This is from our dear friend Heather, such a great insight. You may also want to join her amazing women's circle!
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I have a few questions for you and a simple story to share. Take a few moments to answers the following;
(Not general questions, but specific to you...)
- Do you receive Divine guidance from your mind or from your heart?
- Can YOU quiet your mind?
- Does life effect you or do you effect life?
Story:
A women went to the zoo to see the new special tiger that was just brought in. It was a rare and wild beast that everyone wanted to see. On the day she visited the zoo she was thrilled to see that there we not that many people at the zoo that day and that there was no one visiting the tiger exhibit at the time she arrived! To her surprise the door to the tiger cage was open and motivated by her extreme curiosity she entered the cage.... She looked around and didn't see the tiger. Then she heard a sound, it was the door to the cage closing. The tigers keeper didn't see her there and locked her in!!!!! Then as she turned around she was met with the eyes of the wildest beast alive! At first she panicked! She ran all over the enclosure yelling and screaming for HELP!!!!!!! She exhausted herself looking for ways out, all the while the hungry tiger watched her patiently knowing that she could never escape. Eventually the woman became helpless realizing she wold never be released, she was so tired of running in a locked cage knowing she couldn't get anywhere, knowing she couldn't escape. The Tiger approached her with drool falling from its mouth his eyes locked on hers, she had nowhere to go and in a moment of great courage like a warrior she offered herself to the mouth of the hungry tiger.
When we try to run from our feelings we exhaust ourselves, because we are never released from the cage of the mind. The only way out of the suffering of the mind is to stop, and face our FEELINGS not our thoughts. (face the tiger) The tigers is the feeling. Let what ever you feel devour you and you will realize that in a moment after offering yourself to the hungry tiger you will be transformed that the tiger will become your best friend and liberator, the cage will disappear and you will be free.... Yes just by simply feeling.
The best way I can help anyone is to assist them in seeing and feeling the dark scary corners of their lives. It takes only seconds to feel and yet we spend years and years running from a simple feeling.
We are walking around full of inexperienced emotion. We avoid our feelings by eating, sleeping, spiritualizing, talking to each other or "meditating" (escaping) drinking, sexing, shopping. Its all the equivalent of racing around the cage of the mind trying to escape. All we have to do is feel, and its only with Divine Grace that we can feel without story because when by Grace the story is not there then we can truly be present and the feeling is available to be experienced fully, start to finish never to return.
Note: Un experienced feelings become patterns. The feeling is trying to be experienced so it shows up repeatedly to be experienced and the mind avoids the feeling because the mind cant be present, thus the full experience of the emotion is never felt.
If you have a pattern repeating in your life speak to God about this, ask for Grace to feel what has yet not been fully experienced and be prepared to be set free!!!!!
The soul vision of the CIRCLE practice is to help men and women to be set free!
-Heather O'Quinn
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