by Gizelle | May 6, 2018 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
I had a mentor ask me this question about 30 years ago, and I’ve never forgotten it! Of course I wanted to be RIGHT! I had to be RIGHT, my life (so my ego thought) depended on being RIGHT! I was terrified of being wrong, of making a mistake, of being found out. ...
by Gizelle | Apr 8, 2018 | Leaps of Faith, Spirit/Oneness
These words have many interpretations and can take many forms, often they are used as a rationalization or justification for actions taken or inflicted on others. Indeed such ‘convictions’ of ‘doing the Lord’s work” has been the...
by Gizelle | Feb 11, 2018 | Gratitude & Joy, Spirit/Oneness
Recently I had an experience with my newest kitty, Aurora, who has been in a very lovey mode – she can’t get enough of the cashmere sweater that I’ve been wearing on these cold days. She hops into my lap and buries her nose deep in the pit of my elbow or into my side...
by Gizelle | Jan 28, 2018 | Explore Life, Life in Balance, This Moment -- Now
At times I freak out and wonder what I’ll do without a 401K that will fully support me, especially as I grow older and grayer. But then I remind myself, people lived for thousands of years without a 401K. Fate and my Soul have conspired to put me on the road less...
by Gizelle | Dec 24, 2017 | Self Discovery, Self-Awareness
Taking the risk to be vulnerable and open, intimately, can feel like you are in free-fall — experiencing in that moment both exhilaration and terror. To risk openness is to risk the possibility of disappearing before our very own eyes. Despite our intention to...
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by Gizelle | Nov 19, 2017 | Healing Separation, Life in Balance
Remember that “Ruach” means Breath of Life/Spirit — and that Ruach surrounds your very Being, the gentle caress of the air against your skin, the breath moving in and out of your nostrils as you sit in meditation. Fall into the pool of sorrow and...
by Gizelle | Oct 15, 2017 | Following Our Heart, Growth/Self-Love
Cultivating Our Heart — is going into the deepest part of our being to find our Selves and God. Begin upon waking in the morning by focusing inward, into your very core — sense you There deep within. Anything that flows out beyond that feels unimportant,...
by Gizelle | Oct 8, 2017 | Connection, Relationships
Invite Surrender and Cross the Divide. In the practice of vigilant prayer and meditation we exhaust ourselves, saturate ourselves, strive through our efforts to release, release, release. Space appears and then disappears, sitting in hope that eventually we cross the...
by Gizelle | Oct 1, 2017 | Spirit/Oneness, Surrender or Letting Go
Often times people think that Surrender is when we’ve given up, or allowed ourselves to move from a state of struggle to a state of peace. We are trained to ‘look for’ that kind of Surrender, something that is tangible, that moves us from ‘here to there’....
by Gizelle | Sep 24, 2017 | Centering Practice, Prayer & Meditation
Cultivating Surrender is not just about the desire to give up the fight, it’s not even the desire to give up our will; nor is it a mental process of praying, praying, praying and saying ‘Thy Will Be Done” and then having a new state of awareness come forth. The...
by Gizelle | Sep 17, 2017 | Growth/Self-Love, Self-Love/Worthiness
When I’m in the ‘moment’, when I give myself up to the experience, when I choose ‘this thing to do’ or ‘that place to be’ or ‘that experience to have’, it is all I want to do. And I find that I am incredibly content with myself. It’s beyond contentment really; it is...
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 | 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...
