Louise Northcutt, LPC

art | Jennifer Bloom

Where would we be without our hugs! Enjoy this video. It will make your heart smile

Great conversation! https://podcasts.apple.com//unlocking-us-with/id1494350511

experiencing... healthy integration of fear with new free will choices... expansion occurring in our global container for experiencing light... pure present moment awareness, growing to include greater subtlety... nervous system healed, calm, alert, capable... interpersonal cosmic and world-centric ethics... great love to each... to all...

Great resource for noticing and naming emotions. https://karlamclaren.com/emotional-vocabulary-page/

In Honor of Ram Dass RIP ... you are home Before the stroke, I was on a very spiritual plane. I ignored my body, took it for granted. When I look at my lif...e, I see that I wanted to be free of the physical plane, the psychological plane, and when I got free of those, I didn’t want to go anywhere near them. But the stroke reminded me that I had a body and a brain, that I had to honor them. I am not this body. I am in this body, and this is part of my incarnation and I honor it but that isn’t who I am. The thinking mind is what is busy. You have to stay in your heart. You have to be in your heart. Be in your heart. The rest is up here in your head where you are doing, doing, doing. My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too. Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise. Let’s trade in all our judging for appreciating. Let’s lay down our righteousness and just be together. The next message you need is always right where you are. We’re all just walking each other home. When the faith is strong enough, it is sufficient just to be. It’s a journey towards simplicity, towards quietness, towards a kind of joy that is not in time. It’s a journey that has taken us from primary identification with our body and our psyche, on to an identification with God, and ultimately beyond identification. It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed. As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness. Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It’s not ‘I love you’ for this or that reason, not ‘I love you if you love me.’ It’s love for no reason, love without an object. "Your problem is you're... too busy holding onto your unworthiness." Ram Dass Quotes

HOW I BECAME A WARRIOR~~ Once, I ran from fear so fear controlled me. Until I learned to hold fear like a newborn. Listen to it, but not give in.... Honour it, but not worship it. Fear could not stop me anymore. I walked with courage into the storm. I still have fear, but it does not have me. Once, I was ashamed of who I was. I invited shame into my heart. I let it burn. It told me, "I am only trying to protect your vulnerability". I thanked shame dearly, and stepped into life anyway, unashamed, with shame as a lover. Once, I had great sadness buried deep inside. I invited it to come out and play. I wept oceans. My tear ducts ran dry. And I found joy right there. Right at the core of my sorrow. It was heartbreak that taught me how to love. Once, I had anxiety. A mind that wouldn't stop. Thoughts that wouldn't be silent. So I stopped trying to silence them. And I dropped out of the mind, and into the Earth. Into the mud. Where I was held strong like a tree, unshakeable, safe. Once, anger burned in the depths. I called anger into the light of myself. I felt its shocking power. I let my heart pound and my blood boil. Listened to it, finally. And it screamed, "Respect yourself fiercely now!". "Speak your truth with passion!". "Say no when you mean no!". "Walk your path with courage!". "Let no one speak for you!" Anger became an honest friend. A truthful guide. A beautiful wild child. Once, loneliness cut deep. I tried to distract and numb myself. Ran to people and places and things. Even pretended I was "happy". But soon I could not run anymore. And I tumbled into the heart of loneliness. And I died and was reborn into an exquisite solitude and stillness. That connected me to all things. So I was not lonely, but alone with All Life. My heart One with all other hearts. Once, I ran from difficult feelings. Now, they are my advisors, confidants, friends, and they all have a home in me, and they all belong and have dignity. I am sensitive, soft, fragile, my arms wrapped around all my inner children. And in my sensitivity, power. In my fragility, an unshakeable Presence. In the depths of my wounds, in what I had named darkness, I found a blazing Light that guides me now in battle. I became a warrior when I turned towards myself. And started listening.~ ~Jeff Foster

Great teacher and resource...

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