Relaxing To Save the World: Insights from Kuan Yin

Kuan Yin is a Buddhist deities who represents the ultimate expression of compassionate loving kindness. She is said to hear and respond to all the cries of beings requesting aid. She is often depicted with a vessel of amrita, the nectar of compassion, or with a spiritual dragon. Kuan Yin is one of many Bodhisattvas, a fully enlightened being devoted to assisting humanity's liberation from pain, suffering and rebirth before entering the divine cosmic realms of eternity.

Kuan Yin has been a primary teacher goddess for me for the last 10 years, providing an amazing role model of generous, radiant all-encompassing, super nurturing LOVE! Her delicate femininity is powerful in a tender way. Her soft gentle spirit gains intergalactic strength from it's softness. She is the ultimate expression of sweet service through devotion and caring.

I've had the above statue of Kuan Yin for the past two years want to share some downloads I have had around it. I got it at a time when I tirelessly worked, day and night, weekdays and weekends to build my business and meet every customer's needs, at the expense of my own personal life, family and marriage. They were intense times full of the contrast of stress, lonliness and exhaustion ~ all wrapped up in false ideas of service, healing and success for me.

The first time I saw this statue, I stood stark still and received a major transmission about the power of the divine feminine. It was something like this...

True divine feminine energy benefits the planet through maximizing receptivity.  Honor yourself and the planet by giving from your own luminous energetic overflow. The cosmic feminine surrenders to restful replenishment and absorbs nourishing solar and lunar energy through basking. Though conscious languishing, you can store up an intergalactic powerhouse of life force energy which can be deliberatly and lovingly shared with an ever expanding number of people through grace and flow.

In short, I caught a glimpse of the savioress of the universe doing her work through chilling out! She is soaking up prana through rest and self care and from this place of shimmering radiance- sharing. This was quite an opposite to how I had been functioning at the time...

Since my big life transition in February, I have been crafting a life based on this model as an experiment to discover how I can allow myself to move into the ultimate, healing and shining goddess vibration.

In short, I've been slowing down. 

After arriving back from teaching in the UK and after getting back from my book tour, I've been developing a yoga practice of once or twice per day when possible. I've been surrendering into my muscles and bones and breath and feeling sensations sing through my body. I've been taking time to prepare nourishing foods for myself like green juices, greens smoothies, dehydrated greens. I planted a kale garden. I've been taking time to clean out closets and organize my home and business. I've been taking long walks and doing lots of dancing. I've been hooping under the open sky at music festivals and making new friends. I've been investing time into Abraham seminars, reading books and jumping on my trampoline. I've been taking saunas about every other day, doing focus wheels, journaling, making piles of things to give away and sell and creating collages. I've been doing meditations, taking journies with my crystals and contemplating what I want to do, be and have in my life. I've been singing. I've been reading about the craft or writing and working on my first novel. I've been soaking up the beauty of visionary art and feeling deep appreciation for this life I live.

During all of this healing, I have felt myself growing full to bursting with inspiration. The urge to sing, write, paint and create visionary and healing projects has been overflowing. I've gotten very specific ideas about things to do, make and bring into material reality. I have daily a-ha's about how I can be more fully through creative expression who I am so I can fully vessel what I am here to share. I am beyond the edge of who I have been, and it is thrilling...

Of course, meanwhile, "work" has somewhat fallen by the wayside. I've left most business matters to my new office manager, Kelsie, who calls me when she has questions. Emails take longer to get answered and phone calls take longer to get returned. The voicemail box has gotten full 3 times and stayed that way for a day or two. The manic, compulsive energy to constantly watch every hoop video, read all related social networking posts, push myself to practice daily, attend every hoop event and "stay on top" of the industry has softened. Basically, I've being doing the bare minimum to keep things flowing for a while, and (the previously unthinkable) delaying in sending out my monthly newsletter. This is the first time in 8 years I have really slowed down...

I've been teaching hoopdance after a long hiatus and cherishing the energy and fun of sharing guidance~ the very reason why I began the whole business in the first place. I also started classes on an amazing platform in a redwood grove across from my house where I feel ancient and powerful energy infusing our experience. I've been loving facilitating the teacher and performance trainings, which again are so close to the empowering reasons why I began this business as well: supercharging goddesses to confidently create space for transformation. All my classes have been sold out and yielding so much energetic return. It feels SO GOOD to be taking care of myself and focusing only on what I do best from overflow...

Of course, I do need to ramp up the biz side of things a bit as debt has accrued from this experiment. But it has been and continues to be a very healing exploration. Honestly, it hasn't even been that intentional. My whole being simply stopped and had to keep stopping every day for spiritual feeding. And thus, the de-ramping began...

So... we shall see where this all evolves to. I feel so grateful for the many wonderful, wonderful people, experiences and things which nourish me every day. I am so happy to be alive! I am so grateful for the gift of being here, to be 36 going on 37, living in Mill Valley, having the most awesome business in the world~ HoopGirl, having my mom nearby, having clean water, having nourishing organic food, having such a sturdy home...ah! So much to be thankful for.  I love my body, I love my world, I love my journey and anticipate delicious tidal waves of joy and love continuing to cascade into my life. I am so grateful to the divine cosmic impulse which inspires me to keep expanding, evolving and stretching the definition of who and what I am. Peace!

Comments

[jennaluna]

aaahhhh, this post made me feel relaxed just reading it.

thank you for the inspiration as usual.

[Laura]

I love Kuan Yin :) I have a picture of her on my altar... Lovely to read about her energies infusing your life. Hope this time of healing will help to refresh, revive and inspire you!