Raising the Divine Feminine

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abundance, celebration, empowerment, feminine, spirituality

An Indian legend goes that when the Earth was overrun and overcome with the oppression of the Audra’s – those with evil tendencies – even the all powerful (male) trinity of creation, preservation and regeneration felt powerless. The three then decided to contribute their best strengths, and appeal to the universal force above them, to evolve a superlative, energetic being that would help restore order and righteousness to the world.

The result was the creation of Shakti – the energy of the divine feminine, which restores order, harmony and dynamic balance to the world. The arrival of this new energy, a new trinity, is celebrated over a nine day festival that is currently underway in India. I view the festival as an opportunity to reflect on all the trinity of feminine influences in my life.

Who are the ones whose creative power of navigating the next big obstacle still flows within me? Who were the ones who taught me about the power of the creative arts of singing, writing, dancing, cooking, and much more? Who are the ones that showed me, with their propensity towards giving and sharing, that prosperity grows and flows best through the channel of an open heart? I raise all of them, celebrate them.

It is perhaps time for all of us to consider contributing our best strengths, and raising the divine feminine within us. Endowed and graced with that new Shakti, what obstacle(s) couldn’t we overcome? What new wave of equitable prosperity could we send forth with our best new energies? How much new creativity could we evoke to find solutions to our current challenges?

Raising the divine feminine within, is thus, cause for celebration. I invite you to celebrate the Shakti within you – for the peace, joy and goodness that it can bring to all,

Kumud @AjmaniK

Join us, Sunday October 14 at 9amET on Twitter. We shall celebrate the best of the divine (feminine) energy of the community that is #SpiritChat. Namaste – Kumud

The energy of #autumn is a wonderful time to reflect on the divine feminine… avail a walk…

Abundance in Spirituality

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abundance, lightness, spirtuality

What can an attitude of abundance bring to our daily life? This question is perhaps best answered when we are knee deep in a lack of abundance. It is often easy for us to get into the “lack” mode when life isn’t quite going the way we expect it to. It is when we reach for the peanut-butter jar – and end up scraping the bottom – that we appreciate the abundance of the full-to-the-brimness that we had enjoyed recently. How easily we take all the wonderfully abundant ‘things’ for granted in our life, don’t we?

If we have an abundance of clean air to breathe or fresh water to drink and shower with or nourishing food to eat – we can be grateful. If we have an abundance of all three, we are perhaps in a small minority on this earth. If we have an aboundance of healthy relationships (friends, family, neighbors) or good personal health and energy levels or vocations that afford us a good standard of living, we can be grateful. If we have an abundance of all three, we are perhaps in a small minority considered super-abundant. Yet, we are often unaware of these simple abundances, aren’t we?

There is something unique about a self-awareness of abundance. It provides lightness to the heart. The more that we become aware of our simple abundances, the less we tend to focus on what we lack. The less we focus on our lack, the more our heart attracts Joy. Abundance helps us become like the flower that revels in the Joy of its own color and fragrance. It is this Joy that eventually attracts Grace. The bees come visiting, sit lightly with our lightness, and create and spread even more abundance.

It all begins by celebrating the abundance that we already have in our life right now. We can then experience lightness in our heart and soundness of mind. Lightness of heart helps make available valuable emotional energy that we can direct towards creativity. Have you ever noticed that when your heart is heavy, in emotional churn, that your productivity drops off drmatically? I know that mine does. The quicker I return my heart to abundance, the easier it is for me to get out of my own way and start walking in Joy again.

I invite you to join me in a self-test. Let us ask these questions, everyday for the next seven days. In what area(s) of my life do I feel most abundant? Did I share lack or did I share abundance with others? What actions made my heart feel light, abundant? How can I include more of abundance-creating activities in my daily routine? Let us observe our answers, and watch if our daily actions change to create more abundance for us, and those around us.

Namaste,

Kumud @AjmaniK

P.S. Join me as I host the #SpiritChat weekly chat on twitter, Sunday August 27th at 9amET/1pmUTC. We shall celebrate the small abundance(s) in our life, and share some cheer and lightness with each other.

A Butterfly Enjoys Simple Abundance…

A Conversation on Abundance – with @Simon_GB

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abundance, spirit, spiritchat

It seems like our #spiritchat conversations gravitate towards the topic of abundance around the time(s) of spring and autumn. Earlier this year, we talked about abundance at the onset of spring in the northern hemisphere. Now, here we are, in October, and autumn is in full swing, and my host for this Sunday, Simon Harvey, suggested that we talk about abundance. And I heartily agreed with him. For I left autumn in the North, to come and celebrate spring, and abundance, in the South (of Brazil) for a few days.

