We hear the word consistency a lot - in our creative work, our lives, our practice. It’s as if we will lose everything if we step off the consistency treadmill - but we tend to lose ourselves in that binary process. 

But what can be manifested from a body consistently comparing itself, stressing itself to meet others' demands and own expectations?

If you feel the weight of that word, and all the success it promises, then remember that consistency originally means ‘to be standing firm' - and you don’t have to lose yourself to that kind of stagnancy.

Instead, remember the word accumulative, meaning ‘to contribute through movement’ and keep adding those small moments of value to your life that move you forward.

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NOTE on this week's episode! If you would like to enhance this practice please take your shoes and socks off while you listen.

We all long to live life a little more barefooted, freer to express ourselves, untamed by the external environment, but like our planet, we have created urbanized precious areas that sever us from our naturally wild nature. This is a 10-minute talk, 11-minute guided meditation, 3-minute ending. Learn to rewild areas within your psyche that have longed to be left to heal naturally. Thank you for sharing, commenting, or reviewing if it resonates, and stay wild, dear child. Sez
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This episode is a little different from the meditations and poetry I usually offer. I sit down in the woodshed with the summer rain pouring down outside and open up a frank conversation with you about why choosing your heart will make your life so much harder....and why that's such a good thing.

Some topics of interest:
2:08 (my story so far...)
5:51 (why returning to your ancestral land might not provide you the belonging you seek)
14:56 (how to tell if you are making the right decision)
15:33 (what 'the path of least resistance' really means)
17:33 (why we should just follow our hearts anyway)

Thanks for listening, for sharing, and for taking some time to yourself today. Sez

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Mentions:
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

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I am currently writing a guided meditation about rewilding the body as there seem to be many misconceptions about the word.

Rewilding isn’t about trying to go back to living as hunter-gatherers. Rather, it's about examining our cultural paradigms, seeing how they affect our spiritual, physical, mental, and emotional health.

We don’t have to demonize our culture in order to Rewild ourselves, because urbanization is an aspects of ourselves too. We can however, with awareness, learn what aspects of our modern culture rob us of our basic humanity, our intuition and our freedom.

Using that awareness, we can live in our culture (and ourselves) more courageously, express ourselves more authentically, and live more attuned to the natural forces that help guide us through life. 

Some Rewilding questions you might like to ask yourself today!

- What roles don't allow me to walk barefooted in my life? (wife/husband/parent/job role/carer/sister/brother etc.)

- Why can’t I express my wilder Self in these roles?

- What one part of me can I allow to slowly grow wild again in this role? (e.g if you feel overly domesticated in your partnership, can you nurture your need for adventure? Or If your job restricts you in unhealthy ways, how can you speak up for your creative needs more? Is parenthood overwhelming? How can you find more play in this role? How do you feel about your own body? Can you give the ‘farming' of your body a rest and let it blossom in its own beautiful way?)

Much more to come on this topic, so keep finding your wild :)

Sez

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The Heart and I is a remedial poem to help you connect with your wiser Heart. While you listen, place your hand over your own heart and imagine that the words are being spoken by you. Listen to this episode every night before you fall asleep and initiate a dream into your life that will help you heal and mend heartaches, grief, and losses.

From my heart to yours, Sez
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(SHORT VERSION - Affirmations Only)

Trauma is a story unexpressed in your body. Instead of being processed, that pain became consumed and found itself among your flesh. Now this story protects you at all cost – the body has become a soldier against its most destructive response pattern; indirect but perpetual threat. The body is therefore almost always in a state of survival and when you are on the battlefield – there is no time, nor freedom for healing.

But every story can be healed. 

We just need to learn how to become the authors of our own bodies.

Listen to these affirmations every morning for 7 days and feel the difference in your body.

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"Words are seeds. We are their earth. Blossom in truth." Sez Kristiansen (Siska, 2 years old)
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Trauma is an unprocessed story still held in the body.

Can you heal these stories and rewrite the body to become the confident, empowered companion we seek to embody?

Listen to these affirmations and discover how you can re-story your body so that you can live deeper and more connected to your Spirit, source, or higher consciousness.

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Dear one,

It will take more than joy and ease to create your ‘Best Self'.

