Cheryl Trine

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As you might know, I lived in Japan for a while and learned to speak Japanese. There is a word that I have always been intrigued by which comes to mind right now.

Nigiyakana means lively, bustling, noisy, like the busy office or crowded party. There is motion and lots of it in all directions. Voices are eager, emotions are high, and the energy can be intense. So intense that Nigiyakana can sometimes move into overload, a bustling, noisy rattle in your awareness that can be overwhelming. Nigiyakana in my head is not always a good thing. Nigiyakana can be too much, like an eggbeater in my brain where lively may become a deadening mess.

In contrast, I also am intrigued by another word: Shizuka. Shizuka is stillness, quiet, peace. Shizukano tokoro is the quiet place, the point of calm. In my head, Shizuka feels comfortable and safe. Oddly, it is not necessarily a place of no motion. In my head, Shizuka is the point where I can witness the motion of me inside and out. In my head, Shizuka is the opposite of Nigiyakana.

One way of describing life is to acknowledge life’s shift between the bustling, sometimes exciting, sometimes burdensome, motion on the one hand, and moments of tranquility which can witness balance and clarity. Bouncing between a flurry of motion and the calmness of quiet, life can seem to be both distraction and focus, uproar and serenity, trivial and substantial.

Though I tend toward moving away from Nigiyakana whether it is in my environment or just in my head, I have realized that part of this busy motion is a drawing in of an abundance of potential. Nigiyakana is offering me possibility. However, my job is not to figure out all the motion. My job is to learn to focus on what works for me in this moment. My job is to find the point of Shizuka, the point where I can give attention to the one motion needed by me now.

I am deceiving myself if I think that the only place to witness my motion is in the stillness. My challenge is learn to witness all of me in all moments. Learning to witness when there are fewer distractions helps me develop the skill and the awareness to not be so picky on when and where I get who I am in this moment and how I want to live now, in this moment.

Shizuka offers the gift of awareness and Nigiyakana offers the gift of discernment. Both offer me the opportunity to find quiet in the noise and my sound in the stillness. I hear because I can feel in all places the motion of my truth. What I learn in this moment, guides me to my next moment with its infinite and eternal possibility. I hear the mountain and begin my journey.

In Joy!

Cheryl

Fear can guide you to deeper understanding when you allow yourself to listen to Fear’s message.

Fear is a misconception about Truth which can become frozen within.

Fear holds within seeds for release.

Fear holds within you strands of panic and pain.

Fear also holds your truth.

This is the message that awaits you.

The challenge is allowing the message not to be overcome by the surrounding panic and pain.

Pain at its core is a subversion of truth.

Physical pain is held within the body when the body is asked to bear what it should not be required to bear.

Emotional pain arises in the midst of any pain when the heart witnesses what should not be required because it goes against individual truth.

Spiritual Pain arises when the Physical and Spiritual natures are out of balance between them and with Universal Life Force.

Fear thus arises from the occurrence of pain, the knowing and memory of pain, and the deep seated desire to avoid pain.

People though often mistake the way in which to deal with fear and pain as either avoidance or denial.  If x happens when y happens, I will now always avoid x and y.  In the initial moments this may be a very reasonable coping strategy, but over time x and y become frozen within you as arrested potential wanting to become form, festering like a sore one would rather, and usually does, ignore.

Frozen energy will push for release and niggle at the edges of your awareness until you have the courage to listen.

The response to fear is not avoidance or denial, but a gentle attention to fear through these questions:

What will allow me to release the frozen energy within, allowing it to complete its journey of potential to form to potential?

What is my fear’s message for me today?

Listen to the message of fear to find your way through.

Listen to fear’s message to find release from fear’s pain.

Listen to the message to find balance and truth.

In Witness with gentle attention,

Cheryl

PS — As someone who has dealt with crippling amounts of fear built up through too many events no one should bear, I do not speak of fear lightly, like it is something easy to put aside or to deal with simply.  Fear can overwhelm you making it difficult to live life at all.  Like I discuss above, eventually, the way beyond is through, by focusing on the message.  But don’t confuse listening to the message as a requirement to relive the pain.  Sometimes this is necessary, but not always.  And when it is too much to bear alone, find help, find support, someone who will stand witness with you to your message.

In the lives of our friends and family, there is much that happens that we cannot know because we are not privy to their internal, eternal process of Knowing.

Knowing is an inner, individual process which illuminates our darker corners. Knowing is ever evolving — becoming from moment to moment — a new motion within as we live our lives within what we know, do not know, and are yet unable to know.

In this sense the unknowable is that which is just beyond our grasp — that which dances just beyond our field of perception. The unknowable can go unnoticed easily as we go about the day-in and day-out of our lives. Yet the unknowable is also that which beckons, unrecognized, as the motivator of action, of thought, and of feeling.

