October 27^th, 2009

What do I want?
What do I really want?

A few clients- coaching and healing, people I can help to shift their life into what truly supports
Regular income I can rely on
Money is no longer an issue, it flows
Some sort of passive income source that aligns with the truth of who I am
Time to be
Time for the garden
Kaylee one day a week – Grandma time
Working with others to create something
Intellectual/spiritual stimulation
Juices flowing
I’m lit up
I’m juicing life!
I really believe in myself
I experience my ability to manifest
Whatever I dream flows to me effortlessly
My life is inspired and inspires others
Healing bed and breakfast retreat center
I feel good in my body- I am fit, strong and I feel supported
I  feel blessed to be me
I am living as my gift to the world
I unfold my life with grace and ease
I am in love with life

So what’s right for me now? Right now? In this moment?
Writing this, getting clear, being inspired, allowing the knowing to come forth

I am living my life from the inside out. I listen to and follow my inner knowing. I guide myself and my life from my deepest clarity, from the place that lights me up, from the inner source of joy and illumination. I live my life from my place of, from my energy of, from my inspiration.

My inspiration. I’ve been holding an outbreath. I’ve been waiting to inhale. I’ve been waiting to inspire, waiting for inspiration. Inspiration is my guide, but not some external force, my own inspiration. My in breath. MY inbreath. Breathing myself into myself. Being full of myself. Taking myself in. Inspiring myself. I have been waiting to inspire myself. To be inspired by myself. To breath myself into myself.

Inspiration. Inspiration is the place that lights me up, the inner source, my inner connection to my source, to my deepest self, to my spirit, to my breath, to my life force. Inspiration.

I take a deep breath and allow myself to be filled with my knowing, with my truth, with my light, with my clarity, with my essence. I allow myself to be fulfilled. I allow myself to be fulfilled. I am full of my self, as Abraham puts it. Filled, full, full of my spirit, my source, my breath, my life, my knowing, my light. I am full-filled with the truth of who I am, filled with the possibilities that I dream. I am filled with my ability to create whatever I dream.

I’ve been holding an outbreath, stuck on empty, having given out, given out, exhaled, expressed, waiting to inhale, waiting to receive, waiting to take in again, but not willing to take in the same old stale air, the same old patterns, the same breath that not longer fulfills me, not willing to live the same breath that gets me no farther than I’ve gotten thus far. I’ve been waiting to be inspired, but not willing to take responsibility for inspiring myself. Not willing to take responsibility for my inspiration. Not willing to live the inspiration that has already come.

What is it to be responsible for one’s inspiration? To fully take in the truth that one is, has, knows… to be full of one’s truth, to be full of one’s knowing, to be full of one’s Self. That’s a lot to take in.

And then what? We can’t stop there. An inhalation is always followed by an exhalation. What does that mean? How? What? How shall I express the fullness of my being? How shall I be this Spirit Self, this Divine Breath, this inspiration in the world? What do I create with my exhalation? How do I be this inspiration in the world? Bring this inspiration into it’s fullness in the world?

How do I take it in to the point where I can exhale and it is still the inspiration I breathed in? But it’s not the same, it’s never the same, it changes constantly. With each breath I add light to my being.

I am a writer. I’ve know that and I’ve resisted that knowing. I’ve struggled with it for years.

Now, today, in this now, I choose to inhale the truth that I am a writer. This is a part of my identity I choose to stop resisting and denying, stop struggling with, stop holding in. I inhale, I inspire this identity – I am a writer—so that I may now exhale, express, live out that identity, expressing my Self in this way that inspires me and others. I inspire myself, I breath myself in more fully each time I exhale such a full and rich expression of my truth, of my being. I choose to deprive myself no longer of this rich cycle of breath. I choose to breath now, to breath fully, inhaling and exhaling, as the poet and the writer I AM. My breath is complete.

Hi!

I am so excited to share this news! Three of us have just signed on for the advanced training in the wonderful work that has gotten us each out of defense physiology and living more fully and freely.   We have organized a Holistic Neurology Clinic here at Sacred Spiral Life Work this Saturday to share this work with as many people as we can and to raise money for our trip to Alaska for the first intensive advanced training (in two weeks!). Details below.  

Please pass this along to anyone you think might be interested. This is truly amazing work going to the root of illness, discomfort and limitation. Whatever is stopping you from living fully this work will help!

