Tag: free

Fifty
Connection

Fifty

Healing Insights with JenLeave a comment

The book of my life
was written
and handed to me
on the day I was born

Before I knew what
language was
The story was laid before me

As I was put into
my mother’s loving,
welcoming arms
The world began anew

The days and seasons
spun and turned
without me even knowing
of their existence

“We are here for you”

Legs became stronger
First steps and fumbles
The first of many practices

I opened the door
and nature greeted me
with open arms and
a belonging

To know I was where
I was meant to be
I laid down on the grass
My senses alive

Before I could even
open the book
of my life
I was free

Sometimes
Connection

Sometimes

Healing Insights with JenLeave a comment

Sometimes I can block out
the noise, fodder and distraction
and hear that inner voice

who tries to say her lot
always calm and gently
It often disappears under the rumble.

Her voice is rooted in love
and always looking out for my wellbeing

when I stop ruminating, interrupting,
habitually filling the awkward silence,
I free the inner me

out of the cage of silence and past hurt
out of the chamber of iron and thorns
to express utter knowing and passion

when did being authentic become so scandalous?

I gather my wildest dreams
Connection

I gather my wildest dreams

Healing Insights with JenLeave a comment 
words, images, a key phrase 
catches my eye and I smile

I sit at the page 
or on the meditation cushion 

and I follow the breadcrumb trail
The path is not known

The beginning starts with a spark 
of inspiration, of intention and creativity

There is no limitation here 
just my wildest dreams stretching out to the horizon

Like a colorful, wild meadow 
unidentified, undefined 

a full expression of what it means to be free
Childhood
Connection

Childhood

Healing Insights with JenLeave a comment 
Childhood is a fleeting state
where joy, and permission to 
pretend, and be anyone we choose 
becomes our whole world 

The real takes a back seat to the imaginary 
And this is a gift bestowed to the human race 
The world is our oyster and our playground

We try on new personas like a new hat 
and we can imagine grandiose lives 
and change course on a whim

We suspend reality and just become 
the superhero, the villain, 
the dancer, the performer

Magic is real and all around us

Pure love and joy can reside there;  
sadness and angry outbursts 
feel just as powerful. 
We are consumed and carefree

To be a child in this world 
is a gift to behold

Point of Perception
abundance

Point of Perception

Healing Insights with JenLeave a comment 
Reaching into the cosmos
It is a two-way communication.
I am open and receptively aligned
So I receive with breath, with insight

The inspiring words come to me and
I am thankful

Allow my pen and my voice to be 
that conduit 
that bridge of connection.

There is power here 
and there is safety

Breath, mind and heart aligned to receive: 
The gift of words 
The gift of inspiration 
what connects us to share our story

We gather around that fire 
our tribe of elders and youth, 
parents and mending bones

Broken hearts can be healed 
with a heartfelt story
The seeker in me sees the seeker in you

And in this moment we are one
No longer separated by boundary, 
flesh and bone

Hearts and minds one 
with bated breath we see 
and believe that we can be free 

to soar, to sing, to create, 
to love and to grieve 
all parts are welcomed here

in our circle by the fire 
Join me 
there is a seat waiting

just for you

you are seen and heard, 
held and loved, 
just by being you

what a marvelous thing you are
to be just one of you in all eternity
your eyes, your hair

perhaps inherited by someone 
you never met
- the expression that makes you you -

one of a kind
smile and believe
You are free to be

“Make of yourself a light”
Connection

“Make of yourself a light”

Healing Insights with JenLeave a comment 
The darkness can be all too consuming.
Fear lurches behind every corner.
Each stone unturned, untouched
Afraid of what lies underneath.

Secrets are meant to stay that way
Buried, dark and moist.
Like fungi in the undergrowth of a dying tree,
it consumes the decayed
The fallen.
How can the light reach even here?

A darkened warm cave
What seemed like shelter and safety is now a cage
Even with its wide open mouth entrance.
Light at the end of the tunnel 
Brings hope and a promise.
It ushers us home –
a reunion of sorts – 
of what it’s like to be free.

To feel the warm rays is to 
Wrap love around me like a blanket.
There is protection and comfort here too.
Though I may recoil and try to go back.
In the safe quiet of the darkest night sky,
I reach out and feel your warmth 
Knowing I have all that I need.

Imbolc
Connection

Imbolc

Healing Insights with Jen1 Comment 
These dark days of winter 
no snow or ice 
just a grayness 
hung low from the sky.  
We all want to be free 
free from pain 
free from hurt 
thoughts, mind 
body still.

Yet I go outdoors 
Praying for the sun rays.
I won’t squint or complain
This time, I promise.
Your rays are not harsh
But a welcome home
Into your warm embrace
We all long to be.

Gray sky
Gray concrete
The houses look dim
The trees stark black.
I can see the cardinals
seeking shelter in the tree.
Where do they sleep at night?
Do they nest or hide in a stronghold
Sheltered from the cold
The gray, the unending hard ground?

The body hardens against the harsh reality 
and all I want to do is soften in that warm embrace.
Lead me by the hand
Yours warming my cold fingers
Gloves don’t keep out the cold.

I saw a glimpse of the sun 
and I went outside to seek its wisdom 
to bask in its glory 
to soak up some rays.
The biting wind greeted me.
My strong legs carried me on
Hoping my body would soon warm up.

Stride after stride
We all want to be free 
free from pain 
free from hurt 
free from isolation and a cold shoulder.

A warm smile greets me like a warm mug of tea
The whole room softens in your glow
The light of Imbolc, another of nature’s cues
The darkness is not a permanent state
The sun doesn’t always shine
It doesn’t have to rain or snow on a cold, gray day.

My emerald heart glows in your embrace
To walk upon the body of Earth.





Connection

BREATH

Healing Insights with JenLeave a comment 
The ever changing thoughts
That flow to and fro
Like the incoming tide.
Sometimes the current is strong
And I get pulled under
Stuck in thought.

Good or bad
Time ceases to exist:
My current circumstance,
The coffee beside me,
The very breath itself.
I am consumed in thought.

What I encounter 
then is a choice.
Moment to moment
I can stop the monkey mind,
the hamster wheel
and I can break free.
I can return
to the ever present
changing moment.

The breath is my anchor.
It flashes into my conscious mind
And I find a silent reverie
Befriended by my own
Groundedness and strength.
I encounter the moment
Again and again.

The thoughts change.
The steadiness of my breath changes.
The moment is ever changing.
I can choose right now
to swallow the bitter pill
of being lost
and consumed by thought.

Or I can smile
and breathe
Knowing the choice
was always mine
and I am free.