Do Not Lose Heart We Were Made For These Times

If you haven't already found this essay - or if it has yet to find you - please do read Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Do Not Lose Heart, We Were Made For These Times. An inspiring, heart-warming, and truly beautiful message to us all.

~ Bright Blessings ~

Little Burnt-Face

One of my favorite stories as a child was Little Burnt-Face, read to me from the impressive tome Anthology of Children's Literature by Johnson and Scott (my copy is a bit tattered but it's the original that Mom sent me a few years ago when I asked her if I could keep it with me). Little Burnt-Face is sort of a Native American "Cinderella" story, and probably most cultures have a similar one, but this version always captures my heart - even when I read it now as an adult. I mean, it has magic and nature and a happy ending! In spite of all that her sisters put her through, the girl called Little Burnt-Face persevered and remained true to her Self -- and in the end this brought her happiness, peace, love and a new life.

I thought today of Little Burnt-Face because I'm following Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' posts on fb, listening to her podcasts, hoping to soon obtain some of her audio programs from SoundsTrue, and eagerly awaiting the publication of her masterwork The Dangerous Old Woman. Her classic Women Who Run With The Wolves changed the lives of many women, and I have no doubt that her new book will do the same. Through the stories Dr. E shares, and how she relates them to our journeys in life, we open to new possibilities, to creativity, to flowering of consciousness - to Self. Dr. E is a scholar, poet, Jungian psychoanalyst, and cantadora (keeper of the old stories in the Latina tradition).

Predicting the weather in your body via the internal winds

I read this article earlier today and the quote reminded me of how Vata subdoshas move throughout our bodies.

"Understanding how meteorologists predict the weather may actually be a useful metaphor for a better understanding of the practical workings of the energy flowing through the body. Meteorologists predict the weather by measuring wind patterns and high and low air pressure. By doing do, they predict where clouds will go and if and where it will rain. Wind and air pressure are forces, or energies, and if experts ignore these invisible forces and only watch and evaluate those elements of nature that can be seen (clouds), their skills at predicting weather will be embarrassingly poor. By understanding and observing how energy flows, experts can then predict how matter will be influenced and how it will behave."

Full Article HERE

Hibbertia Flower Essence

This was interesting; I love it when this happens! Here I am, retyping my notes from the Australian Bush Flower Essence Level 3 Workshop. Under Hibbertia, the very last entry, I glance down at my handwritten notes and then type "perfect wisdom" -- however, after another minute or so, I glance down again and I had not written that but rather "perfectionism." So, without consciously being aware of it, I realized that when we release being perfect, we allow in the possibility of perfect wisdom. And that's what Hibbertia is all about. Fun, right?!