I’m so excited, I just can’t hide it! ~ the Pointer Sisters
Why? Because I have just read five different women’s words in the last 24 hours, both written directly to me or in a blog post, express their deepest passion and desire to let go and express what they know is inside, the deepest yearnings and longings of that voice that speaks from the depths. That voice that has a hold of them and won’t take no for an answer.
Why does this excite me so much?
For one thing, this is what I do, I help women who, while they both fear it and hunger for it, surrender to this voice and express it in the world. I guide them turn to listen to it, to see it, to trust it, to honor it, to let go to it, this delicious, yet insistent, voice of sacred creativity.
For another, I know, deep in my heart and belly, that this voice that won’t let go is the voice of an intelligence far greater than our thinking mind. It is an intelligence that knows everything. Each woman and man expressing this voice is bringing this greater intelligence into manifestation, into the world where we so desperately need it, into a world that is thirsting for the wisdom, the passion, the eros that is this voice.
Dig a well in the earth of this body, so that God can draw the divine water up. ~Rumi
This voice comes from the depths of the deep well inside. That place of darkness that germinates the seed we each came into the world to bring forth. It’s a seed of divine grace that can blossom forth into beauty if we stop damming the flow. It takes so much life force to hold it down, to stop it, life force that when set free shouts out in glorious song the praises of the beauty that life is.
Creation not only exists, it also discharges truth…. Wisdom requires a surrender, verging on the mystical, of a person to the glory of existence. ~Gerhard Von Rad
For another, I know this voice is the voice of truth. Not truth where telling it feels hard and heavy and a reaction to the status quo, but truth telling that is a natural flowing response from the passion and expression of the heart, because living truth is what a creative life is all about. It can feel dangerous. And it is. It’s dangerous to those other voices that are doing the damming…both inside you and outside in the world. Because the truth will set you free and those other voices don’t want that. Truth brings you into right relationship with yourself, it grows you up, it takes you from victim to creatrix.
And for yet another reason, and this is most likely the biggest, because if women are speaking this desire aloud, that means the voice inside is being heard and acknowledged. This is huge. Acknowledgment is a necessary, for it is when we acknowledge this voice that we begin our deepest relationship to it. When the ego says, “Yes, I hear you, I want to follow you, yet I’m scared, or confused, or not sure…” then it is turning within to listen, to learn to trust, to begin the process of finding the way to serve the truth that lies within.
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Think of the Pointer Sisters, women letting their voices be heard. They grew up in West Oakland, not far from where I live. They were blood sisters. Yet, we’re all sisters. Soul sisters. When we support another woman to speak up and out, to love herself, to own that powerful voice within, we heal ourselves in the process.
There isn’t a limited amount of love for women. That is an old lie of the patriarchy. There is infinite love for us all, for all of life. And we swim in a deeper, more splendid pool of love when we inspire another to let go and share her beauty in its most raw and vital power.
So this day, and everyday, make it a point to inspire another woman, to encourage her to bring her voice into existence. Notice, when you do, your own vitality and passion grow exponentially.
I hope this has inspired you to know you are not alone in this sense that it is time to bring your creative truth forth into being.
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And, You?
I’d love to hear of your experiences with inspiring women and how it has affected you.
Oh Julie….there is no time today to even try to find any words to do justice. Except for thank you.
Love to you, Renae.
It takes so much life force to hold it down, to stop it, life force that when set free shouts out in glorious song the praises of the beauty that life is.
This sentence of yours has the secret to harmonious relationships, in my opinion anyway. Letting ourselves be ourselves, which is how I interpret it, takes off such a burden and starts to banish all those pesky irritants, like guilt for example.
I’ve always been the one out there saying it, to the great discomfort of many I’m sure. Always kindly I hope, never spewing negativity, but being me. What freedom that brings. It wasn’t always so.
Dear Julie,
I discovered your blog via Susan Reep’s blog, and I felt a strong connection to visit when she described you as “She takes me to a higher plane, a more complex level of thinking. She takes the “busyness†out of life and returns me to the thinking and feeling that make a life, getting down to the core. Julie gives me the tools to savor the constant activity and value each moment.”
I connect with your words straight away, as I feel that this force that we have is universally connected, with one truth that ignites our own individual light in the world.
Being ourselfs in creation, is like enabling our own inner light to flourish and to grow.
I find that creating in the flow helps to understand what is going on both on an unconscious and conscious level, and connects us with the source of life. This source of life is who we truly are, that being just as it is.
I’m glad I followed my intuition to you, as I feel we connect on many levels.
I also hold a blog, to rekindle everyone of what they are, and hope it inspires them to truly connect with that source and be more at one with life and the earth beauty.
Have a blessed day, and enjoy whatever may come your way. 🙂
Susan, I can hear you saying it! The sentence is about what we give our life force to, whether it be to hide and stay safe or live out loud. Yes, it has a big impact on relationships. I’m so glad to know you, dear. Thank you!
Ana – It’s a pleasure to meet you. Thank you, Susan, for introducing us! It sounds like we do have so much in common. These words especially touched me: “be more at one with life and the earth beauty.” I’ll come by for a visit!
You: There isn’t a limited amount of love for women. That is an old lie of the patriarchy.
Me: down with lies – especially the old ones.
You: So this day, and everyday, make it a point to inspire another woman, to encourage her to bring her voice into existence. Notice, when you do, your own vitality and passion grow exponentially.
Me: yes, yes, a hundred bazillion times yes. a most fitting replacement for the old lies we’re allowing to become extinct.
bringing it a little closer to home . . . i am kinda’ in a tangle about my voice for the past 48. seems i don’t do anger well – no doubt, the result of a lack of practice. plus i’m noticing that when i express passion of any sort, i am told to “just calm down”. so tired of that, i could bite a nail in half. what say we put that particular phrase in that particular context on the up-for-extinction list?