In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer.” Albert Camus

It is that time of the year when those of us living in the Northern hemisphere, especially where I am in New England, get to experience being in the depth of winter. If you are someone who gets deep into winter blues, here are some suggestions to turn your experience around into one of grace and ease:

• Tend to your body. Get a blood test to check your Vitamin D levels. Practice daily self-massage to move bodily fluids and prevent stagnation. Make sure you are well hydrated. Your body needs extra love and care in the long winter months.
• Everything you see is you. Pay attention to how you talk about the weather. Is there a way you can energize and lift that conversation from ‘This is such a dreadful weather’ to ‘The cold is refreshing and energizing!’?
• Know when it is not the weather but it is all about your untended to wounds from your past and present. Support your nervous system and clear, expand, and update your energy field daily. I am sharing a free one hour Chakra Bliss Healing recording to support you on your healing journey. You can download it at this link.
• Make the most of it! I love this video about the Danish concept of Hygge, aka the beauty and joy of cozy winters, enjoying real or fake fireplaces, hot drinks and taking comfort in relationships.

What are your favorite ways of being in the depth of winter with joy?

With love and light,

Damla

All you need is here. Life at any given moment brings out the best opportunity for you to see, feel, transform and release your wounds. What comes up right now as an issue in your life or in your chakra system is related to an earlier wound that is coming up to the surface to be healed.

Pay attention to what you wake up with. What keeps appearing in your life to side-track you? Is it health or relationship-related? Is it about your finances? Clearly identify what it is that is asking for and receiving your attention.

Take time to unpack it either by yourself or by the help of someone you trust. Often you have already tried to unpack, resolve, be with or get rid of it by yourself. Perhaps it is time to bring in the help of a healer. My job as a healer is to help you connect the dots and know what is asking you to be healed, and offer you vibrational support and tools to transform it with ease and grace. Just remember this: you don’t have to do it alone. It is ok to ask for and receive help.

The unpacking usually will bring up stuff. Stuff you need to look at, see, feel, hear and understand, so that it can begin to transform into an ally rather than something that bugs you or makes you feel uncomfortable or keeps you stuck.

All that is rising up to the surface is an opportunity to feel wholeness, beauty and love. The question is what will you do with it? Will you fight it, feed it, ignore it or will you make an effort to understand it, see it, feel it, and offer it love and compassion? That’s what’s between you and the transformation of rising above your conditions, conditionings and circumstances.

With love and light,

Damla

What if there is no wrong? This week I am remembering that all you can do is your best and then you learn and adjust. This way everything becomes an imperfect masterpiece.

The search for perfection gives way to the beauty of this moment, this version, this already shifting reality. By releasing the idea of arriving to an imagined destination, it is easier to arrive to the ‘right here and right now’. Right here and right now may not look like what you imagined, hoped or dreamed of but it is in its own way beautiful.

Within that beauty, it is possible to appreciate what is, without the pressure of what should be or the worry of what may be. There is no ‘what should be’ only ‘what is’. ‘What may be’ is another opportunity to release ‘what should be’ and appreciate ‘what is’ present in and around you.

What would it be like to release your judgement of this moment and appreciate all that you are and all that your life is? Start with something that is troubling you lately. What would this situation, feeling, circumstance feel like if you knew you have done no wrong or could do no wrong no matter what you do (without hurting yourself or others)? What if you could ease the burden of ‘should’s and ‘could’s and replace them with the ease of accepting all the lessons and gifts your life presents you at every moment? What if this becomes a way of life for you to stay light-hearted in everything you do and to accept and make peace with everything you are?

With love and light,

Damla