Another Wow meeting, another happy few hours for all. Last night, we gathered to share a potluck dinner, catch up, meet a few new ladies, and hear Maya Rasak speak. I love to watch how my home changes when the ladies gather, one by one bringing their lovely and lively spirits into my little nest.
Maya started by asking "What is love? How do I get more? How do I keep it and not lose it?" She asked us what love feels like and the ladies replied with words like joy and peace and bliss and belonging and a natural high. Maya shared with us some of her history so that we could understand that the messages we hear as children become wounds which affect our actions as adults. Messages like "You're not good enough....you'll never amount to anything....you don't deserve to be loved...." guide the choices we make now, like when we chose partners who act like our parents and trigger these old wounds. Although this is painful, it does create the opportunity for us to recognize these old messages, declare them inaccurate, and create positive messages to guide our actions. Negativity blocks the positive and we end up perpetuating the old self-destructive scripts, waiting for the same unpleasant reaction over and over and not knowing how to rise about it.
But thoughts are energy and thoughts become habits, so we can create new positive energy by changing our thoughts. Each time an old wound is triggered, we can think differently and create new neuropathways in our brains, finally learning to live in the present. And, in doing so, we will come to know that what we are searching for, the love and joy and peace we seek, is inside of us, that we were born with this gift and can learn to live in that place now. If we continue to search for those treasures in money or possessions or other people, we will always need more. But those good feelings, the love we seek, is in us and, by casting aside old negative scripts and living a positive and conscious life, we can live in that blissful place today. In Maya's words, "true peace and unconditional love are at our core, we ARE what we seek. We are surrounded by what we seek and the thought that we can't have it keeps us from it. We are born with a loving core that is real and we will feel it when we are fully present."
Some of us are new to experiencing self-love, myself included. She gave us an exercise to show us how it feels. She asked us to close our eyes, picture someone we love deeply, and recognize how that feels and where it is in our body. She asked us to then let that picture fade away and see if we could hold onto that feeling, allowing us to feel that love for ourself. She assured us who we are is at our core and that we can access this when our mind slows down, so she urged us to take at least five minutes a day being quiet, paying attention to our breathing and our bodies, learning to know and love ourselves, the ourself we are at our core.
Most of us have heard parts of that message, that we are our thoughts, that what we believe becomes our reality, and that we can change our life by changing our thoughts, but I can't remember hearing it in such a lovely package as Maya. Down to earth, glowing, kind Maya, eagerly and freely sharing such an important message with us strangers. Thanks, Maya, for an uplifting and encouraging and thoughtful message that is sure to change our lives.
(You can reach Maya at Maya@soulintegration.biz and view her website at soulintegration.biz)
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