Sez Kristiansen

The word 'Distraction' has found itself in such a negative light - but it comes from the original meaning, “to draw away from the mind.” Being drawn away from the mind can be a fundamental healing process right now that guides us back to our hearts and returns us to our lives with a very different perspective.

I hope you say ‘yes' to those healthy distractions that draw you away from the mind and into the heart. It’s medicine for these times (not to mention for our creative businesses) where we are all feeling this new sense of exhaustion.

Questions for today:

• What are my healthy distractions? (activities, hobbies, practices that draw me away from my mind)
• What am I curious to try but haven’t because I feel it’s irresponsible/too expensive/not practical etc.?

Thanks for listening, sharing & commenting! Sez

words by @sez.kristiansen

POEM LYRICS

It Took Me Away

I took a break 

for a while.


Not for any reason 
other than 
I heard the rustle 
of a wild bodied
animal in the 
dark woods
and decided
to followed it.
And it took me away...

It took me away from what

I knew,

and it took me away

from the place I 

had been standing still

for so long in.

It took me away from even

my most meaningful work,

It took me away...

And when I left the woods, 

I came across a dragonfly,

I wanted to see my own reflection

in its mosaic wing

so I followed it too,

and it took me away.

It took me away 

from myself

and even from the things 

I most love,

it took me away...

And when I came across a 

heaving field of oats, I wanted

to know why a tree stood in 

its center, 

and so I followed its furrowed

lines into its core.

And when the berry black

raven perched

high up on the oak's eaves 

invited me to follow it, 

I willingly said yes - 

and it took me away.

It took me away

and weaved me so 

tightly around the land

that I began to loosen

my bearings

and before I knew it

I didn’t know my way back

and all I knew was 

that I was away.

And when I came to a small

cleft in a rock

where the rainwater pooled

down into the earth,

I followed its trail

and it took me away,

it took me away from the woods,

the raven, and the dragonfly.

It took me away and I kept following 

the stream down and down, 

away and away

until I stood at the mouth of a

great ocean

and there was nowhere left to go.

But now I was no longer away, 

I was here, 

in this body, 

in this heart

and I no longer needed

the distance nor the distraction.

And with one deep breath,

I took the first wind current home, 

back to where I had once stood

in the woods,

but everything was different

everything was bathed in light.

And all the things I thought were

so important were now meaningless

and all the things I found little importance in 

were full of urgency.

And in that moment 

I realized 

that being taken away

was the only way 

I could truly return home again.

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There is a necessary packing away of dreams in one's life that - if done with love and acceptance, can make space for new ways of being in the world.

Because it is our un-lived lives that hurt our loved ones the most - not the ones we are living in right now. 

When we are truly present with who we are, what we have, and where we are right now - we are in our greatest power. And that strength doesn't only benefit us on an emotional level, it reaches right down into our cells and changes how we fundamentally carry ourselves through this life.

Most parents know what this feels like - to offer a dream back to the earth that was made long ago and for single-occupancy. But remember there is no loss in anything that is given away in reverence of Love. 

Questions you might like to ask yourself:

• What dream has wandered away from my Heart into my mind?
• What old dreams do I need to houseclean in order to make space for new and spontaneous ones to arise?
• If I got closer to my dream every time I became present to the moment, what would my day look like?

These images are of a place I have dreamt about my whole pre-motherhood life. An isolated, self-sustaining permaculture home where I would spend the seasons tending to myself through the land. 

But right now, if I were handed that life - I wouldn’t take it. Because right now, I need to switch hemispheres to be with my family. No amount of calendula. echinacea and thyme can compensate for time with loved ones. And in clearing out this dream for now, I will make space for a new kind of inhabitance; the one where I keeping tending to the home within myself and allow a for a new dream to be given life. 

May your dreams be given clarity through the inclusion of loved ones.

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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.

Thank you for sharing and commenting on @sez.kristiansen and Insight Timer!

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Sez is a nature poet and Nordic dweller, who wildcrafts short poetic remedies for emotional healing. Join her on www.sezkristiansen.com for free courses, e-books, and lots of audio love. 

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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

@sez.kristiansen
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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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