Blessings!

MariePatrice

Do you get stopped by old patterns of fear and anxiety?

Brain freeze?

Overwhelm?

Do you check out mentally?

Go numb?

Do you experience chronic pain or tension?

These are all signs that

you are in defense physiology.

The primal survival strategies of fight, flight, freeze or faint have been triggered and the body-mind has not been released from that program.

Holistic Neurology progressively releases the body from defense physiology. This frees you more and more to live in the present — alert, vibrant and energized.

It frees up resources that have been previously usurped and habitually held by unconscious defense reactions.  This simple hands-on technique goes straight to the primary cause of most illness and discomfort.  Many people experience the immediate reduction of symptoms, increased freedom, joy and relaxation.

This work is newly available in New England.

You are invited to experience the relief it brings at our

Holistic Neurology Clinic

Saturday July 12^th 1-5 pm in Stow, MA

You’ll receive a complete Holistic Neurology treatment, lasting 20-30 minutes, at a significantly reduced price of $40.  Accompanying children treated free.

What to expect: You’ll relax, fully clothed on a comfortable massage table. Your practitioner will muscle test to determine where you are holding defense patterns, treat those patterns through light touch and communication, and retest to be sure the patterns have been effectively released.

We will have several practitioners working side by side with different clients on a first come-first served basis. If you would prefer to set up a private session with a specified appointment time please call MariePatrice at 978-579-0897.

MariePatrice Masse

Sacred Spiral Life Work

A Unique Combination of Energy Work and Counseling

150 North Shore Drive

Stow MA 01775

978-579-0897

MariePatrice@SacredSpiralLifeWork.com

www.SacredSpiralLifeWork.com

Three days of pissyness, feeling off, unhappy. What’s up? Well, the surface is the same old, same old: why me? I work so hard, I am so committed to getting clear, I just had was in flow, money and clients (my greatest sticking points) were flowing easily, I joyfully paid bills. Then… boom, smack. Here we are again. What’s up with this? I’ve been doing my affirmations, my spiritual practices… Not fair! I’m tired of this.

This morning John wakes me for love-making. Fuck this. Go away. Leave me alone. How many times have I told him I hate to be woken up. Piss and moan, piss and moan. I go into the whole rant. But then something clicks. Hey, I was reading some spiritual newsletters last night about the equinox, happening in four days, and the shift it’s bringing. I really like knowing about that sort of thing, the bigger picture of what’s happening on the planet, in the cosmos. Boing!

Oh, it’s important for me to be aware of what’s going on cosmically. Oh, yeah, I’m in service. I committed to being in service a dozen years ago when I first started on my spiritual path. And I’ve gotten disconnected, or at least my conscious awareness has become disconnected, from the role I play in service to the planetary shift. Oh, that brings tears. I am in service whether I’m aware of it or not. When I shift out of my small self perspective and my focus on money and bills and my personal little life, I remember that I’m part of something bigger. That lights me up. It gives me a different perspective on the small stuff (financial survival).

My essence is deep loving connection and I’ve been stuck in smallness. When I open up to the bigger picture and be the deep loving connection I Am, I reconnect with the truth of who I am, my bigness, my mission, my purpose. Oh, ya, I’m here for a reason. Everything that’s happening is on purpose. It’s all okay. Don’t sweat the small stuff. I’m a spiritual being having a human experience. That’s actually never far from my mind, but when I get too focused on the stuff of life, I lose perspective. I remember but I don’t feel the truth of it. I disconnect from it, which “should” be a signal for me. Disconnection, red light, beeps, buzzers, alarms. I am deep loving connection. When I get disconnected, I am not being my true self! Awareness and connections come flooding in.

Oh, I’ve just started refocusing on my book “Walking the Sacred Spiral of Life” about being on a spiritual path. My healing / counseling business is called Sacred Spiral Life Work. The sacred spiral is a vortex. It’s a personal vortex which brings in higher vibrational energies and releases the lower vibrational energies (ya, the pissy energies!). I am a vortex. And a vortex disconnected from it’s purpose, well… the metaphor I get is “it’s one thing to know your job is to pump the crap out of septic tanks, and something very different when you start thinking you are the crap.” I fell into the trap (a common one!) of thinking I was the crap that I’ve been clearing.

