“Through observation, you find a sense of acceptance…and finally some beautiful flowers of forgiveness bloom from there and the fruit is peace,”--Héctor Koa
Wow. I spent a long time with this one. This is beautiful. I could feel the breath in the spaces between the words. I slowed down as I read. I exhaled first and then I inhaled this wonderful gift. Thank you so much for sharing the story and the wisdom of your journey. 🙏❤️
Thank you so much Jamie. I am continuing to apply it as well and to take in the gifts of it all. There is a great deal about being centered in the midst of everything and yes, slowing down, and allowing the beauty of it all. I was just sitting on my porch gazing at the garden outside my casita and contemplating things. The swirl of life. Ideas for writing. Things that happen that interest me, challenge me, inspire me. And my thoughts wandered back to my belly and breathing. I feel more slowed down and centered and there is more space for awe...or interest...more space for many things like thoughts, musings, Cuoreosity...and living the questions...as you write about Jamie.
<3 You're welcome! Love to you both - Terra is so aweome and so you are! We are coming together as a human-divine community of vulnerable, authentic, loving, courageous lovers of life and learning to let Life Breathe Us into beauty/joy/being the flute and the floutist!
Thank you so much Alicia, for sharing my work and connecting me with such beautiful beings. I appreciate the organic nature of this movement. I have shied away from marketing. For the past months, all my effort has gone into my weekly post. Notes, restacks, and the many other things this platform offers have remained on the back burner of things to do and learn about. I will dive in. But it is nice to see that through you and others, my efforts are being received nonetheless. Bless you beautiful Unicorn.
Mmmmm :) I found you because I got the inner nudge to look up butterfly and there were a bunch but as soon as I saw your pic, I felt led to you and your beautiful space in the world of substack. One of my roles is pollinator and I am so happy people are finding you because your luscious, humble, powerful, loving guidance through your embodied wisdom is the truth of Wayshower in action. <3 I don't do a lot of "journey" stuff but one of my first I asked, "Who am I?" I was first a rose breaking through concrete and rising above a desolate city that was dead; then I was a butterfly, then a bee. One other time I had a vision where I was a unicorn, but on my wings were bee and butterfly. I am allergic to marketing, so I am glad you aren't doing it. When you are ready you will find a way to share what you are doing and invite people and because of your being, you will simply magnetize. <3 xo <3 :)!!
Oh my gosh. So much beauty to take in with what you say. I love your visions. I love that you pollinate and I so appreciate how you see me. I feel deeply honored, inspired, and encouraged.
This post itself helped me breathe. And I have been wanting to do breathwork but like all things, I am so picky about with whom I can work. I loved what you shared about how the technique can be experienced as tension inducing if it isn't in the space of the breath, in space of one who is breathing/being breathed. I remember going to see someone a long time ago who did body work and we were talking about how being grounded is a challenge and he said he ability ground is connected to nervous systems of others in the room. My breath is where I'd like to be more sovereign. At the moment, if the energy is pristine, my whole nervous system can breathe. If not- whether its collective, global, technological or local, I am still on the path to how to bring forward my own energy without becoming reactive or afraid of other energies that are disharmonic or even assaulting. I love how you create a path of entrainment with how you write. It's a very special gift you offer. We can craft a global peace(rather than nervous) system across time and all that it is, and you are doing a wonderful job with your part! Thank you so much for being, for showing the way with your journey :) Love.
Thank you so much Alicia. And I am a big fan of being picky, which is really not picky at all but discerning. Discernment is so important and is a form of care and love for oneself, and from that, others. What you speak of is a work in progress for me as well. I continue to practice what Héctor taught me when things are happening around me that I find challenging. Yes, those energies that people can throw around when they are uncomfortable are a practice to stay centered in the midst of for sure. And yes, it is a journey for me and I am simply sharing it...sometimes messy, but it feels good to share the edges.
