Four Part Meditation (5 Minutes)

 

1. Take a moment of gratitude - intentionally think about what you are thankful for in your life, in all areas.
2. Life of loved ones - imagine a golden light surrounding them as they go about their day.
3. Think about what success would look like for you today?  What does it feel like?  Visualize that feeling, that experience.
4. Simply be present, be still - notice the rise and fall of the breath, sounds of the room or outdoors...just be present.

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Come one, Come all!!!!

The most difficult griefs....

 

THE SHELL

An open sandy shell

on the beach

empty but beautiful

like a memory

of a protected previous self.

The most difficult griefs,

ones in which

we slowly open

to a larger sea, a grander

sweep that washes

all our elements apart.

So strange the way

we are larger

in grief

than we imagined

we deserved or could claim

and when loss

floods into us

like the long darkness it is

and the old nurtured hope

is drowned again,

even stranger then

at the edge of the sea,

to feel the hand of the wind

laid on our shoulder,

reminding us

how death grants

a fierce and fallen freedom

away from the prison

of a constant

and continued presence,

how in the end

those who have left us

might no longer need us,

with all our tears

and our much needed

measures of loss

and that their own death

is as personal

and private

as that life of theirs

which you never really knew,

and another disturbing thing,

that exultation

is possible

without them.

And they for themselves

in fact

are glad to have let go

of all the stasis

and the enclosure

and the need for them to live

like some prisoner

that you only wanted

to remain incurious

and happy in your love,

never looking for the key,

never wanting to

turn the lock and walk

away

like the wind,

unneedful of you,

ungovernable,

unnamable,

free.

It's a Ray of Light today....

Watch this Ray of Light!

and let it make your day!!! 

All becoming has needed me....

 

Da neigt sich die Stunde und ruhrt mich an

The hour is striking so close above me,

so clear and sharp,

that all my senses ring with it.

I feel it now: there's a power in me

to grasp and give shape to my world.

I know that nothing has ever been real

without my beholding it.

All becoming has needed me.

My looking ripens things

and they come toward me, to meet and be met.

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

I'll dance with you.....

 

"And I'll dance with you in Vienna,

I'll be wearing a river's disguise.

The hyacinth wild on my shoulder

my mouth on the dew of your thighs.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook,

with the photographs there and the moss.

And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty,

my cheap violin and my cross."

~ Leonard Cohen

We are held gently by the earth, yet crucified by our pain...

The blood line of God is connected to everything...

shells on the ocean shore, the mushrooms growing in the forest, 

the trees stretching to the clouds, the tiniest speck of snow in the winter, 

and our dust-to-dustness...

we are all created and tethered to this sacred gift of creation....

My Jesus

by Catherine Duclos

grecian white wall fall endlessly away

then return

spreading virginal folds of heat

undulating the length

of the freshly killed man

nailed to the wall

supple thighs lay limply together caressed

by razors of sun beating down 

upon the ebony carved body

glazed with ancient sweat

the lion maned head slips

softly to his chest

poised

in acquiescence

above the branches

of the tree

cut into arms

held firmly

by the crucifixion

of insistence

No more running...see yourself...you are safe....

 

INSISTENCE  DEMANDS  SURRENDER  

YOURSELF

DO THIS DO THAT 

DO EVERYTHING YOU ARE MEANT

TO DO TO BE

YOU ARE THE WORLD INSIDE OUTSIDE

BECOME FREE NOW

NO MORE HIDING RUNNING

SCARED ASHAMED

LABELS DROP DISAPPEAR

NOTHING STOPS YOU

NOTHING STOPSYOU

NOTHING STOPS YOU

You are loved and protected and safe now, even amidst what is going on right now!  You have yourself and as you surrender to that, you are free now...

I love you, as the world loves you...as you love yourself...

Always, love Catherine

Not all who wander are lost...

 

You are never lost, only searching... 

you are never lost, you are only wandering...

you are never lost, you are only finding yourself...

you are never lost, you are only finally finding your home...

Listen to this beautiful song by Lana Del Ray to start your day...

Holding you tenderly....

 

TENDERLY

 

I hold you tenderly

as the landscape inside

breaks open with whispers and screams.

Tell me the secrets you keep

hidden amongst the trees

guarding wounds kept silent

where nobody sees.