Not so! I am the pump, I am the vortex. I am not the crap. So let me use the crap, the three days of pissyness, to get access to remembering that I am the pump. I am the vortex. What’s more, I am aware that I’m in service. It’s my job to pump crap. So why would I get caught in the expectation that it’s going to end? Okay, I may get to the bottom of one cesspool, but there’s always the next. And that’s what I’m here for. Not just to do that for myself, but for others and the planet. It’s what I do in my being. It’s what I do in my relationship. It’s what I do for the planet. That doesn’t mean all the crap needs to pass through me. But what does does. My lesson is not to believe it’s me. What’s called for is to keep clearing and aligning myself, to stay as clear as I can, so the shit can flow. What’s called for is to remember that I am in service, and as we learned during the New York city garbage strike many years ago when garbage was piling up in the streets, “sanitary engineers” are very important contributors to the health of our planet.

I am big loving arms. I am open, open, open. These are both phrases that I’ve used to describe myself and my process. Being wide open to all that is, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Being able to witness it all, to receive it all, with open arms, staying in the loving, staying open and connected to the truth that I AM unconditional love and acceptance. And yes, I do have some boundaries, which are, oh so, important, in learning to take care of ourselves and honor our own limits and needs. But I get, so clearly, that my ultimate goal is to be wide open, impervious to the ills of this world, so grounded in the truth of the love that I AM, that I can be here fully open, fully present, fully grounded as my spiritual self. I can be this for myself, for others, and for the planet.

I AM open, open, open.

I AM the big loving arms that can hold it all, make it safe to feel the boo-boos (the spiritual equivalent of Mom’s bacitracin and a bandaid, or a kiss to make it better).

I AM deep loving connection.

IAM

And so it is.

Blessed be!

MariePatrice

March 17, 2009 Happy St. Patrick’s Day!

My spiritual explorer self lept for joy at discovering “Spirit Space; A Journey Into Your Consciousness.” a new DVD movie. This movie explores the mystery of who we really are, linking science and mysticism, bridging the gap in our understanding of the amazing beings we are.  The movie features:  Fred Alan Wolf –quantum physicist featured in What the Bleep, Don Miguel Ruiz — Toltec Master and author of The Four Agreements, Edgar Mitchell — NASA  astonaut, Laurie Monroe, Linda Backman, Linda Gabriel, Skip Atwater, Eden Marie James. It explores human consciousness, the concept of souls, reincarnation, past lives and much more.

Spirit Space takes us on a great adventure exploring human consciousness, what it is and how it interacts with the world around us, the existance of the soul, ideas about what happens before and after death.  and much more. What joy it brings me to be able to share this with you!

Watch the Spirit Space Trailer or buy your own copy.

Also check out Matt Welsh’s ’s review in Spiritual Media Blog.

How many of you have ever received a negative response when you’ve expressed strong emotion? How many of you would prefer to repress strong emotion?

Most of us have learned that these are our two choices: express it and suffer the consequences or repress it? Which one you choose is probably what was modeled in your family or your reaction to what was modeled.

Let’s take a closer look at each of these.

Express it. Let it out. Yell when you’re angry. Cry when you’re hurt. Let people know what you’re feeling and how they’ve wronged you.How well does that work? What happens?

Okay, repress it. Keep it to yourself. Swallow it. Bite your tongue and don’t react.

How well does that work? What happens?

So our choices are express it and suffer the external consequences or repress it and suffer the internal

Well, we do have some alternative, less harmful ways of expressing or repress. There’s Primal Therapy and anger management. There’s journaling and role playing. These can certainly help.

In my work over the past ten years, what I have learned to do is excavate the emotion. Take a look at whatever has triggered the emotion. Feel it. Then go underneath it. What’s there? Feel it. Then go underneath it, going through the layers until you get to the core. The layers are all there built up over the core. This process releases the emotion without getting caught up in the express or repress dilemma, without damaging our relationships, without ignoring our own feelings! And what’s even more important, we get to understand ourselves better and heal that initial wound, as we peel back those layers and discover the, often, itty bitty hurt that felt so huge back then, now easy to heal because we’ve grown in our ability to handle what happens in our world.

“Namo” / I honor the wisdom of Life.