Thank you for sharing in the incompleteness, the journey of...it is the journey that makes it accessible, rather than remote. I also feel that, in some sense we can blame ourselves for experiencing oneness, when it really is unnatural to have to separate ourselves from the whole energetically in order to be one with it at a higher level and then transmit/share that with those we are in relation with remotely in in person "on the ground." It is kind of like how in mental health their isa tendency to pathologize the individual instead of seeing symptoms of collective illness that manifest in individuals. So much easer to call an individual sick than to call a society sick. So here's to gentleness on ourselves on the breath journey. I was lying in bed, just breathing a little while ago and it felt, for a little while so easy and I realized it would be lovely to call it breath ease instead of breath work!
Terra thank you for taking the time to write this beautiful piece. I acknowledge you for the time and effort it takes to create and share. I loved every bit of how you told this story. You are a wonderful storyteller. I could feel your breath ebbing and flowing throughout the words. The breath is the glue that gently weaves the heart, mind, and soul. Deepening and slowing down my breath is something I have started to do more in recent years and to remain grounded in that as much as possible. It has helped me slow down the way I express myself both verbally and physically. I’ve noticed how it changes the way I talk (learning to be ok with pauses) and the way I interact in sex with my partner (learning to open my body more deeply). The breath dictates all of the processes inside the body and by noticing and guiding it, we can tune our vibration to that of God frequency ✨
Yes, Vipul. This is so beautiful. It is funny as I got lost in the comments as I was working for a time, from my phone, and misread one to Alicia I thought was for me (and in a way it was as the timing of it landed so beautifully in my system). I am here now to really feel the flow of your words and the weaving of the tapestry, clearly, from start to finish. I find it quite rare to meet people who do such things as you mention. That pause, to breathe, is so key. So huge. So outside the "norm" of where we are taught, or allow ourselves to be. And yes, that pause allows for so much more feeling to arise. Perhaps in a way, it makes the pause rather risky. It opens our system and exposes our beauty and our vulnerability. I love what you say about sex and opening your body more deeply and how ultimately we are tuning our vibration to that of a God frequency. I went over to your blog and read your post on grief, which I have explored over the years with curiosity. I love your writing. Is there a Kindle version of your poetry book? Thank you so much for your words as they encourage me. I did spend many hours with it. It felt important. I wanted to honor something with my words and offering. Perhaps Héctor. Perhaps the teaching. Perhaps simply how much I felt honored and loved to receive it.
Well if you read my message and thought it was for you, then indeed it was! It is rare for us to slow down and connect more deeply because most of us are not shown how or told the importance of why. The “norm” at least for me was to be chaotic, frantic, external facing. Always in a low level state of anxiety about what might or might not happen. Learning to let go and recalibrate back to a place of balance, ease, peace, has been a lifelong journey of self-exploration. Thank you for taking the time to read my work, I so appreciate you! My book is available on Kindle. There should be a button on Amazon that allows you to choose which form you buy 🙏🏽
Thank you. I just ordered your book and it is so true. It is a lifelong journey. It is almost an addiction or a habit to exist in that chaotic, frantic, external facing state. I found myself this morning...geared up and ready to write and finish my post for this week. And then I thought, "no, Terra." Just, "No." I am at this retreat center for a reason. I am here to simply sit and gaze at the beauty. To sit on my porch and watch the butterflies. I came her for that and soon I will have to leave. That, is my priority. The blog will happen. It will be fine. It will be good or not. Whatever. What is "Good" anyway, but a construct of the mind? I offer it from love, just as I wish to sit in awe of beauty. And all that is love. Simple. Free.
Yes. Exactly. He has been on my mind lately. I had a strong headache from a recent experience. I was worried about my brain and wondered if he had ever damaged his? But all is well now. I feel great. "Be Here Now." He knows what he is talking about. I have your book on Kindle and look forward to diving into it next. I know I will like it. I have liked everything you have written or said so far. How can your book not be amazing?
I just started your poetry book. I don’t have adequate words. Truth, beauty, simplicity... I am very glad we have connected and I shall continue to savor it before bed, like little heavenly reminders of who I am. Thank you.
