party.
I have had messages from my mum, proof of her survival from mediums but nothing I didn’t know, some things have been amazing because the medium knew them too, but nothing surprising to me. So there is my questions, are they communicating with my mum psychically through me, are they picking out my mother from my own memories and energy, or are they in fact talking to her, honestly I just don’t know.
I have exactly the same questions if I try to link myself, I’m flabbergasted when I bring information out that can be accepted but haven’t a clue how I actually do it. I see pictures and feel and know but I assume it would be the same if I was tapping into energy too. This is why I would never make a really good medium, I haven’t the trust you see, I’m full of curiosity.
We carry so much with us in our energy, our subconscious and uncovered selves, so much more than we realise, ancestry, past lives, forgotten memories, it’s all their just waiting to be tapped into. We are capable of so much more than our minds allow at the moment, why limit ourselves to rules and regulations.
Now I’m not knocking the churches here and apologise if my thoughts here have upset anyone. I think there is certainly a place for spiritualist churches and mediums, for those grieving, those that are not sure about the continuation of spirit and those in need of love and support, but that’s about it as I think as life is for living and learning.
I won’t cause any controversy, I’ll keep my mouth shut or in slang, keep mum. Anyway, let’s be honest, they probably know what I think already!
Daily Prompt – Controversy
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Love comes from the very centre of existence, from a place beyond life. Love is beyond words, cannot be possessed or held in ones hands. Love is beyond comprehension if not experienced but can be seen clearly in everything it touches.
~ Liza
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Challenges come throughout our lives that require us to make big changes and sometimes these challenges are massive. The changes we have to make can involve us needing to let go of things, sometimes through choice, sometimes the letting go is forced upon us through circumstance. Some of these life changes, rock our very foundations, we question who we are, but often the changes are necessary for our continued growth.
Life changes or challenges come in all sorts of ways, the loss of loved ones, health, loosing our jobs or homes and perhaps finding ourselves outside of anything we knew. Change can involve the letting go of possessions, beliefs, life structures and what makes us who we are. The letting go is necessary if what we have hung onto is no longer of use or just weighs us down. Often it’s people we say goodbye to, those whose worlds we just don’t fit into anymore.
We might initially fight change and continue to fight with every ounce of our strength until we give up, surrender and realise that fight it or not, change is going to happen. So rather than be a lamb to the slaughter, isn’t it better to take control of things earlier and head off in the direction we are being pushed.
Life isn’t always easy, it’s not meant to be, sometimes it’s just one thing after another, some of these things rip the very heart from us. But each thing that happens to us, happens for a reason, there is a lesson to be learnt from everything that happens.
A few year back a friend asked me to describe my essence, what made me who I was. This was when I was starting out with my consultancy business and he felt it was a good exercise in knowing what I could offer. I found this quite difficult, maybe as it was the beginning of my life changing as it has. Today if I look at what I wrote there is a lot I don’t recognise. Today when I complete the same exercise, it looks totally different because I’m totally different. It’s perhaps good that I’ve closed my consultancy business now and I’m working in a different way.
I’ve learnt, when we continue to fight change, things get even more difficult because we are fighting universal plans and lets be honest, who can take on the universe. The best thing to do is embrace change, scary as this may seem, once we start to walk the right path and surrender ourselves, things start to go in our way. Opportunity presents itself and we find ourselves in the right place, meeting the right people and laughing again.
When I think back to all the difficult periods in my life it’s usually because I’ve been fighting things, challenges, often endings, usually the inevitable, and each and every one of these were meant to be. It’s so much easier to surrender, allow and accept change, embrace and welcome it when it comes because then it might not turn into something so hard to manage after all.
When we fight against the things that happen to us, it’s like the universe steps it up a gear just to prove to us we are not in charge. I sometimes think we are just actors, we have an invisible script to follow, sometimes presented at short notice. Okay I think there might be room for some ad-libbing but I don’t think we can totally change the play.
Daily Prompt – Massive
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At the very heart of each of us there is silence, a space to just be without the everyday thoughts that colour our judgment. How often do we take time out of life to just be in this place of being?
~ Liza
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We wait our destiny as if suspended from a branch on the tree of life. Wait as we may, nothing will occur until we flower. To everything in life there is a beginning, an ending and an in between.
~ Liza
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It’s the many different elements of each of us that make us into a whole. Each element fitting together and shaping us into who we are.
~ Liza
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I’m on the ball with my instinct,
I rarely get it wrong.
I’ll spot that lie a mile away,
it doesn’t take me long.
Compliments won’t sooth me,
if they’re not for real.
Don’t ask me how I know this,
it’s something that I feel.
Instinct is ingrained you see,
like I’m a little wild.
An intuitiveness about me,
back since a tiny child.
I’ll know if you really love me,
I get it through the air.
Doesn’t matter what you say,
I know if you really care.
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Daily Prompt – Instinct
To immerse myself in nature
it is the only way.
It will put me back together,
brighten up my day.
Deep into to the forests I go,
or I’ll climb a hill.
Run down to the calling sea,
internal tides it stills.
I find myself in natures arms,
it helps me see again.
Merge and find I have become,
self without a name.
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Daily Prompt – Immerse
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We can approach the world open to experience all it has to offer, or remain closed. Both lives will be lived, there are no absolute rules. Only if we are capable of opening out into the world, it does seem an awful waste not to do so.
~ Liza
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