The Grace Space

Welcome to Season 4 of The Grace Space!

There are seasons in life, just as there are seasons in the year. And it's important to recognize that these seasons are a natural part of how we grow and evolve.

It does no good to resist winter when we're in winter. Winter has its purpose and its place. Under the ground, in the dark, miraculous things are happening, even though what appears before our eyes seems grey, cold, and dead.

In our human life, we experience winter as seasons of endings that can feel like death. These are opportunities to process all the emotions that we associate with death -- fear, grief, regret, sadness, despair -- and to ask the deeper questions about life.

This season of The Grace Space is the most personal one yet. I'm going to take you with me as I apply the principles of spiritual law to my own dark night of the soul. Because as it happens, I'm in one. 

And the content of our life is the curriculum for our evolution.

In this first episode we're going to talk about what's really been driving our choices and decisions, running (and sometimes ruining) our lives, and my encounter with my personified ego during a shamanic journey. Which was basically the first domino.

But don't worry -- there's plenty to laugh about too. Like this clip from The Heat, which I mention at the end of the episode.

In fact, humour and death are close cousins. So let's go.

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There seems to be some confusion about what it means to 'stand in your Truth'. 

What is my truth? Am I allowed to be myself? What does that even mean? What about other people? If I'm true to myself, it could hurt others.

If I'm true to myself, my life might fall apart!

Yes.

When we truly 'stand in our truth', we find out whether our carefully constructed life can withstand it.

Was it a real life? Or a fake one?

As we said last week, courage is the price of admission for self-initiation on the spiritual path.

In this final Q&A we get to the heart of the matter and strip away all the habits and justifications we use as bandaids and ways to avoid actually growing. We'll talk about...

 And more in this final episode of Season 3. 

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The egoic mind is full of resistance to spiritual truth. But there is another part of us that recognizes it when we hear it.

When that part of us outweighs the ego’s resistance, the thirst for growth becomes all-consuming. But you have to be willing to go deep if you really want to be free. 

Courage is the price of admission to your True Self.

This panoply of perfect puzzlers in this episode represents our attempt to finesse answers from our True Self and leap from one paradigm to another.

This Q&A is a journey from the mind to the heart, the 3rd dimension to the 5th dimension, the linear to the nonlinear.

Today we're grappling with...

And much more! Join me as we explore and discover more thanks to your questions.

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During this third season of The Grace Space, I've shared spiritual keys of inner alchemy with you, and gone deep in the telling of some of the stories of my own journey on the Path of Grace.

Your messages of gratitude have really touched me -- and your questions too! 

I promised you I would dedicate an entire episode to addressing those questions collected during the course of this season so you can go deeper.

It turns out to be more than one episode! Thanks to your interest and your courageous questions, we will spend the next few episodes in exploring them.

In today's episode, we'll talk about...

And much more, including grandiose toasters, my ego's nickname, and a really loud computer fan.

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“Your path is the path of Grace”, my teacher told me several years after I had committed to my spiritual journey. Intuitively I knew it was true, but I can’t say I understood what exactly it meant.

Over the years I’ve deeply pondered what Grace is, how it has acted in my life, and what it means to be on the path of Grace.

I see it as a path of simplicity. Simply being YOU, unadorned.

How? By dropping the mask -- letting go of everything that is false and leaving the sleepy comfort of your cocoon.

When we let go of playing games and playing roles to get our needs met, whether emotionally, physically, financially, or even spiritually, we enter a new space of consciousness like walking from a dank, stuffy room into the fresh air.

That’s when magic happens: we attract the Grace by our new frequency.

I didn’t understand any of this back when a dear friend angelically guided me toward a new vocation on the path of Grace after her passing.

In today’s episode, I share…

And lots more, including visions of domes in France, singing with kids in hockey skates, and the best preparation for being a yogi.

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The floor is officially open for your questions (see the link below to submit yours), to which I will devote an entire future episode! 

Submit your questions for Q&A: https://www.clairelautier.com/q-a-page

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This quote from Anton Chekhov’s play, The Three Sisters, perfectly describes the state of being I existed in for nearly 20 years of my life.

In fact, it describes the state of many, many people who don’t yet have access to the heart space.

