Re-embracing Stillness
‘Be still and solemn silence keep, then will God open the way for Salvation…’ (Kemetic Proverb)
It’s been a while since I’ve posted a new blog. Everything has changed since my last one. Especially me. Actually, I’m in this accelerated process of changING! I’ve been of the belief that everything is in God’s divine timing and purpose. Therefore, all is well and now is exactly when this reflection is supposed to be shared. I’ve also become convinced, during this last year especially, that humanity is in a time of transition to a higher level of consciousness and being. I don’t know what that will look like or feel like compared to what we’ve known until now, but I do believe it is a powerfully positive shift and will be a blessing to all of creation.
Meanwhile we’re being given daily, and sometimes minute by minute, opportunities to choose how we will be in the midst of it all. Will we be driven by fear and negativity or practice bringing ourselves to remembrance again and again and again, that we are spiritual beings having a human experience? The only way I know to remember this is to get still internally and meditate until we can touch the Essence within us. This is the place where we can experience the Peace and Love that is unchanged by any external circumstance. My experience is that meditation and prayer are still two of the most reliable ways to manifest change .
Of course, making and consistently taking the time for meditation and prayer is sometimes easier said than done, since distractions to going within abound -- from the grief or rage or despair that comes from listening to the news about domestic terrorism against BIPOC and LGBTQ+ women and other marginalized people, to the intentional confusion related to Covid-19, and the illness and death resulting from it, natural diasters like hurrricanes and the fires in California, to things in our personal spaces. In my space distractions include things like dogs barking outside, the neighbors talking under my window every day at exactly the same time I sit to meditate, or my husband, who I love very deeply, making the various noises he makes just because he’s a person whose voice carries through all the walls and floors. To me he’s loud, but that’s who he is and that’s who I am. Not to mention my inner distractions like codependency and control issues. Some days even getting up earlier doesn’t provide the stark external quiet I prefer for my inner work.
But one of the most helpful things thing I’ve come to understand during this time of human transition is that none of the above is a distraction unless I believe it to be so. Everything can be part of my meditation. My inner work is to be aware of whatever is going on within me and around me, accept that it is there, be with it for a moment, and allow it to flow through me. My God let me know that nothing and no one else is a reason for me to not focus within -- because the world and people and weather and dogs are not going anywhere. Even the healing of my own issues is a process. My practice is to be aware of each thing that appears as distraction or problem or threat and bless it and then release it into Divine Light and Love.
Each time we become aware of whatever is going on around us or within us, and practice blessing it and releasing it, we increase our capacity to re-embrace the sacred space of Stillness. I find myself coming back to this practice often. And that re-embracing stillness deepens my understanding of the teachings that are so important to me during this monumental shift in consciousness we humans are in the midst of right now. The teachings which are making the most sense of what is going on for me are the Seven Hermetic Laws and the Seven Principles of MAAT. I have not thrown away the spiritual teachings of my religious heritage. There are spiritual truths preserved in the Holy Books of all religions. They do not have to be discarded for the purpose of the study and understanding of other metaphysical teachings. I like to begin my reflections and study with the Seven Hermetic Laws of ancient Kemet: Mentalism, Correspondence, Vibration, Polarity, Gender, Rhythm, Causation.
These laws assist humanity to align with God and God’s Light, Love and Power.
I believe that we are all already aligned in Spirit.
Re-embracing Stillness assists us experience it.
What do you believe?
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