Ayira Heart Counselling
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To truly see and be seen by another is friendship and maybe the only true desire in our hearts. I have been meditating on forgiveness this week and was happy to receive this rich description of friendship by David Whyte. The Food Connection Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network

Yvette is a counsellor of high integrity as well as a yoga instructor and Reiki master. I know this is going to be an incredible workshop to explore opening up to your bodies in new ways.

I highly recommend going to this event by the BC Borstal Association. They are leading us into a world where we understand how trauma affects us all. They are taking action with bringing awareness on the effects of trauma and how we can heal from it. They believe in supporting families and communities to heal. I hope to see you all at the PTSD Awareness Day!

Everyone is Worthy! The pain is excruciating as we walk around going about our everyday lives holding and constricting around our basic sense of unworthiness. You may look around as you ride the bus or walk by folks on the street getting to their next appointment and notice how we keep going. Our faces are sheltering the truth underneath. My experience is that when I can really feel safe and am in a place where I’m given permission, I just let myself go and it sometimes ...isn’t pretty. We live in a world where nothing is good enough. We are told that we have to be anything other than ourselveslook better, act better, achieve better. God, it’s so much work to turn away from ourselves to be accepted and loved. It’s so hard. We are all worthy, every one of us wherever we are and however we are. Acceptance and deep love is extremely healing. Try to spend a short period of time every day practicing compassion and love for yourself. See if you can find a moment in private to just feel anything that comes up for you without using your fantastic minds to stop the process. Just lay down and let your emotions wash over you just as pure emotions. You get to have your feelings, they are yours, try not to judge them as unworthy. Your body knows exactly what to dotry to trust your body to do what it needs to do so that you can be free of all that energy it takes to be worthy, to be perfect! You are already perfect just the way you are, a beautiful soul.

Love is not a dream it's a reality and is a powerful force in business as well as relationships. Martin Luther King Jr said it best.

I am so happy to share this beautiful community mindful eating experience. It is satisfying on so many levels. Hope to see you there.

To truly see and be seen by another is friendship and maybe the only true desire in our hearts. I have been meditating on forgiveness this week and was happy to receive this rich description of friendship by David Whyte. The Food Connection Planned Lifetime Advocacy Network

Is the anxiety of life affecting you? It's no wonder we're so full of anxiety in this world. Everyone's anxiety affects our own, so we're all affecting each other. This is an offering of some support to manage your anxiety. Beyond Maybe | Borstal BC | The Food Connection

Bringing healing from the therapist's couch and into people's lives... one Yelp at a time.

I think appreciation may have changed my life or my life changed and I feel more appreciation or maybe both happened. Who knows how these things go. Here's my latest blog post which was inspired on Mother's Day! http://ayiraheartcounselling.com//can-your-life-change-wit

Yvette is a counsellor of high integrity as well as a yoga instructor and Reiki master. I know this is going to be an incredible workshop to explore opening up to your bodies in new ways.

I highly recommend going to this event by the BC Borstal Association. They are leading us into a world where we understand how trauma affects us all. They are taking action with bringing awareness on the effects of trauma and how we can heal from it. They believe in supporting families and communities to heal. I hope to see you all at the PTSD Awareness Day!

What do I believe? I believe that we can do anything we want to do. I don't think that anything in this world will change until we change ourselves, until we let go of our fear and pain and open up to our hearts. I don't think that we would ever do what we do if we were connected to our hearts. We would be able to let our amazing creative selves transform this world. I don't think we can do this alone. No one man or woman or child can make this world the world we long for. We need each other and that is a very scary concept for most of us.