In today's episode, I share with you the story of how I lost my voice for so many years -- and my access to the heart space --  and how I found it again. 

We'll talk about...

... and much more, including spiritual guidance from the Other Side, angels dressed as human beings, heart failure, and The Sound of Music.

Here's the link to the song I wrote for my father: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1x70wCcuzX-T2W4O2LIz4L21oNiX1Miq5/view?usp=sharing

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The floor is officially open for your questions (see the link below to submit yours), to which I will devote an entire future episode! 

Submit your questions for Q&A: https://www.clairelautier.com/q-a-page

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This is the story of how I learned to accept, embrace, and begin to embody my spiritual name.

Spiritual naming has a long tradition in ancient cultures; a spiritual name is a guide in the awakening of consciousness which affirms your spiritual destiny and elevates your spirit.

A spiritual name contains mantric sounds which beneficially affect your energy meridians and even influence brain activity when spoken or meditated upon.

It also acts as a challenge to uproot everything in you that feels small and unworthy.

In this episode, I share...

And much more... including soul star chakra activation, my little cocoon in Carcassonne, pulling a hukam for guidance, and becoming the peaceful warrior.

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The floor is officially open for your questions (see the link below to submit yours), to which I will devote an entire future episode! 

Submit your questions for Q&A: https://www.clairelautier.com/q-a-page

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In today's episode of The Grace Space, I share how a symbolic act can express a spiritual intention and open the door to a deeper transformation.

My intention was to reveal myself to myself.

To live as the Self is uncompromisingly authentic and requires boldness, courage, and a gentle refusal to conform to the roles that are expected of us.

It's a refusal to betray the soul by stupefying ourselves with the familiarity of our comfort zone, playing it safe, and bolstering each others' illusions.

It is not a reaction against something else, but a balanced, compassionate and tender response to the falsity of the world. -- a promise, renewed daily, to drop all pretense and to be True.

And it starts with you. Naturally.

I was definitely not ready to live that honestly -- so I shaved my head instead.

In today's episode, I share the story of my first attempt to show my true colours -- at least, my true hair colour!

We'll discuss...

And lots more, including winning the battle but losing the war, my henna routine, and more beautiful words from Rumi.

Watch a 10-second video of the deed!

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The floor is officially open for your questions (see the link below to submit yours), to which I will devote an entire future episode! 

Submit your questions for Q&A: https://www.clairelautier.com/q-a-page

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This is the story of how I went from living on the surface of life to diving down into my own darkness to rescue a slumbering princess -- me.

But not the me I thought I was. This was the frozen Light of my Soul, imprisoned in cold glass, and buried in the land of the Dead out of loyalty to a long gone, beloved father.

I share with you how I was made aware of it one rainy morning in the Alps, and the tool I was given to begin my journey.

We'll also talk about...

And much more, including anchoring your Soul Body, the metaphor of the stage, and parts of your life you forgot all about because you just couldn't process them.

We all have a shadow self. But the shadow is nothing to be afraid of.

In fact, the shadow is the portal to the Light.

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The floor is officially open for your questions (see the link below to submit yours), to which I will devote an entire future episode! 

Submit your questions for Q&A: https://www.clairelautier.com/q-a-page

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Whatever step we’re taking spiritually is going to make some waves inwardly -- and probably outwardly too. 

The inner work we do doesn't only affect us -- it affects the collective because we're all connected. And it especially affects those nearest and dearest to us.

When you start to change, it creates ripple effects in the world around you.

Family dynamics are affected, relationships have to adapt or fall apart. 

The ripples awaken subconscious fears, tear from us cherished illusions, and expose the fault lines in the fragile constructions of our lives we have tried so hard to hold together.

If our houses are built on sand, they start to slide. And usually, we do all we can to keep up appearances, for as long as we possibly can.

In this episode of our series on The Path of Grace, I share with you...

And much more, including my faux-pas in the French 'actors centre', seva time for character defects, and befriending deep sea fish in the abyss.

The floor is officially open for your questions (see the link below to submit yours), to which I will devote an entire future episode! 

Submit your questions for Q&A: https://www.clairelautier.com/q-a-page

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