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Posted: August 3rd, 2007 at 2:08am By: Anita Revel
I mentioned last week that I have created a Love and Blissings Book at my blog where you can lodge your request for loving support, or pledge that you will send your loving support to those who request it.
I also mentioned that some questions are so heartfelt, I am compelled to answer them directly. Here is another such request for advice from an InnerGoddess member, this time about icky energy:
I live in Mission Beach, North Queensland, and I have a question. Nearly every woman I know here, and my friends, have been feeling the same way — that is, very erratic, angry, frustrated with our lives, and some with their partners. I am a healer, but not practicing at the moment while I feel this way. My question is, what is going on with the Universe for all these women to feel this way? The only thing I keep telling myself is, that we are maybe finding our goddess within and not allowing men to disrespect us, or some shift in the Universe is happening. I'm hoping you might be able to enlighten me with this change around us.
Dear Goddess,
It can be soooo easy to fall into a slump when we take notice of the negatives around us. Just look at the bad news I've encountered this week alone — reports of toddlers with venereal disease, terrorists disguised as doctors (doctors? Terrorists disguised as lawyers, now that I can understand), Telstra's Next-G network — I mean, sometimes the news is so depressing, I could do a load of washing (or something equally as painful in order to numb my sorrow).
However, I refuse to see the slump as a bad thing.
To my mind there is something not quite right in assuming that happy thoughts alone are the key to manifesting your heart's desire. Negative thoughts and fear are the absolutely natural balance to joy and love, and that's how I think that working WITH them is healthy for me.
For everything in the Universe there is a complementary force that balances it. Yin and yang, light and dark, night and day, left and right, ego and spirit, male and female, peas and carrots. ... A pendulum cannot swing to a halfway point and back again — it swings to the middle point and continues its trajectory until it reaches the same height it was dropped from, but on the other side.
It's desirable to have happy thoughts, yes, but it's also completely natural to have moments of doubt, anger, negativity or fear. So when you ask, "What is going on with the universe for all these women?" I immediately think, "What is going on within?"
You and your friends are being presented with an opportunity to examine the "ickyness" of your lives. This ickyness is your balance to the bliss.
This principle is beautifully illustrated in the story of Persephone, the Greek maiden who became both goddess of spring and queen of the underworld. It was her bravery in coming face to face with the darker forces of the underworld that she discovered her true and empowered self. She subsequently claimed her true self and became queen of the underworld.
It sounds like you are resisting the ickyness and therefore denying yourself a beautiful opportunity to embrace your self in your glorious entirety - the light and dark of your inner Persephone.
Learn to listen for your negative voice. Don't smother it. Rather, use it as a trigger to identify when you are putting up obstacles for success (yours or someone else's, imagined or otherwise). Be honest with yourself as you work to resolve your resistance. Acknowledge when you are creating blocks. Flag the blocks, release your resistance, then step back and get your ego out of the way so you can receive your blessings.
I believe that your feeling this way is a blessing in itself. Just think — if you didn't feel angry with your partner, you wouldn't have the opportunity to clear an old injury, or evolve the relationship to a new level of richness, or dissolve it altogether — whatever is perfect for you.
Remember that ickyness is a gift. It serves to remind us where the line lies between our known limitation and our unknown bliss. Ickyness spurs us on to cross the line in order to celebrate the taste and rewards of new horizons. Look into the abyss, thank Goddess for this opportunity for self-reflection, then embrace the lessons, and subsequent light, that can come from your process.
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Anita Ryan-Revel is the creatrix of Goddess.com.au, a content-rich website aimed at helping you connect with your beautiful, sassy, intuitive, lovable, sacred and authentic self. She has incorporated her journey into hundreds of articles, countless websites and numerous books, one of which is "The Goddess Guide to Chakra Vitality." You can read more of her columns here. © copyright 2007 by Anita Ryan-Revel.
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I mentioned last week that I have created a Love and Blissings Book at my blog where you can lodge your request for loving support, or pledge that you will send your loving support to those who request it.
I also mentioned that some questions are so heartfelt, I am compelled to answer them directly. Here is another such request for advice from an InnerGoddess member, this time about icky energy:
I live in Mission Beach, North Queensland, and I have a question. Nearly every woman I know here, and my friends, have been feeling the same way — that is, very erratic, angry, frustrated with our lives, and some with their partners. I am a healer, but not practicing at the moment while I feel this way. My question is, what is going on with the Universe for all these women to feel this way? The only thing I keep telling myself is, that we are maybe finding our goddess within and not allowing men to disrespect us, or some shift in the Universe is happening. I'm hoping you might be able to enlighten me with this change around us.
Dear Goddess,
It can be soooo easy to fall into a slump when we take notice of the negatives around us. Just look at the bad news I've encountered this week alone — reports of toddlers with venereal disease, terrorists disguised as doctors (doctors? Terrorists disguised as lawyers, now that I can understand), Telstra's Next-G network — I mean, sometimes the news is so depressing, I could do a load of washing (or something equally as painful in order to numb my sorrow).
However, I refuse to see the slump as a bad thing.
To my mind there is something not quite right in assuming that happy thoughts alone are the key to manifesting your heart's desire. Negative thoughts and fear are the absolutely natural balance to joy and love, and that's how I think that working WITH them is healthy for me.
For everything in the Universe there is a complementary force that balances it. Yin and yang, light and dark, night and day, left and right, ego and spirit, male and female, peas and carrots. ... A pendulum cannot swing to a halfway point and back again — it swings to the middle point and continues its trajectory until it reaches the same height it was dropped from, but on the other side.
It's desirable to have happy thoughts, yes, but it's also completely natural to have moments of doubt, anger, negativity or fear. So when you ask, "What is going on with the universe for all these women?" I immediately think, "What is going on within?"
You and your friends are being presented with an opportunity to examine the "ickyness" of your lives. This ickyness is your balance to the bliss.
This principle is beautifully illustrated in the story of Persephone, the Greek maiden who became both goddess of spring and queen of the underworld. It was her bravery in coming face to face with the darker forces of the underworld that she discovered her true and empowered self. She subsequently claimed her true self and became queen of the underworld.
It sounds like you are resisting the ickyness and therefore denying yourself a beautiful opportunity to embrace your self in your glorious entirety - the light and dark of your inner Persephone.
Learn to listen for your negative voice. Don't smother it. Rather, use it as a trigger to identify when you are putting up obstacles for success (yours or someone else's, imagined or otherwise). Be honest with yourself as you work to resolve your resistance. Acknowledge when you are creating blocks. Flag the blocks, release your resistance, then step back and get your ego out of the way so you can receive your blessings.
I believe that your feeling this way is a blessing in itself. Just think — if you didn't feel angry with your partner, you wouldn't have the opportunity to clear an old injury, or evolve the relationship to a new level of richness, or dissolve it altogether — whatever is perfect for you.
Remember that ickyness is a gift. It serves to remind us where the line lies between our known limitation and our unknown bliss. Ickyness spurs us on to cross the line in order to celebrate the taste and rewards of new horizons. Look into the abyss, thank Goddess for this opportunity for self-reflection, then embrace the lessons, and subsequent light, that can come from your process.
— — —
Anita Ryan-Revel is the creatrix of Goddess.com.au, a content-rich website aimed at helping you connect with your beautiful, sassy, intuitive, lovable, sacred and authentic self. She has incorporated her journey into hundreds of articles, countless websites and numerous books, one of which is "The Goddess Guide to Chakra Vitality." You can read more of her columns here. © copyright 2007 by Anita Ryan-Revel.
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