Chakra Meditation for a New Year

Chakra Meditation for a New Year

Jane Buyers
Thoughts on Practices

I am grounded: in my Ideals,  my daily practices, my disciplines that have become my devotions.

I am balanced: male and female, masculine and feminine, I create a strong container to hold my tenderness and vulnerability.

I am powerful: I use my power wisely. I empower myself and others; I am not overpowered by others nor do I overpower them.

I am loving: my heart is big enough to hold all of my joys and all of my sorrows, and courageous enough to travel to the tender places where my wisdom lies hidden beneath my wounds.

I am willing: I willingly let go of that which no longer serves my highest good and willingly co-create my life with the highest that I know.

I am integrated: left brain/right brain, logic and creativity, intellect and intuition—these work together to help me see the whole.

I am divine: Divinity created me, Divinity lives in me, Divinity flows through me.

PROMPT: What does it mean to write with love until the light shines through?

PROMPT: What does it mean to write with love until the light shines through?

Jane Buyers
Personal Reflections

In the case of my memoir, it means I need to approach all of my characters and situations from a standpoint of love and compassion. It also means to love the process of writing, uncovering, discovering. Love doesn’t always mean enjoy, it can mean accepting people and things as they are/where they are. How will I know the light shines through? Because the story will flow, it will be alive, it will make sense. How do I write with love? Consciously, with intention, a softening that allows me to access my heart, not just my mental memories. Perhaps as Thich Nhat Hanh says, balancing the Buddha, artist and warrior aspects of self to engage with the project….

PROMPT: Writing as an Act of Love

PROMPT: Writing as an Act of Love

Jane Buyers
Thoughts on Writing

Sometimes I like to use acrostics to help the creative process.

When I sit down to write, I
Reflect on my past and
Imagine that I might have been a different person,
That things might have gone differently
If only I had been less
Naive and
Gullible

And yet as soon as I write those words, I
See that I am being too hard on myself and am not…

Creative Non-Doing

Creative Non-Doing

Jane Buyers
Thoughts on Practices

Doing follows Being.

What does this mean? How do we learn how to be, when we are so programmed to do, do, do?

One of the most effective practices I have been taught is called creative non-doing. Essentially, taking a few moments each day to just be. To be still, silent. Nowhere to go, nothing to do. A pause. A space. An allowance….

Claiming a New Identity

Claiming a New Identity

Jane Buyers
Personal Reflections

I am a writer….

Well, not professionally.

I am a writer….

Not really, I’m a former banker writing a memoir.

I am a writer…

It’s true, I love to write and always have. I’ve written poetry, essays, papers all my life, and now scenes, dialogue and characters.

I am a writer…

PROMPT: Imagine Having Such Confidence

PROMPT: Imagine Having Such Confidence

Jane Buyers
Personal Reflections

Imagine having such confidence that we could listen to an alternative point of view without having to interrupt or correct

Imagine having such confidence that we could trust our own assessment of a situation and not wait for someone else’s validation

Imagine having such confidence that we could share our difficult feelings without harming the one causing those feelings

Three Questions

Three Questions

Jane Buyers
Thoughts on Practices

Working with our Ideals to approach our day to day activities is an ongoing practice. One way to apply our Ideals to our questions, opportunities and challenges is to use this three question model, first proposed by Hugh Lynn Cayce.

What have we here?

What does my Ideal have to say about it?

What is one thing I can do?

Progression

Progression

Jane Buyers
Personal Reflections

This way forward, say the Wise Ones, beckoning. Love that wounded child and embrace her with compassion, non judgment and forgiveness... that is how you will find your own wisdom and learn to care for the world….