SOULFRUIT INTUITION

A s you move through resistance by bringing your spirit on board, it is also important to honor your unique nature in regards to how you express yourself in the world.  As much as we are similar, we all have qualities that make us unique. As you move through resistance, spend some time reflecting and understanding who you are, and how you best function. For example, as a teacher, I know that some of my students are more introverted and reflective and others are more extroverted.  One is not better than the other, but knowing this quality allows a teacher to respond appropriately to a child's needs or when resistance or obstacles show up. A month ago, I realized that I wasn't doing much painting. I felt some resistance,  even though I wanted to paint. One weekend as my partner and I were rearranging furniture, I blurted out, I wish I could have my painting supplies and canvasses and easel downstairs - which has easier access to sinks and clean water. So I brought all my pa

The Journey One day you finally knew what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice, though the whole house began to tremble and you felt the old tug at your ankles. "Mend my life!" each voice cried. But you didn't stop. You knew what you had to do, though the wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations, though their melancholy was terrible. It was already late enough, and a wild night, and the road full of fallen branches and stones. But little by little, as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of clouds, and there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do, determined to save the only life you could save. ~ Mary Oliver S ometimes when we are confronted by resistance it is because there is a discrepancy between the mind and

This month's SoulFruit Offerings will be around the nature of resistance and how we may begin to move through resistance.   If you feel called to do so, begin by making a list of 2 or 3 things presently in your life that you are resisting.   Then, begin journaling how resistance shows up in your life – do you procrastinate by cleaning the house, watching television, reading a book, etc.   Do you at times turn to food?   Do you tend to use talking as a way of not doing something?   The possibilities are varied.   B ecome more aware of how you personally resist.  There are no right or wrong answers in this process, and no place for judgments, only expanding awareness.  

One of my favorite poems by Mary Oliver, her words elevate our everyday existence and place each one us within a world that is beautiful, rich, and ever changing. Wild Geese  You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting- over and over announcing your place In the family of things.  Mary Oliver