Simon Harvey has been a supporter of #SpiritChat since the very early days (for almost two years now), and he might have well been a part of the very first #SpiritChat conversation. So, it is with great pleasure, that I introduce you to Simon, as the host of this Sunday’s live twitter conversation on #abundance. Simon was kind enough to share a few thoughts on abundance with me, which I share with you below.

If you look closely there’s abundance everywhere. Within abundance lives raw energy. When abundance is seen it can be overpowering. Abundance can be like a London bus, seemingly rare until there it is, and now a whole lot of them. But is abundance with us all the time, does abundance live within us and is our spirit the equilibrium to abundance? What does abundance feel like, what as we see abundance arrive in harvests, leaves and a season that has become abundant in giving, can abundance teach? – Simon Harvey

If we all were to develop a feeling, an attitude of abundance, how would it impact those around us? Do give it some thought. And then, I hope you will join @Simon_GB in what promises to be a wonderful discussion on #abundance on twitter, Sunday, October 12th at 9am ET (2pm UK BST). I know that all of you who participate will come away with a new perspective on this subject.

Be well. See you soon…

Kumud

Simon Harvey is the founder of @N2PeopleSkills, loves to talk about “People Skills Development” and “Self Awareness”, and is an “Activist of Compassionate Life”.

The Spirit of Abundance

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abundance, spirichat, spiring, spirit

The last two weekly discussions in #SpiritChat have discussed the ideas of “Letting Go – Making Space for the Sacred” and “Springing to Spiritual Success”. Both these discussions have energized the community as we have incorporated the theme of a change in season (from winter to spring in the Northern Hemisphere) into the ideas of examining what is sacred to us, letting go of what isn’t sacred, creating space for the new. A sort of spiritual “spring cleaning”, if you will, which moves us forward on the path of “success” in our spiritual journey.

One characteristic that we observe in nature as spring emerges from winter is that of abundance, which happens as the earth around us renews itself, and literally springs to life. As I glance out the windows of my sunroom every morning, I slowly (but surely) see the buds emerging as signs of life on the branches of the tall willows and oak trees. The squirrels have an extra spring in their step as they dart around, excited about the change, and the abundance that it will bring to their seemingly simple lives. We all have experienced this change that spring brings with it, renewing us with hope for the future ~ the outward abundance bringing feelings of inner abundance.

However, it is very often that we, in the busy-ness of our daily lives, become inured or unmindful of this abundance that surrounds us. We are so busy trying to make a living, engaged in our “struggle”, enamored by our everyday stories, that we may lose sight of the beautiful stories that nature is unveiling every day around us. A few of us may become “hardened” over time, for we get messages like ~ “get a tougher skin”, “don’t let them see you sweat” and so on.

While some of these strategies are necessary to “survive” in the world, are they really meaningful to help us thrive spiritually? Do these messages create a “lack mentality” rather than an “abundance mentality” within us and cause our spirit to shrivel rather than expand? To take it a step further, what is the connection between abundance and prosperity? What does it take for us to let go of scarcity thought process and adopt a mindset of abundance? Where does true abundance come from?

I invite you to come and share your thoughts on abundance with the #SpiritChat community in our live, weekly chat on twitter with hashtag #SpiritChat at 9amET / 1pmGMT on Sunday March 10th.

Thank you, and I encourage you to Let Go. Think Abundance. Be well.

Kumud

Update:Here are the filtered transcripts for Qs 1 to 8 only. You may find the entire chat at full transcript version – Enjoy! Thank you to all who shared in abundance!

Ready? Q1. What area(s) of your Life feel the most abundant right now? #SpiritChat 

Q2. Where does true abundance come from? How do we cultivate it? #SpiritChat 

Q3. How can we develop abundance mentality? Why is it important? #SpiritChat 

Q4. Is there a connection between Letting Go and Abundance? #SpiritChat 

Q5. The spirit does not know a lack of abundance. Agree or disagree? #SpiritChat

Q6. How does our personal abundance affect our families and communities? #SpiritChat

Q7. What does a life of spiritual abundance look like to you? Are you living it?  #SpiritChat

Final Q8. What action(s) can we take to manifest abundance in all areas of our lives? #SpiritChat