Surrender your islands of loneliness

surrounded by seas of tears

lapping gently under sheltering skies

where shadows of sun reveal the path

to weave along the way home.

Home, where I am

always

holding you in my dreams.

Love after love...Happy Valentine's day my loves...

 

Sometimes you need arms around you...to be wanted...

 

SECOND SIGHT

by David Whyte

Sometimes, you need the ocean light,

and colours you’ve never seen before

painted through an evening sky.

 

Sometimes you need your God

to be a simple invitation

not a telling word of wisdom.

 

Sometimes you need only the first shyness

that comes from being shown things

far beyond your understanding,

 

so that you can fly and become free

by being still and by being still here.

 

And then there are times you want to be

brought to ground by touch

and touch alone.

 

To know those arms around you

and to make your home in the world

just by being wanted.

 

To see eyes looking back at you,

as eyes should see you at last,

 

seeing you, as you always wanted to be seen,

seeing you, as you yourself

had always wanted to see the world.

You are NOT CRAZY! Listen to me....

 

Have you ever touched the sun?

by Catherine Duclos 

 

Have you ever touched the sun?

 

Had your darkness burned away

 

By its brilliance and Beauty?

 

I have, and it’s magnificent!

 

The rainbows fall out of the sky,

 

Almost so you can catch them.

 

How can everything be so beautiful

 

That you want to cry?

 

I cry and I laugh and I say thank you

 

To whomever it is that did all This.

 

I am alive, I remember now, I am alive.

 

In the darkness, I forgot.  I forgot all this beauty.

 

This is the way life is supposed to be, for everyone,

 

Freedom and light and love.

 

But people say I’m crazy when I talk like this,

 

That I’m bipolar and I’m just manic.

 

How can that be true when all I’m experiencing is life

 

As it should be, as it is.

 

I’m not crazy.  Don’t call me crazy.  Call me amazing

 

Call me alive!

Why are we so sad...from Jason Silva

 

Listen to him!

Depression does not have to overcome us!!

I am here to help you escape from your sadness and despair!

Book a free 30-minute consultation with me here:

Wild Serenity Life Coaching

Have a beautiful and radiant day today my dears...

love, Catherine

p.s. more of Jason Silva on my website!

You don't have to be afraid!

The reason why you are all so profoundly impacted by the isolation, the loneliness, the anxiety, depression and fear during this time of Covid-19 is because ultimately

YOU ARE AFRAID OF DEATH!!

I want you to watch this video!  It will help you to cope with your fears and find some peace in these times. You must understand that the reason we face death is so that we can find our meaning and purpose in life...we only have now, we only have today....don't fear anymore, just live my dearests...

REMEMBER, YOU ARE NOT ALONE!!

I love you,

Catherine

 

I've been thinking...

 

A beautiful quote about our children:

“Your children are not your children.

They are sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself.

They come through you but not from you.

And though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

You may give them your love but not your thoughts,

For they have their own thoughts.

You may house their bodies but not their souls,

For their souls dwell in the house of tomorrow, which you cannot visit, not even in your dreams.

You may strive to be like them, but seek not to make them like you.

For life goes not backward nor tarries with yesterday.

You are the bows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth....."

Khalil Gibran

~ Henri Cartier Bresson

How are you today my dears?

 

TODAY IS A FIERCE DAY!!

NOTHING CAN STOP YOU TODAY!! It's time to take control of your life and LIVE beautifully, gorgeously, passionately...there are no excuses for waiting...CARPE DIEM, seize this day my darlings!!

Here are my words especially for you today:

RIDING THE WILD

by Catherine Duclos

 

comfortable insistence

rides the wild normal

waves of brilliant turbulence.

 

difference. likeness.

resistance.  surrender.

always more hunting.

 

eyes wide open

closed against rejection

seeking sheltering skies.

 

seamless public acceptance

transforms landscapes

of wounded minds

 

behind oppressive facades

recognition unfurls

lush beauty and

dissolves the binding darkness.

LOVE YOU ALL!!! XOXO

Love's confusing joy...

 For you my dears...

Love’s Confusing Joy

If you want what visible reality

can give, you are an employee.

 

If you want the unseen world,

you are not living with your truth.

 

Both wishes are foolish,

but you’ll be forgiven for forgetting

that what you really want is

love’s confusing joy.

 

-        ~  Rumi