by Gizelle | Sep 3, 2017 | Following Our Heart, Growth/Self-Love
Grief and Joy are such a part of life — when one is in Joy, Grief is in the shadows, so one forgets how it is the sharpness of Grief that makes Joy possible. It’s the pits when we are forced to remember. Yet there is something to New Life that comes with...
by Gizelle | Aug 5, 2017 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
For many years I studied with a teacher who shared how the nature of conditioning shapes our identity constructs. When we first arrive on the planet, even before – from the moment we chose to be conceived – the veil is very thin. We have a connection with the Divine...
by Gizelle | Jul 16, 2017 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Living Life from the “Outside In” is to live Life as part of the whirlwind. There might be momentary pauses, when the wind stops whirling, allowing us to identify experiences or events as pieces of the puzzle that comprise the whirl of our life. Yet living life from...
by Gizelle | Jul 9, 2017 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Where does that leave ‘me’? Standing on the threshold of emptiness I realized that everything I thought I knew about me, everything thought I had, every action I took, everything that was ‘me’, wasn’t me. “It’s not yours to do” wasn’t directed toward me, but...
by Gizelle | Jun 25, 2017 | Leaps of Faith, Spirit/Oneness
The image before me is of a doorway, standing wide open, only blackness. I don’t know what lies beyond, only emptiness, not a speck of light, not even a reflection spilling over from the space I’m standing in. There is no floor, nor walls, nothing to help orient me...
by Gizelle | Jun 18, 2017 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
But living life from the “Outside In” may also create a dilemma. Spiritually we may look at those same events and question: “why is God doing this to me”, “what am I meant to learn from this”, “what do I have the power to change”? We get lost in the whirlwind or...
by Gizelle | Jun 11, 2017 | Change & Growth, Growth/Self-Love
I don’t have children, but I’ve had the opportunity to witness how older kids seem to have a harder time forgiving/forgetting, always bringing the focus back to themselves. For me, a product of my childhood, I’m reminded of the first time I came to...
by Gizelle | Oct 16, 2016 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
In the past I was plagued by a need to engage in mild combat with others about nothing and anything, which was often reflective of my inner state. I would get caught in the web of seeking power through defensiveness, rather than being empowered through slowing down,...
by Gizelle | Oct 11, 2016 | Growth/Self-Love, Self-Love/Worthiness
When you wrote about feeling so used and betrayed, I was reminded of a way I’ve moved through various thrashings I’ve experienced in the relationship world. My default used to be to examine the other person, especially tempting if their behavior is...
by Gizelle | Oct 2, 2016 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
Took a beautiful walk today out to a point that granted an almost 360 degree view of beaches and ocean, with a forest behind me. Up a gentle slope up-hill through a glade, then into the forest of trees, past an abandoned house. Then on through a canopy of trees,...
by Gizelle | Aug 27, 2016 | Conscious Living/Mindfulness, Leaps of Faith, Life in Balance
and the Universe will support you. Reminds me of the book entitled “Do What You Love, and the Money Will Follow” – although I’ve never read the book, the teaching has stuck. There have been many, many times when I ‘believed’ that lack of money blocked me from taking...
by Gizelle | Aug 20, 2016 | Being Present, Centering Practice
If we practice being in the moment, slowing down to check in with ourselves, to feel into the center of our being, then we create more opportunities where we are in touch with our true selves. For as many moments as possible, be present and ask our Selves:...
by Gizelle | Aug 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
Our thoughts, words, and identities, are all as changeable as pieces of clothing. They start from nothing but an idea, much like sewing together a shirt or a dress; you begin by choosing the pattern, purchase the material, lay it out and cut the pieces apart,...
by Gizelle | Aug 7, 2016 | Leaps of Faith, Spirit/Oneness
The sky cleared a bit this evening — a pale line of light outlining hills that haven’t been visible for almost two weeks (hell at times I haven’t even been able to see the houses across the street!). Maybe it is a sign that the fire is dampening down...
by Gizelle | Aug 6, 2016 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Shedding scarves and jackets, pants and shirts are difficult. Our ego mind tenaciously holds on to its right to exist, the part of us that remembers things, replays conversations in our mind, causes we stand for, our need to be right – – unwilling to relinquish the...
by Gizelle | Jul 30, 2016 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
Thoughts are like clothing. They often wrap around the essence of ‘who’ we are, confusing us with all the different ways in which they move. Pulling our attention from the center of our being out to all the other things we think we should be concerned with. The more...
by Gizelle | Jul 23, 2016 | Centering Practice, Inner Life
Staying in the Center may at times feel we are disconnected from our sense of self, from the world, from our purpose in Life. We may even judge ourselves as being uncaring or unsupportive of others in our Life. Yet, we become part of something unknown and unplanned,...
by Gizelle | Feb 14, 2007 | Growth/Self-Love, Self-Love/Worthiness
For many years I gave myself away, over and over and over. Despite numerous heartbreaks, grief and loss, I would replay the play (with different players). Eventually I came to a deep realization of how I have always loved ‘him’ more than myself. There was...
