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August 2010
Cheryl Kaufmann / Bright Star
Harmony and Allowing rather than
Balance and Healing.
Ever flown on the vibration of a song? Sound vibration can take you
places. I used to ask my kids to imagine that if they were butterflies,
where would the music take them? For a moment I would tap into
the music and to see where would I go? Gently fluttering up? Or
softly allow the musical breeze to push me out past the imaginary
swaying grasslands toward the holographic mountain valley stream?
Always, without fail, for me, it was a place of tranquility.
This little trick was to distract my kids from the imagination of other
sleep-depriving thoughts when the lights went out for the day. I
have noticed that in our journeys, we often try different ways to
connect to a desired place; sometimes it is a like a parent soothing a
child, an easing into something different, loving called redirecting.
And sometimes we connect by will, desire or simply fatigue. One of
my teachers once told me when having a hard time falling asleep to
connect to my brain. She directed me to acknowledge it by saying,
“Hello, Brain, thank you for doing all you do but for now, it is
resting time.” Corny as it was to do at the time, it set into motion
how I am now able to connect to organs and body parts of my
clients! Everything we do, everything, is training for the next step of
the next thing you are going to do.
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a dynamic relationship. Every perfect moment, chaotic or
splendid, is complete and whole all on its own. Life is not a forced
result or resisted defiance, but rather a symbiotic wave of experience
to experience. It becomes in its dynamics the very piece for a puzzle
coming together each day known as You. Imagination is a
wonderful aspect of human psychology and contains within it,
power to fuel life and create change. Our ability to tap into the
fulfillment of a heart’s whisper is life-changing. Life-changing is
dynamic.
I was teasing a dear friend and teacher of mine that sometimes I
hear her share a message with others and it is like we are connected
to the same Universal Switchboard. She would have no way of
knowing the words she gives to another are a confirmation of what I
have been sharing with clients. Dr. Hector Garcia, my most recent
teacher, shared in our San Diego workshop that “you can see stuff
because stuff can see you!” I think with this, the music and the
imagination of the listener can become co-creators of a journey in
this thread. A merging of information and light, love and fulfillment,
are much easier to attain when you realize Love sees you as much
as you see it. And it will find you through others along the way.
Harmony and Allowing are words that have become important in
my practice (of life and professionally). I have found that most
people are interested in maintaining a sense of fairness and balance.
And yet, my experience has shown that balance can be stagnating.
If you can imagine the golden balance scales, it is easy to see
visually that when it is truly balanced, there is no movement.
It may have a fair and equal amount on both sides, but there is no
movement. Harmony may not appear to have fairness as it tips to
one side and then the other. Yet it is in the state of Harmony, that
which each person no longer needs is released (outgoing, upward
tip) and that which is ready to come forward for the next experience
(incoming, downward tip) will create balance automatically as the
cycle repeats itself flawlessly. It appears in my mind’s eye more
like an infinity sign as it switches from the balance scales to
something more dynamic and with flux and flow. Harmony may
not give the expected result, and yet if you just hang in there, you
will see the flux and flow bring in exactly what you need – if you are
allowing movement.
“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked.
“You must want to fly so much that you are willing
to give up being a caterpillar.” ~ Author unknown
Allowing, yes, our next state of being and sister state of Harmony.
Most people use the word “healing” instead of Allowing. As we are
continuing to evolve and move further into places of growth, secrets
are no longer able to keep quiet, in our body, in our mind and in our
spirit. When people speak of healing, there it contains within it a
completion of some sort; changing from one way of being to another
way of being such as a broken heart to a mended one, for example.
This also cues in an ending. Healing is the end of the process and
we can cross it off our list of experiences. We have mended the
“broken” heart, check. We have restored health to the plant,
check. We have patched up the tire, check. We have mended the
relationship to so-and-so, check. To simply heal actually stops the
energy at its completion. We are done. We are “healed.” Like
fairness on the balance scales, it can be stagnate.
I hear voices of those defending Healing in that as healing takes
place new things come into being. Yes, yes, they do! And those
who find Healing as their destined end will see that they tend to
leave behind the essence in which that has brought them to such
Healing. To leave behind is a completion, an ending, and can stop
the flow of incoming energy. This is especially true if one is afraid.