Wow. I spent a long time with this one. This is beautiful. I could feel the breath in the spaces between the words. I slowed down as I read. I exhaled first and then I inhaled this wonderful gift. Thank you so much for sharing the story and the wisdom of your journey. 🙏❤️
Thank you so much Jamie. I am continuing to apply it as well and to take in the gifts of it all. There is a great deal about being centered in the midst of everything and yes, slowing down, and allowing the beauty of it all. I was just sitting on my porch gazing at the garden outside my casita and contemplating things. The swirl of life. Ideas for writing. Things that happen that interest me, challenge me, inspire me. And my thoughts wandered back to my belly and breathing. I feel more slowed down and centered and there is more space for awe...or interest...more space for many things like thoughts, musings, Cuoreosity...and living the questions...as you write about Jamie.
I love this piece so much!
Because of you I found this piece, which I so enjoyed reading. Thank you sister for being a beautiful bridge 🙏🏽
<3 You're welcome! Love to you both - Terra is so aweome and so you are! We are coming together as a human-divine community of vulnerable, authentic, loving, courageous lovers of life and learning to let Life Breathe Us into beauty/joy/being the flute and the floutist!
Thank you so much Alicia, for sharing my work and connecting me with such beautiful beings. I appreciate the organic nature of this movement. I have shied away from marketing. For the past months, all my effort has gone into my weekly post. Notes, restacks, and the many other things this platform offers have remained on the back burner of things to do and learn about. I will dive in. But it is nice to see that through you and others, my efforts are being received nonetheless. Bless you beautiful Unicorn.
Mmmmm :) I found you because I got the inner nudge to look up butterfly and there were a bunch but as soon as I saw your pic, I felt led to you and your beautiful space in the world of substack. One of my roles is pollinator and I am so happy people are finding you because your luscious, humble, powerful, loving guidance through your embodied wisdom is the truth of Wayshower in action. <3 I don't do a lot of "journey" stuff but one of my first I asked, "Who am I?" I was first a rose breaking through concrete and rising above a desolate city that was dead; then I was a butterfly, then a bee. One other time I had a vision where I was a unicorn, but on my wings were bee and butterfly. I am allergic to marketing, so I am glad you aren't doing it. When you are ready you will find a way to share what you are doing and invite people and because of your being, you will simply magnetize. <3 xo <3 :)!!
Oh my gosh. So much beauty to take in with what you say. I love your visions. I love that you pollinate and I so appreciate how you see me. I feel deeply honored, inspired, and encouraged.
<3 <3 <3 I love that you RECEIVED that! <3 <3 <3
A’ho Amen and so it is 🙏🏽
It’s crazy to think I’ve not met you (like other humans I’ve met on here and on IG) and yet I love you dearly ❤️
This post itself helped me breathe. And I have been wanting to do breathwork but like all things, I am so picky about with whom I can work. I loved what you shared about how the technique can be experienced as tension inducing if it isn't in the space of the breath, in space of one who is breathing/being breathed. I remember going to see someone a long time ago who did body work and we were talking about how being grounded is a challenge and he said he ability ground is connected to nervous systems of others in the room. My breath is where I'd like to be more sovereign. At the moment, if the energy is pristine, my whole nervous system can breathe. If not- whether its collective, global, technological or local, I am still on the path to how to bring forward my own energy without becoming reactive or afraid of other energies that are disharmonic or even assaulting. I love how you create a path of entrainment with how you write. It's a very special gift you offer. We can craft a global peace(rather than nervous) system across time and all that it is, and you are doing a wonderful job with your part! Thank you so much for being, for showing the way with your journey :) Love.
Thank you so much Alicia. And I am a big fan of being picky, which is really not picky at all but discerning. Discernment is so important and is a form of care and love for oneself, and from that, others. What you speak of is a work in progress for me as well. I continue to practice what Héctor taught me when things are happening around me that I find challenging. Yes, those energies that people can throw around when they are uncomfortable are a practice to stay centered in the midst of for sure. And yes, it is a journey for me and I am simply sharing it...sometimes messy, but it feels good to share the edges.
Discernment! Hallelujia! <3 <3 <3
Thank you for sharing in the incompleteness, the journey of...it is the journey that makes it accessible, rather than remote. I also feel that, in some sense we can blame ourselves for experiencing oneness, when it really is unnatural to have to separate ourselves from the whole energetically in order to be one with it at a higher level and then transmit/share that with those we are in relation with remotely in in person "on the ground." It is kind of like how in mental health their isa tendency to pathologize the individual instead of seeing symptoms of collective illness that manifest in individuals. So much easer to call an individual sick than to call a society sick. So here's to gentleness on ourselves on the breath journey. I was lying in bed, just breathing a little while ago and it felt, for a little while so easy and I realized it would be lovely to call it breath ease instead of breath work!