Because the misalignment is part of the alignment, just as the fracture is an integral part of your greater wholeness.

Your future ‘Best Self' is not made up of only goodness. 

The best part of her is when she faces the fight, the loss, and the struggle, and chooses to hold herself through it anyway.

Manifestation is desire made into matter and the very nature of desire is to bring life into what has yet a heartbeat.

Desire, and the creation of it, is messy and hard and black in its essence, like what existed before the universe, before the birth of the sun, before you entered the womb. 

You will therefore not embody your 'best self' in spite of your struggle - but because of it.

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POEM

I met her 

when she had

fallen

so far, 

she could

no longer 

remember 

the shape 

of the sun.

I met her

when nothing

was left to 

hold onto,

and freefalling

had become

freedom.

I met her

when she

had reached

the peaty floor

and there was

only darkness

to hold her.

And was

overcome

with joy

because 

I knew she had

finally reached

a place 

where she

would be able

to plant the

seeds of her

future in:

at the very bottom.

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Dear one, 

Old patterns fashion the body. 

Some habits weave these limbs so tight, they have closed you off from your Heart. 

And when that disconnect restricts you from seeing your true nature…look beyond yourself, your shape, and your body.

For there is a truer mirror to be used.

Take a moment right now, in the room that you’re in, in the space you occupy - and look closer. 

The table, once part of a woodland, once a forgotten seed sleeping in the soil, now, here in this room.

The material hugging your skin, once a crop soaked in warmth and nourished by the rains, a thousand strands of sunlight touching your skin. 

The food in your belly, grown by mother moon and her seasons, now having a conversation with your body.

The daylight cutting through the window, its glass made of eroded rock and minerals, eroded over millions of years.

Cultivate a closer relationship with everything around you and you will cultivate a more intimate relationship with yourself.

TIPS ON FINDING NATURE’S CONNECTION WHEREVER YOU ARE

- Use a different mirror. When you see something beautiful in nature, remember that that there is an element of yourself being reflected back.

- Connect with your breath, often. Everything alive breathes. Take a deep breath and think about how many other living elements are breathing with you right now.

- Find wholeness in imperfection. Everything in nature is imperfect. Not a single petal, root, wing are the same (often our definition of perfection). Find a marked tree, a leaf-eaten rose, a discolored patch of grass, and notice how the plant grows anyway, never believing in the story of its flaws.

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POEM

Undulating valleys 

can be found in

the body’s

bending limbs,

wilder paths

in the 

untamed thickets 

of forgotten skin -

and reflected in 

the surface of 

deep blue water -

the Heart’s

unfettered youth

ever luring you back

into her depths.

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Dear one,

Love will heal, once you let go.

Because it is in the holding on to these old stories that you are keeping yourself separate from the life being written by a greater hand.

Abandon, with grace, everything that turns this wheel of perpetual conflict. The one between yourself and others, and the one between you and yourself.

Even if there is anger left, you are holding on.

Even if there is fear left, you are holding on.

Even if there is doubt left, you are still holding on.

Abandon this inner conflict as if you would an old house whose beams and rafters buckle inward, whose floorboards have thinned and splintered, whose warmth seeps out through the gaping cracks and whose body no longer offers a home for your inhabitancy.

And when everything, including yourself, has been abandoned, so is but Love left behind.

Because, Love requires nothing, not even a someone (especially not a someone), to exist within you.

Love is the alkaline that balances life’s acidity into neutrality, chaos into calm, fear into radical acceptance.

And only from acceptance can you stand in the wreckage of your life and begin to rebuild it from Love, because only then are you standing within your true Self.

So go ahead and lose yourself, only to realize that it’s not you that's being let go - but everything else you’re not.

Journal Questions:

- What am I still harboring within myself that has passed and needs to be abandoned now?

- What are my fears surrounding letting non-serving things go?

- How can I practice neutrality more in my daily life and do I have any associations with being detached from my emotional drama?

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POEM:
Love is

what is left

behind

when all else

has been 

abandoned. 

And to empty

yourself of 

it all 

will only

remind you of

how full

it feels to

to be 

unoccupied

by pain.

Love

is the 

silence

lingering

beneath

all sound.

Always available

to the one

courageous 

enough

to listen.

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