Sometimes we mistake the unknowable as the dangerous and the chaotic because the unknowable can feel like the waters we dare never enter.

Look around you. Look at the circumstances of your life. Feel into the edges. What is unknowable? What feels like you should not enter? Ask yourself: Why? Ask yourself: Why not enter my unknowable? What will I find? What may I learn to embrace into my Knowing?

Winter is the time we take in each year’s passing to commune with our unknowable. Literally a time of going inside, winter in her barren aspect holds our seeds of knowing.

In this month of two full moons (12/2 & 12/31), the invitation of Winter Solstice from shortening to lengthening, and the many joyous holiday celebrations, I invite you to think a bit on your unknowable, letting the dark unveil your light.

In Joy!
Cheryl

Your journey of a lifetime begins not with a step but with the willingness to consider a new possibility, a new perspective, a new personal truth. 

Allowing the new allows your next step to adventure into new territory, into new possibilities.

Your willingness to consider is the break with a past which no longer serves, creating in this moment your soul’s life journey.

Your life purpose doesn’t exist in some magical world accessible only by the elite and the gifted.  Your life purpose unfolds right before you each time you consider new possibilities and feel within the truth of your next step. 

Know Thyself is an active process of self-discovery, not a process of pre-ordained, imposed steps to the easy life.  Your life purpose is thus not a stagnant thing, pre-determined and beyond your control. 

Your life purpose is the unfolding happening within that you create and that you claim and that you follow because you feel the truth and know it to be your life’s journey, your life’s purpose.

In this world of ours, there is now much needless shifting worry and anxiety about the state of affairs to come.  If you stop and listen to the deepest parts of yourself, you will first see that the anxiety stems first from the ego, inflexible within the change occuring within you.

When change happens, and it always is, change is always without fail an inner experience.  What you see around you is both an indication of others changing and a reflection of your change.  Because humans like to think that their hard inner work brings them to a perfected state where deep inner work is no longer required, you tend to think that it is now someone else’s turn to grow up and change.  However, change is always interactive, meaning your shift ignites shift elsewhere which in turn re-ignites more shift in you.

Also then, change is dynamic, a never-ending dance with the energetic flow of All That Is.  You feel anxiety when you do not feel in balance with your inner shifts or when your inner situation feels out of balance with the outside world.  The question is not about how someone else can be more enlightened, the question is: “How does this person with whom I do not agree or feel balance with help me reflect on or uncover that which is out of balance within me?”

Most often external conflict is about identifying within that which no longer serves you and is ready to be released.  Conflict seen in this light can be embraced as a powerful avenue for change and seeking balance, actually two sides of the same coin of the inner healing balance.

Healing balance is the point within, existing always, between the experience of our spiritual-physical being and the clear view of our soul within All That Is.  When we feel joy, peace, and love, we are experiencing our healing balance.  When we feel fear, judgment, and anger, we are in the process of releasing whatever blocks us from embracing this moment’s healing balance.

We live in a world of dynamic flow which requests our full awareness in this a unique moment in the flow of this infinite time and this eternal space as emanations of the knowable and unknowable divine All That Is.  Thus when someone, something, or some event tweaks your patience, take the opportunity to look inside for your lesson which, if attended to, will guide you to the ability to release what no longer serves and to embrace your most powerful self in the bliss and peace of your healing balance.

As I look across the possibilities for this year 2009, I see that the fulcrum for change is firmly in place.  But not a place where most humans are looking.  For the most part your view is limited to current events.  However, these events are but views of the shifts of yesterday, the view of the has-been and the never-more.

The view of tomorrow lies within your heart.  Your heart, connected through your Center of BE-ing to the power and beauty of All That Is, holds the seeds of all tomorrows.  Not as your known, but in the form of the unknown and beyond to the unknowable.

The answers you seek, the guidance you desire is always contained within what you do not know.  Information and the known of yesterday will not help you today to expand your world and claim the infinite possibilities of this powerful moment of Now.

Here’s the question to ask yourself: “What do I not know now that will help me move into my path of highest expression?”

Open your heart and your mind and listen to the song of your soul!  Hold your hand to your heart and listen!

Your song is for you, unique in this moment, unique in all moments, uniquely created by All That Is and your soul to bring you clarity, and a promise to help you find your way in this and all lives.  Hear your song and then trust yourself to live your song!

What your world needs now is everyone learning to follow the call of the unknown by hearing and listen to the call, the song of your soul.  Take a moment, let go of your worries and fears for just a moment and listen.

Let me know how this works for you.  In the days to come I will have more words of support and suggestion.

Take a deep breath, let it go, and Listen!  Your soul sings!