I offer another suggestion to this space. Use “healing” to teach
you how to step into Allowing. To Allow is to accept and to
acknowledge. As long as healing is seen in the light of “done-ness”,
a separation still occurs: That which came before Healing and that
which comes after. Allowing is a space where the one who is in
connection can be in agreement with and negotiate terms of
Harmony, the flux and flow of life. Accepting gifts of perfect
moments is bringing forth the part of you who has trained for this
next moment from all your previous ones.
There are so many people out there who have no idea how
influential they have been to me by just being who they were in the
moment. Just showing up is enough to fill imagination, provide
confirmation, provide a heart whisper to someone else or receive
one for you. Allowing that which you no longer need to simply
move provides dynamics, no force, no anger, it just moves by the
very virtue of you allowing it to. And when that which you no
longer need can move, that which provides you with what you do
need can move to you.
“If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies”
~Author Unknown
Allowing is applicable in connection to listening to the voice of the
body. The body is an amazing machine with a language unique to
itself, unique to you, and at the same time completely connected to
all languages around it. Science has shown we are effected by those
around us the same as we affect others. When we listen to our body
when it communicates we can allow movement with this energy and
experience harmony.
This applies to relationships, physical well-being, emotions, thinking,
sleeping, food, and the list goes on. When I am at the grocery store,
I ask the apples, “Who is coming home with me today?” There
may be perfectly “good” apples, but sometimes they are not mine.
Allowing the information from the apple that matches my family to
come forward is more fun and I spend less time rather than
mindlessly going through bruised apple after bruised apple. And I
get really great apples!
There are those who go on automatic pilot not allowing themselves
to have great apples or imaginary or energetic flights with the music
or do not allow harmony in relationships, whether it is to Self or to
Others. For those interested in the experience of such a place, the
Universe has a sense of humor and a way to support us in amazing
ways. Once, I did not want to share something with anyone else, so
by golly, that thing mysteriously “disappeared”. I could not find it
anywhere. I looked for weeks! (I did not even get to share with
myself!) Then when I let go, the part of me who did not want to
share was allowed movement, poof, there it was, hidden in plain
sight the whole time.
Harmony and Allowing are heart-centered fields of light and
provide dynamic flow of energy in and out with ease, joy and, well,
it all just brings a sense of love that is beyond mere vocabulary
education. There is no completion with an end. There is a
movement of outward inward and inward outward in perfect
rhythm, perfect flow. Like the soft breath you take every day, you
allow the beauty of life to leave you to help the plants (carbon
dioxide) and the plants allow the splendor of life to exit their leaves
(oxygen) to assist you. Breathe that in! Symbiotic – it all is.
Everything. All you do is training for the next thing you are going to
do. Enjoy it. There is no healing in this sense, only allowing.
Allowing that which you no longer need to move, and that which
you do need to come forward to meet you.
Experiences we had yesterday train us for today as today prepares
us for tomorrow. Connect with your experiences, open up to the
perspective of Harmony happening right before your eyes. Allow
for movement, gentle, slow, quick and direct, deliberate in
connecting to you. There are parts of you that are waiting to
unfold from a chrysalis and other parts of you still enjoying the art
of eating enough to produce a transformative slumber. And then
there are parts of you that are free, flowing, in an ever glorious flight
of the thoughts or dreams of a child’s imagination fueled simply by
the ribbons of song.
Once you have Allowed movement of energy, there is something
called Harmony in your journey. Here we find Mastery; a Master
to none and a Master with all.
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.” ~Richard Bach
How to create Harmony and Allowing:
1. Begin by acknowledging what you do not need anymore.
This can also be a space of trust when something you
wanted/desired changes directions.
2. Let go.
3. Be at peace that you do not have to fill that space back up
with anything. No forcing results. See the gifts, benefits,
blessings of the flux and flow of direction.
4. When you are ready, what you need will come and it will
have a place now that you have made yourself available to
receive it.
~Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2010 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann and
Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written consent
but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this website, author's
name and/or business. Further articles can be viewed on the blog.
happenings, subscribe to Bright Star's monthly Newsletter. Your address is only used to
send updates and is not shared with any other sources. Click on the subscribe button
on the side to get your newsletter in motion!
August 2010
Cheryl Kaufmann / Bright Star
Harmony and Allowing rather than
Balance and Healing.