Everyone is Worthy! The pain is excruciating as we walk around going about our everyday lives holding and constricting around our basic sense of unworthiness. You may look around as you ride the bus or walk by folks on the street getting to their next appointment and notice how we keep going. Our faces are sheltering the truth underneath. My experience is that when I can really feel safe and am in a place where I’m given permission, I just let myself go and it sometimes ...isn’t pretty. We live in a world where nothing is good enough. We are told that we have to be anything other than ourselveslook better, act better, achieve better. God, it’s so much work to turn away from ourselves to be accepted and loved. It’s so hard. We are all worthy, every one of us wherever we are and however we are. Acceptance and deep love is extremely healing. Try to spend a short period of time every day practicing compassion and love for yourself. See if you can find a moment in private to just feel anything that comes up for you without using your fantastic minds to stop the process. Just lay down and let your emotions wash over you just as pure emotions. You get to have your feelings, they are yours, try not to judge them as unworthy. Your body knows exactly what to dotry to trust your body to do what it needs to do so that you can be free of all that energy it takes to be worthy, to be perfect! You are already perfect just the way you are, a beautiful soul.

Drown the thought in love"that's beautiful. from an interview with Irena Tweedie. This is key for me. I remember in a "Journey of Transformation" that this is exactly what happened. I seemed to be filled with love letting the pain go. The love filled me as the pain left.

Breathing in, I hold the stone of my fear; breathing out, it pulses with love and becomes a heart. Breathing in the pure light of the sun, I awaken a warmth in my chest; breathing out, I know that I am human. This is an excerpt from one of Linda L. Nardelli, Channeled Healer's poems. I love these words.

I am very very excited about what my friend and colleague Danzante Caldera is doing. He has created this masterpiece! It's a game called POSITIVITIES and it is going to become very popular because it is inspired. The game was created from Danzante's connection to supporting individuals to connect to their strengths. I have personally played this game with a few of my friends and some people I don't know and learned a lot about myself and my friends and quickly got to know people I hadn't met before. He's created this campaign to raise money for the marketing. Check it out...it's definitely worth contributing to. Just check it out there's a great video. I'm in the video too. http://tinyurl.com/positivities

http://youtu.be/5Ss1HuA1hIk I am moved beyond words by David Whyte's expression. So much of this open's me up to experiencing life and at the end I am reminded that I am not alone. That what exists is a conversation that is determined by myself and other. Awareness and connection creates. Awareness and connection creates.

http://vimeo.com/45097801 This is where my heart is. It really does say what I believe with all my heart and hope you all would feel the same so that we can really offer and receive what is important. This is only 5 mins long.

The Mindfulness Tea at VCCT I was so blessed by these women who made this tea alive and nourishing to our bodies and brought connection to each other.

I really love this review on Trauma by Peter Levine from his book, "In an Unspoken Voice" Human beings have been designed over millennia, through natural selection and social evolution, to live with and to move through extreme events and loss, and to process feelings of helplessness and terror without becoming stuck or traumatized. When we experience difficult and particularly horrible sensations and feelings, our tendency however, is to recoil and avoid them. Mentally, we ...split off or dissociate from these feelings. Physically, our bodies tighten and brace against them. Our minds go into overdrive trying to explain and make sense of these alien and bad sensations. So, we are driven to vigilantly attempt to locate their ominous source in the outside world. We believe that if we feel the sensations, they will overwhelm us forever. The fear of being consumed by these terrible feelings leads us to convince ourselves that avoiding them will make us feel better and, ultimately, safer. There are many examples of this in our lives: we may avoid a café or certain songs that remind us of a former loved one or avoid the intersection where we were rear-ended a year ago. Unfortunately, the opposite is true. When we fight against and/or hide from unpleasant or painful sensations and feelings, we generally make things worse. The more we avoid them, the greater is the power they exert upon our behavior and sense of wellbeing. What is not felt remains the same or is intensified, generating a cascade of virulent and corrosive emotions. This forces us to fortify our methods of defense, avoidance and control. This is the vicious cycle created by trauma. Abandoned feelings, in the form of blocked physical sensation, create and propel the growing shadow of our existence. Pg 181 See more

I came across this that I wrote and wanted to share: May 20, 2011 My emotions flow like water. The dreamer in me needs to dream life as magnificent as I would have it be. My breath is trapped in my belly bowels of need. My emotions need to flow through me past my toes. I know that it is in the imagination which will reach my toes. Visualization of healing flowing water from the tears of my ocean. Let it be through me that my healing begins.... I accept every moment, every moment as life. Let life awaken in me that I may help others to awaken life in themselves. Time will play with us when we are not afraid of its game. My needs are to do what I feel like doing.