Breath ease! I love that!
Terra thank you for taking the time to write this beautiful piece. I acknowledge you for the time and effort it takes to create and share. I loved every bit of how you told this story. You are a wonderful storyteller. I could feel your breath ebbing and flowing throughout the words. The breath is the glue that gently weaves the heart, mind, and soul. Deepening and slowing down my breath is something I have started to do more in recent years and to remain grounded in that as much as possible. It has helped me slow down the way I express myself both verbally and physically. I’ve noticed how it changes the way I talk (learning to be ok with pauses) and the way I interact in sex with my partner (learning to open my body more deeply). The breath dictates all of the processes inside the body and by noticing and guiding it, we can tune our vibration to that of God frequency ✨
Yes, Vipul. This is so beautiful. It is funny as I got lost in the comments as I was working for a time, from my phone, and misread one to Alicia I thought was for me (and in a way it was as the timing of it landed so beautifully in my system). I am here now to really feel the flow of your words and the weaving of the tapestry, clearly, from start to finish. I find it quite rare to meet people who do such things as you mention. That pause, to breathe, is so key. So huge. So outside the "norm" of where we are taught, or allow ourselves to be. And yes, that pause allows for so much more feeling to arise. Perhaps in a way, it makes the pause rather risky. It opens our system and exposes our beauty and our vulnerability. I love what you say about sex and opening your body more deeply and how ultimately we are tuning our vibration to that of a God frequency. I went over to your blog and read your post on grief, which I have explored over the years with curiosity. I love your writing. Is there a Kindle version of your poetry book? Thank you so much for your words as they encourage me. I did spend many hours with it. It felt important. I wanted to honor something with my words and offering. Perhaps Héctor. Perhaps the teaching. Perhaps simply how much I felt honored and loved to receive it.
Well if you read my message and thought it was for you, then indeed it was! It is rare for us to slow down and connect more deeply because most of us are not shown how or told the importance of why. The “norm” at least for me was to be chaotic, frantic, external facing. Always in a low level state of anxiety about what might or might not happen. Learning to let go and recalibrate back to a place of balance, ease, peace, has been a lifelong journey of self-exploration. Thank you for taking the time to read my work, I so appreciate you! My book is available on Kindle. There should be a button on Amazon that allows you to choose which form you buy 🙏🏽
Thank you. I just ordered your book and it is so true. It is a lifelong journey. It is almost an addiction or a habit to exist in that chaotic, frantic, external facing state. I found myself this morning...geared up and ready to write and finish my post for this week. And then I thought, "no, Terra." Just, "No." I am at this retreat center for a reason. I am here to simply sit and gaze at the beauty. To sit on my porch and watch the butterflies. I came her for that and soon I will have to leave. That, is my priority. The blog will happen. It will be fine. It will be good or not. Whatever. What is "Good" anyway, but a construct of the mind? I offer it from love, just as I wish to sit in awe of beauty. And all that is love. Simple. Free.
Thank you Terra. I can’t wait to hear what you think. As I read the rest of your comment Ram Dass’ words come to my heart “Be Here Now” ❤️
Yes. Exactly. He has been on my mind lately. I had a strong headache from a recent experience. I was worried about my brain and wondered if he had ever damaged his? But all is well now. I feel great. "Be Here Now." He knows what he is talking about. I have your book on Kindle and look forward to diving into it next. I know I will like it. I have liked everything you have written or said so far. How can your book not be amazing?
I just started your poetry book. I don’t have adequate words. Truth, beauty, simplicity... I am very glad we have connected and I shall continue to savor it before bed, like little heavenly reminders of who I am. Thank you.
Love love love ALL of it. Thank you for exhaling the message my body so needed to inhale...
Thank you Jacqueline. What beautiful words. They mean a lot to me. I am so glad you feel it.
Yes
Yes! ❤️
Love!