Ever flown on the vibration of a song? Sound vibration can take you
places. I used to ask my kids to imagine that if they were butterflies,
where would the music take them? For a moment I would tap into
the music and to see where would I go? Gently fluttering up? Or
softly allow the musical breeze to push me out past the imaginary
swaying grasslands toward the holographic mountain valley stream?
Always, without fail, for me, it was a place of tranquility.
This little trick was to distract my kids from the imagination of other
sleep-depriving thoughts when the lights went out for the day. I
have noticed that in our journeys, we often try different ways to
connect to a desired place; sometimes it is a like a parent soothing a
child, an easing into something different, loving called redirecting.
And sometimes we connect by will, desire or simply fatigue. One of
my teachers once told me when having a hard time falling asleep to
connect to my brain. She directed me to acknowledge it by saying,
“Hello, Brain, thank you for doing all you do but for now, it is
resting time.” Corny as it was to do at the time, it set into motion
how I am now able to connect to organs and body parts of my
clients! Everything we do, everything, is training for the next step of
the next thing you are going to do.
“Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued,
is always just beyond your grasp,
but which, if you will sit down quietly,
may alight upon you” ~Nathaniel Hawthorne
It is a dynamic relationship. Every perfect moment, chaotic or
splendid, is complete and whole all on its own. Life is not a forced
result or resisted defiance, but rather a symbiotic wave of experience
to experience. It becomes in its dynamics the very piece for a puzzle
coming together each day known as You. Imagination is a
wonderful aspect of human psychology and contains within it,
power to fuel life and create change. Our ability to tap into the
fulfillment of a heart’s whisper is life-changing. Life-changing is
dynamic.
I was teasing a dear friend and teacher of mine that sometimes I
hear her share a message with others and it is like we are connected
to the same Universal Switchboard. She would have no way of
knowing the words she gives to another are a confirmation of what I
have been sharing with clients. Dr. Hector Garcia, my most recent
teacher, shared in our San Diego workshop that “you can see stuff
because stuff can see you!” I think with this, the music and the
imagination of the listener can become co-creators of a journey in
this thread. A merging of information and light, love and fulfillment,
are much easier to attain when you realize Love sees you as much
as you see it. And it will find you through others along the way.
Harmony and Allowing are words that have become important in
my practice (of life and professionally). I have found that most
people are interested in maintaining a sense of fairness and balance.
And yet, my experience has shown that balance can be stagnating.
If you can imagine the golden balance scales, it is easy to see
visually that when it is truly balanced, there is no movement.
It may have a fair and equal amount on both sides, but there is no
movement. Harmony may not appear to have fairness as it tips to
one side and then the other. Yet it is in the state of Harmony, that
which each person no longer needs is released (outgoing, upward
tip) and that which is ready to come forward for the next experience
(incoming, downward tip) will create balance automatically as the
cycle repeats itself flawlessly. It appears in my mind’s eye more
like an infinity sign as it switches from the balance scales to
something more dynamic and with flux and flow. Harmony may
not give the expected result, and yet if you just hang in there, you
will see the flux and flow bring in exactly what you need – if you are
allowing movement.
“How does one become a butterfly?” she asked.
“You must want to fly so much that you are willing
to give up being a caterpillar.” ~ Author unknown
Allowing, yes, our next state of being and sister state of Harmony.
Most people use the word “healing” instead of Allowing. As we are
continuing to evolve and move further into places of growth, secrets
are no longer able to keep quiet, in our body, in our mind and in our
spirit. When people speak of healing, there it contains within it a
completion of some sort; changing from one way of being to another
way of being such as a broken heart to a mended one, for example.
This also cues in an ending. Healing is the end of the process and
we can cross it off our list of experiences. We have mended the
“broken” heart, check. We have restored health to the plant,
check. We have patched up the tire, check. We have mended the
relationship to so-and-so, check. To simply heal actually stops the
energy at its completion. We are done. We are “healed.” Like
fairness on the balance scales, it can be stagnate.
I hear voices of those defending Healing in that as healing takes
place new things come into being. Yes, yes, they do! And those
who find Healing as their destined end will see that they tend to
leave behind the essence in which that has brought them to such
Healing. To leave behind is a completion, an ending, and can stop
the flow of incoming energy. This is especially true if one is afraid.
