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Finding my Voice

May 25, 2017 lizaaitken

It’s taken me a lifetime to find my voice, to speak from my heart. I’ve always said what I think but for a long time in the right company, in the company of those that would understand. As a child I agreed with everyone else, it’s a Virgo trait to want to keep people happy. In fact I think it was more than that, I didn’t have my own voice, I had the voice of society, the voice of everybody else.

I still want to be liked, it’s deep rooted, it’s connected to experience and that ego mind of mine, but today I’m not as bothered. I want to be liked by those that get me, I hope people will listen and consider my opinion but it’s not important and I could well be wrong, I’m still finding myself and therefore my voice might change.

So what is finding your voice, for me it is discovering yourself, your self expression in whatever form it presents. Your own unique voice is passionate, it’s your own authenticity, it’s your truth. It probably won’t be like anyone else as it’s unique to each of us, our voice is our own expression of life.

Artists understand what it is to have their own voice, poets, writers, dancers and painters because their voice is their craft, they speak from the heart, they understand individuality. That to me is owning your voice, it’s speaking from the heart, speaking from the absolute knowing inside of each of us.

So is it our voice or the realisation that we are truth, we are connected and finding that connection gives us our uniqueness. I know that doesn’t make a lot of sense but bare with me. I’ve found my connection, I’m in touch with a universal consciousness and yet I present my own understanding of it, I’m unique in how I choose to present it. If we were all the same we would all be dancing, I have two left feet but I can hear the rhythm of the universe in my heart.

I’m in love with nature and nature has given me a voice and that voice is my understanding of natures message. I am the the author of my own voice and yet that voice comes through a connection with the universe.

If we think about a rose, it’s not the same as any other rose, it presents us with it’s own understanding of growth and this is influenced by it’s surroundings, it’s experience of the world. That’s how we find our voice, it’s an inner knowing which comes to the surface through experience, as experience helps us to listen.

Here’s a question, is knowing ourselves the truth or is it influenced by our experiences here, are the experiences to remind us of who we really are, or are they to challenge us.

I’ve found my own voice as the person I am, the human, I hope it connects with what is true but at the moment it’s my truth.

Impression of a Flower

May 24, 2017 lizaaitken

The flower whispered in my ear,

it was so close to me.

Heard it speak inside my head,

it wished to help me see.

For flowers grow as they do,

flowers come from love.

The flower told me gently,

it came down from above.

To work with mother nature,

to show us how to live.

To remind us of our promise,

in life we have to give.

Relying on the rains that fall,

the sunshine in the sky.

The flower is our teacher here,

the flower doesn’t lie.

It shows us how to open up,

to let things fall away.

To bow our heads at nightfall,

to wait another day.

Flowers feed all sorts of bees,

teach us how to share.

Doesn’t hold onto its pollen,

to give yourself is to care.

The flowers isn’t afraid of death,

knows it will return.

Always being springs to see,

lots more here to learn.

The flowers think we’re stupid,

in a sort of kindly way.

Not knowing we’re connected,

really don’t have a say.

We keep returning to the earth,

we get it wrong again.

Don’t understand our lessons,

judge them just as pain.

We remember more as babies,

but forget so very soon.

Unlike the gentle flowers,

we loose it when we bloom.

It gave me a strong impression,

that it wanted to help me see.

So I would write a poem right here,

on how flowers want us to be.

Impression

A Space in Time

May 22, 2017May 22, 2017 lizaaitken

I found the space I needed,

though I didn’t know it at the time.

A space to clear my thoughts away,

a space to give me time.

I didn’t know I was searching,

it quite took me by surprise.

I thought I needed people near,

such space I’d never tried.

But I’m finding myself in openness,

time is mending my heart.

I know that life will wait for me,

be waiting when I start.

I’ve found a little space in time,

a safe space for recovery.

I now know that I’ve needed this,

just took me a while to see.

I thought this place would be boring,

that people I’d need to find.

But I’ve found a piece of heaven here,

it’s so gentle on my mind.

Nature Lessons 324

May 10, 2017 lizaaitken

We don’t all grow in the best soil. At times it is harder to put down roots, sometimes we might be barely holding on but we pull on our resilience and make the best of what we have. To survive and flourish in such environments shows a determination hard to match.

Nature Lessons 322

May 7, 2017 lizaaitken

It’s not always easy to find the centre, go inside of ourselves to rest and recover from life because there is always so much in the way. So much that needs to be let go of before we find ourselves in a place of silence and stillness, a place in which we can let go and truly rest in the heart. Easy or not it’s worth the journey.

~ Liza

Journey of Discovery

May 5, 2017 lizaaitken

Life is about opening, we cannot avoid it, each experience teaches us this. Each discovery opens us a little more, teaches us something new and we expand further. We discover our connection to all things, we open up and reach out. As we open to experience we grow into what we always were, we realise ourselves and all the potential we were born with, we become.

Opening up, awakening and realising self is not something that happens to the chosen few, it is something that happens to all of us from the very moment we are born, we just need to recognise and allow the process.

Life is about finding ourselves, finding the force that travels with us, realising and becoming our authentic selves.

Think back now, think about your own experiences for a moment and what they have taught you. Ask yourself if you could have avoided them and if you had would you have learned as you did. Would these things have happened anyway in another way, was each lesson necessary, mine were.

And as we travel forward I know that there is more to come, we are here to learn, here to discover and within that make a difference. Life is simply a journey of discovery.

Be like a Peacock

April 20, 2017 lizaaitken

Be like a peacock, show yourself in all your glory, colouring the world as you do. Open yourself wide so that we can see and feel that heart.

– Liza

Nature Lessons 228

April 17, 2017 lizaaitken

There’s a vulnerability in an open heart, but a heart that’s closed would never understand that.

~ Liza

Nature Lessons 226

April 15, 2017 lizaaitken

There are patterns that run throughout our lives, patterns that repeat themselves time and time again, sometimes even after we have learnt the lessons they bring. Patterns are unavoidable, they are splashed across the world and can be seen throughout nature. There is quite simply a pattern to life and our existence is entwined within it.

~ Liza

Nature Lessons 225

April 14, 2017 lizaaitken

We don’t stay the same, we change into something else along the way. Our edges wear, tear and soften, we change shape and we blend into a world we understand. We adapt through experience, we change but we are still the same, deep inside at the heart, nothing changes.

~ Liza