It has been coming up lot for me as I work with people these past few weeks, especially since I have started to teach my hands-on Sacred Body Prayer in my community, it's been a long time and I have really missed it! The class filled up by week three and a group of amazing newbies stepped forward into a container of deep healing with the breath, body, mind, and spirit. I’ve started off gently but I am certainly not going to dilute what I have learned over the many years of teaching this work. The mental health of our world is suffering, for many reasons, and as an INFJ I see it painted on most people's faces and in the field of their auras. It’s a challenging time in our collective and one that is demanding us to heal and change. It's asking us ALL to challenge our beliefs as the beliefs we have all held have led us to arrive here, now, in this experience. So what would be the harm in challenging them and invoking change … ?  We can't continue to point the finger outside of ourselves where does that take us?

What I still see in bodies when I work with them ( and in the psyche when I am online in sessions) is repression, deep, deep ancestral, societal, cultural, and individual repression. Emotions, feelings, thoughts, words, behaviors, beliefs, ideologies, I could go on and on are repressed. Our upbringings have taught us to stay quiet, hold back our emotions, don’t challenge ourselves, and be like everyone else that we are so tightly zipped that we either explode, implode or fade away.

I see the fading away in the eyes of many, like their soul just no longer can be in a container of such rigidity that it gets ill, mentally, physically, and spiritually.

I am grateful for my spiritual work, the power and unfolding of womb work and sacred sexuality, the magic and mystery of Druid work, and the inquiry into the psychospiritual in my Jungian work and I like everyone gets bogged down with life’s challenges, hopelessness, and repression, yet these things pull me out, give my soul a thread to pull itself out of the container I imprison it in and allow me to explore the world in the magic and mystery it is. I want that to be contagious, I want that to spill into my Teachings.  I am in awe of the wondrous beings who sit on that mat in my class open to whatever comes, ready to ball their eyes out or rage with anger. To see the power of their own energy fields amplify as they are reminded that their body is a powerful tool for their own healing and that they can overcome anything should their will be strong enough.

Last week I worked with a beautiful new mother whose mastitis was so bad that she had an open wound in her breast that wasn’t healing. We worked in a session to uncover the real emotional root of it and there sat the gulley of guilt .. she went there, we worked into it , opening it up, allowing it to be free and spoken from her lips, and then on with the healing balm she already contained within her and applied it as per my recommendation. This week, we met again for a session, the wound has closed and healing has happened. She did that, she had the power in her all along to release repression and bring forth the new. I stared into her glittery eyes as she fed her newborn this week in awe of her potent medicine.

Everything can be changed, everything can be healed, we just have to want to go there. I believe emotion is the sign that you are moving the wound, I believe that emotions are the freedom we are all looking for, the release we long for and they allow us to be free from the repression, to no longer live from that place of stagnant emotion on top of a hidden wound.  There are no codes that can do this, no downloads, no quick fixes, and certainly no bypassing.. we have to go there, to the wound, open it up release the emotion and the trauma and then apply the magic healing.  

Freedom is the opposite of repression, repression makes us dull, and dullness is the opposite of Magic. So let's be FREE and MAGIC!

Collette