Good therapy helps people to process and complete whatever hidden and unhidden wounds they have harbored. Treating a client without going deep can be like stitching up a wound without taking the bullet out; the wound is more likely to remain sore, become infected, and require ongoing attention. Noah Rubinstein

Look, It Cannot be Seen Look, it cannot be seen - it is beyond form. Listen, it cannot be heard - it is beyond sound. Grasp, it cannot be held - it is intangible.... These three are indefinable, they are one. From above it is not bright; From below it is not dark: Unbroken thread beyond description. It returns to nothingness. Form of the formless, Image of the imageless, It is called indefinable and beyond imagination. Stand before it - there is no beginning. Follow it and there is no end. Stay with the Tao, Move with the present. Knowing the ancient beginning is the essence of Tao. ~ Lao Tzu

I'm seeing all of the pain and destruction around me as a direct result of our lack of connection.

I was having trouble letting go today and remembered a poem that my mentor Maecan Campbell sent me By Thich Nhat Hahn. I felt compelled to share it with you all. Please Call Me by My True Names Don't say that I will depart tomorrow -... even today I am still arriving. Look deeply: every second I am arriving to be a bud on a Spring branch, to be a tiny bird, with still-fragile wings, learning to sing in my new nest, to be a caterpillar in the heart of a flower, to be jewel hiding itself in a stone. I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive. I am a mayfly metaphorphosing on the surface of the river. And I am the bird that swoops to swallow the mayfly. I am a frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond. And I am the grass-snake that silently feeds itself on the frog. I am the child in Uganda, all skin and bones, my legs as thin as bamboo sticks. And I am the arms merchant, selling deadly weapons to Uganda. I am the twelve-year-old girl, refugee on a small boat, who throws herself into the ocean after being raped by a sea pirate. And I am the pirate, my heart not yet capable of seeing and loving. I am a member of the politburo, with plenty of power in my hands. And I am the man who has to pay his "debt of blood" to my people dying slowly in a forced-labour camp. My joy is like Spring, so warm it makes flowers bloom all over the Earth. My pain is like a river of tears, so vast it fills the four oceans. Please call me by my true names, so I can hear all my cries and laughter at once, so I can see that my joy and pain are one. Please call me by my true names, so I can wake up and the door of my heart could be left open, the door of compassion.

"When something occurs that doesn’t fit into our operating belief system, we must reexamine our beliefs, not discard the experience. When we embrace the dissonance and confusion, we break new ground as old paradigms fall away and new worldviews emerge." Mel Schwartz

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytJ13MmgkyM

I awoke from my dream to a distinct message which was: "Of the many bountiful there is sunshine lost."

I love this: " After many years of stoic resignation following a bereavement, a dam of tears eventually breaks in a client. He gasps through his sobs, 'I'm hurting, I'm crying and I feel whole!' " Petruska Clarkson

I wanted to share with you all one of the most important lessons of my life, something I realized this last weekend when looking into the eyes of another human being. Of course with all lessons or pinnacles of lessons there is a long learning curve and this realization took a whole lifetime of risk taking, and creative play to get there. I know now that I need to let go. When I experience pain and hurt I need to let go. When I feel the love and joy I need to let go. Whe...n I am born I let go and when I die I let go. It is in the holding and constricting that I’ve caused myself discomfort and chronic pain. This last few years I’ve been practicing the art of letting go, yes of surrender to all that is present in me and my body is the wise one, the one that knows just what to do. My body lets it go in shivering and shaking, in crying and heat. My body is my soul mate aware of all that is true and alive. I cannot hold on anymore. See more