I was just introduced to the term “Namo” meaning “I bow” on SpiritPath. According to  Wikkipedia it comes from Sanskrit (the same root as “Namaste”?) and means “homage”.  Although, I had never before heard this term, I have, for some time now, embraced this concept of “bowing to” / honoring all that life brings our way, trusting that it is always what is in the highest for us, whether we recognize it as such or not.

Life is wise. It has been around a long time! Much longer than I have. So why would I be so arrogant to think that I know more or better than Life? To assume that Life has no intelligence?

The events and circumstances of our lives can be interpreted in many ways. In and of themselves, these events and circumstances are neither good nor bad, they just are. We give them positive or negative value, by how we label and interpret them, based on our attitudes and perceptions.

So, I choose, as best I can, to refrain from labeling and judging, and honor the wisdom of Life and all that it brings my way. To embrace whole-heartedly, even the challenges, for I’ve learned that Life IS on my side. Life is here for me and by me. Anything that shows up in my life if of my creation and on purpose. My challenge is to embrace it all, open to the learnings and the opportunities, allow the parts of me that are sleeping to be awakened, the parts of me that are stale to be cleaned, allow my true self to be called forth.

Namo,

MariePatrice

I just came across a new acronym for anger. Edward Mills suggests that we might start looking at ANGER as Awakening New Growth Encountering Resistance.

How many times have you heard a comment and you new it was right on, and “it made you angry” to hear it? “Yah, she’s got me pegged, and I don’t want to hear it ‘grrrr’”.Or you get really angry about something you’ve been making wrong and haven’t been able to come to grips with. 

I love this concept of looking for the new growth we’re resisting! “Oh, good. I’m angry, what new growth is available for me here?” 

Another approach to anger (or any feeling of discomfort), which I’ve been using a lot lately, comes from Arnold Patent’s work. Robert Scheinfeld has adapted this approach and calls it “The Process”.  In his excellent book Busting Loose From The Money Game he walks us through “The Process” of recognizing the discomfort as someplace we’ve hidden our power, and reclaiming our power from it. Very empowering! This book could just as well be called Busting Loose from The Human Game. His explanation of how life works is the best I’ve come across! You’ve  got to read it!

Happy New Year 2008!
Numerologically 2008 = 2+0+0+8 = 10 = 1+0=1
2008 is a 1
New beginnings 

At our annual New Year’s celebration we created a ritual to celebrate the end of 2007 and new beginnings for 2008.
Letting go of the past
We each wrote what we let go of (habits, issues, problems, thoughts, emotions…) on a slip of paper, placed them in a brass bowl and burned them. The ashes were buried in the Spiral Garden.
Calling forth the new
This act and intention of letting go, makes room for the new, which we called forth by writing our intentions for 2008 on a graffiti board on the wall. On another graffiti board we each wrote what we were thankful for in 2007. Expressing our gratitude anchors this experience more fully and increases the likelyhood of attracting more of the same in 2008.  
Blessings for a Joyful and Fulfilling 2008!

Life is constantly happening all around us. If we’re on autopilot, we react to this event, react to that comment, react to this person, to that experience, react to the thoughts it stimulates, react to the emotions it stirs up. This can feel like being the ball in a pinball game- being bounced around, out of control, shot forth from trigger to trigger, ricocheting off one obstacle after another.

Another possibility is to choose how I respond. If my friend gets upset that I didn’t call, I don’t need to react by defending myself, or get sucked into the energy of upset or guilt. I can choose my response, ask myself “Okay, how do I want to be with this? What is truly in the highest? An apology? Some boundary setting? Compassionate listening?” Let me respond in that way that is most in alignment for me.

Or I could opt out. Perhaps this is another episode of the drama queen making a big thing of nothing. In that case, it could be best to not respond, to just let it blow over, and maybe talk about it later, when the emotion subsides.

React, Respond, or Opt out. We do have a choice.

Hi! I’m passionate about personal growth, my own and others’. Doing the inner work that allows us each to show up more and more as the amazing beings we are. Using Life as a classroom and playing field for playing our best game yet. Inner work lights me up, intrigues me, inspires me. It’s what I’m here to do. (Check out my work at http://www.SacredSpiralLifeWork.com). So here’s my little ripple of inner peace, love and understanding spreading in energetic waves across the blogisphere. Thanks for adding your ripple to the conversation that frees us to show up more and more as the magnificent beings that we are!!

Blessings!

MariePatrice Masse