From the Ocean

17 Mar 2014 2 Comments

by Camille in My Thoughts Exactly Tags: , , , , , ,

Music of the Day – K’ai – Song of the Mermaid by Lisa Dancing Light

Link – https://play.spotify.com/artist/3BkSz15mFjDJYKI6YzOhTi

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I am of the ocean – a child of Yamaya – a child of the water.  As a child of the ocean and woman of the water, I sing my song today to those women before and those after who stand in their strength.

For the ocean is movable, strong, and powerful and yet invokes tenderness and love and nurturing.  For it is of the water we are created, gestated, born and it is through water that we realize our tenderness and power.

From the ocean, we move.  From the ocean, we stretch and move into what we are to become – in our fullness, our truth, our power.  It is the waves of Momma Ocean that carry us to where we become – Our Selves.

 

Nothing to Lose

07 Feb 2014 Leave a comment

by Camille in My Thoughts Exactly Tags: , , , , , ,

Music Muse of the Day – Smooth Sailing by Queens of the Stone Age

Link to YouTube video with lyrics – http://youtu.be/A10nXyxckAE

Link to Lyrics – http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/queensofthestoneage/smoothsailing.html

Hard, raw, edgy, and ready to move forward leaving the old bonds and mindsets that get in the way of really living – not just existing in a world in which we are and act as we think we are supposed to.  That is where this is taking you, the reader, and me, the writer, today.

When I first opened my playlist, I really was not sure what would appear.  My emotions this morning are so raw and edgy.  The first song that came up spoke to me, but not in a way that I could share with my readers.  The message was one that was superficial and was the tip of the iceberg that only is seen by the naked eye and had nothing to do with what was the enormity beneath the surface.  So, I paused, took a deep breath, and dove in.

I have an affinity for the ocean – cannot swim in it, but the need to be by or close to the ocean is so strong inside of me that to think of being anywhere else puts me in a place of sadness.  Writing this, I consider what it means to me.  I have a water phobia.  I love being there, but cannot get in.  It is not what I see – it is what I cannot see – the unknown – the fear of the power behind it.

Fear of the unknown is debilitating and will keep us from going forward, even when we know that is the right action.  Fear – all encompassing and all devastating.  We sit in our comfortable little worlds built on what we were programmed to do and be wanting more – wanting to do more – wanting to be more, while we watch the world go by us – paralyzed in our own fear of the unknown and of becoming our truth.  We become that which we despise – the status quo.

Are you ready to know what Fear really is?  Read this stanza:

Fear is the hand
That pulls your strings
A useless toy
Pitiful plaything

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That’s all it is.  “A useless toy – pitiful plaything.”  There are times in our lives that we are forced to look deep inside – this is the time for me and for you, if you are reading this.  We look deep inside without fear of what we will find.  Instead, we look deep inside for where our own healing can take place.  Open – stay open!  Do not let fear pull your string any longer! And what you find, if you truly look and are ready to process, will destroy the bonds that fear has on your heart and life.

It’s all in motion
No stoppin’ now
I’ve got nothin’ to lose
And only one way up

Take the risk.  I know I am!  I know I want more!  I know that the status quo – the way “they” told me I was supposed to be – has nothing for me.  I has taken me a long time to get here, but here I am.  So, take the risk.  Take the chance.  You’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.

Beyond the Beyond

29 Jan 2014 Leave a comment

by Camille in My Thoughts Exactly Tags: , , , , , ,

Music muse of the day – Oh Great Wave by Lisa Dancing Light

Unfortunately, there is no link other than to her website so I am including it.  Lisa Dancing-Light is a beautiful spirit with an amazing voice.  This particular song is not found on YouTube or in any other video source, but it is on one of her CDs.  Here is the link – I recommend her to all of you out there.  http://lisadancinglight.com/

And now the lyrics to Oh, Great Wave:

 Oh, great wave.

Wash away, wash away my false space

Awaken from my sleep the radiant sun.

Touch me, touch me. I am once again

Beyond the beyond.

I am that I am.

Beyond the beyond!  Interesting since just the other day the music muse was Gate, Gate speaking of the very same idea.

I love the ocean, and the music starts with the ocean wave.  The sound carries me to a place deep inside that connects with Yemaya – Mother Ocean.  The core of my spirit rides the great wave without fear and with a release of longing to be reconnected with the waters of life.  For it is through the waters of life that I feel my power deep within.  The core of the ocean wave is that it flows until it hits the shore, then crashes washing away the debris back to the mother for cleansing.  There is a gentleness in the sound but such power in its force.

If I allow myself to float with the great wave of cleansing, will I become lost in its power?  Or will I come to the space of radiance and truth?  Cleansing my false space, my secret yearnings that have yet to be created and manifested, She touches me with the great wave.  I am pulled from the shore of uncertainty and carried away in Her power and force to be transported back to the Mother – Yemaya – and cleansed.  She touches me in a way that awakens me inside and awakens the radiant sun to shine on my own worthiness and my own I Am-ness.  I am carried “beyond the beyond” to a place of Being that is my radiance.  I am awakened.

I am reminded that I am a part of Her – and through that rejoining, I reclaim my own power and strength.  I now reclaim my own I Am-ness.  I stand strong and proud as a woman – beyond the beyond!