I offer another suggestion to this space. Use “healing” to teach
you how to step into Allowing. To Allow is to accept and to
acknowledge. As long as healing is seen in the light of “done-ness”,
a separation still occurs: That which came before Healing and that
which comes after. Allowing is a space where the one who is in
connection can be in agreement with and negotiate terms of
Harmony, the flux and flow of life. Accepting gifts of perfect
moments is bringing forth the part of you who has trained for this
next moment from all your previous ones.
There are so many people out there who have no idea how
influential they have been to me by just being who they were in the
moment. Just showing up is enough to fill imagination, provide
confirmation, provide a heart whisper to someone else or receive
one for you. Allowing that which you no longer need to simply
move provides dynamics, no force, no anger, it just moves by the
very virtue of you allowing it to. And when that which you no
longer need can move, that which provides you with what you do
need can move to you.
“If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies”
~Author Unknown
Allowing is applicable in connection to listening to the voice of the
body. The body is an amazing machine with a language unique to
itself, unique to you, and at the same time completely connected to
all languages around it. Science has shown we are effected by those
around us the same as we affect others. When we listen to our body
when it communicates we can allow movement with this energy and
experience harmony.
This applies to relationships, physical well-being, emotions, thinking,
sleeping, food, and the list goes on. When I am at the grocery store,
I ask the apples, “Who is coming home with me today?” There
may be perfectly “good” apples, but sometimes they are not mine.
Allowing the information from the apple that matches my family to
come forward is more fun and I spend less time rather than
mindlessly going through bruised apple after bruised apple. And I
get really great apples!
There are those who go on automatic pilot not allowing themselves
to have great apples or imaginary or energetic flights with the music
or do not allow harmony in relationships, whether it is to Self or to
Others. For those interested in the experience of such a place, the
Universe has a sense of humor and a way to support us in amazing
ways. Once, I did not want to share something with anyone else, so
by golly, that thing mysteriously “disappeared”. I could not find it
anywhere. I looked for weeks! (I did not even get to share with
myself!) Then when I let go, the part of me who did not want to
share was allowed movement, poof, there it was, hidden in plain
sight the whole time.
Harmony and Allowing are heart-centered fields of light and
provide dynamic flow of energy in and out with ease, joy and, well,
it all just brings a sense of love that is beyond mere vocabulary
education. There is no completion with an end. There is a
movement of outward inward and inward outward in perfect
rhythm, perfect flow. Like the soft breath you take every day, you
allow the beauty of life to leave you to help the plants (carbon
dioxide) and the plants allow the splendor of life to exit their leaves
(oxygen) to assist you. Breathe that in! Symbiotic – it all is.
Everything. All you do is training for the next thing you are going to
do. Enjoy it. There is no healing in this sense, only allowing.
Allowing that which you no longer need to move, and that which
you do need to come forward to meet you.
Experiences we had yesterday train us for today as today prepares
us for tomorrow. Connect with your experiences, open up to the
perspective of Harmony happening right before your eyes. Allow
for movement, gentle, slow, quick and direct, deliberate in
connecting to you. There are parts of you that are waiting to
unfold from a chrysalis and other parts of you still enjoying the art
of eating enough to produce a transformative slumber. And then
there are parts of you that are free, flowing, in an ever glorious flight
of the thoughts or dreams of a child’s imagination fueled simply by
the ribbons of song.
Once you have Allowed movement of energy, there is something
called Harmony in your journey. Here we find Mastery; a Master
to none and a Master with all.
“What the caterpillar calls the end of the world,
the master calls a butterfly.” ~Richard Bach
How to create Harmony and Allowing:
1. Begin by acknowledging what you do not need anymore.
This can also be a space of trust when something you
wanted/desired changes directions.
2. Let go.
3. Be at peace that you do not have to fill that space back up
with anything. No forcing results. See the gifts, benefits,
blessings of the flux and flow of direction.
4. When you are ready, what you need will come and it will
have a place now that you have made yourself available to
receive it.
~Bright Star
Copyright 2007-2010 all articles are the personal property of Cheryl Kaufmann and
Bright Star Inspirations. Sharing information is permitted without written consent
but must be accompanied by acknowledgment of the source via this website, author's
name and/or business. Further articles can be viewed on the blog.
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