This video was inspired by the angels who were there in my darkest hours. I was reminded me that even when all is lost, when I am broken and shattered there is still a world within me to be unfolded.

..notice

If I didn't know what you are talking about, I would think that you're crazy Angels?! Come on! (kidding)

It is really amazing to feel their presence. I feel so loved and helped and not alone. And I can see how many times they were there guiding me, lifting me back on my feet when I was down and celebrating with me when I was open and joyous.

Now I just don't even want to call 'them' anything. I feel words can never describe well these kinds of things. It could be as well just parts of me I just suddenly have a pair of wings that lift me up

They are essentially formless, shape shifting beings, so I am not surprised that you don't want to call them anything.

The mind creates an image that makes them tangible, graspable, explainable - yet they are actually boundless. This is where poetry comes in to its own. An expression from the soul, resounding a frequency that can carry us to an experience beyond the mind...

Thank-you for such a beautiful video, lovely music and a wonderful message. This, for me, is like the "it's not your fault" moment from Good Will Hunting....and I'm working on it Thank-you x

Hi rufus,

I am so pleased that you liked the 'You are Enough' video. It brought me so much joy to create.

I know Chris has posted the Good Will Hunting clip here before. It's a powerful film. The scene shows the human veil dissipating (or rather the shell being shattered), really touching the soul, allowing true healing to begin. I have the deepest respect and admiration for those who surrender into this space and break down the walls...

Lovely to read this. Angels have literally saved me from near deaths and recently I felt I was about to fall apart at the seams and without even being aware - I lifted my hands and through my third eye they came and jostled around to reach out to me. one clearly presented itself in a shapeshifting kind of way and held my hands - I honestly could feel it holding my hand. I cried and cried after. thank you angels.

although I also believe angels are formless beings, I've just remembered a line from a wonderful book called "Skellig" by David Almond: "They say that the shoulder blades are where your wings were when you were an angel," she said. "They say they're where your wings will grow again one day."

"When I think of you
it's as if each inward
breath is a sip from the
goblet of God's nectar...

Each exhale departs
To leave a strength of union
deeper and richer than the last

If, for you,
my lips were to meet the
lips of a silver flute
I'd fill the empty space
with a resounding
vibration,
charged with the life force
of holy love
an echo of my destiny to
seamlessly unite our souls...

A note, a melody
the resonance of spirit
in union
in Love
a sound
that would inspire a choir of angels
to harmonise their reply
in the depths of your heart."

Trinity Bourne

lovely!

Chris

Wow, I love that poem Trinity. That speaks loudly for me.

I wonder, can angels act through humans? For example, lets say I pray for an angel, and someone comes and helps me with loving energy. Is it possible that an angel had acted through that human?

For me I can feel their presence around but can't always let it in, and they tell me "in order to be helped, you must help yourself". It also seems though, right when I've almost lost complete control, almost completely given up, there's an intervention. Like they are not supposed to, but they do, just to get you to a point where you can help yourself.

The pulse of an angel can act through anything tangible, but would not violate free will by acting 'through' a human being. Someone may however, connect with you who has been inspired by the angelic realms (whether they are aware of that or not). This could certainly feel as if an angel is acting through a person. If someone comes forward with a 'loving energy', it would likely be the law of attraction responding to the calling within your soul.

On occassion it may also happen that an angel would be given to incarnate in human form. This is quite rare because of the limitations of human form.

It feels really powerful that you receive the message "in order to be helped, you must help yourself"...

Each of us has a 'threshold of the moment'. This depends on what layers we are breaking through, where we are at on the journey and which distortions we are resolving. An angel will feel the 'authentic threshold', and when we have gone to the edge of all we know, they would meet us there to help facilitate the integration of our new unfolding stage of beingness.

Trinity
x

How can we ask the angels for guidance without attaching ourselves to the outcome we want them to provide us with? What phrases can we use to ask for their assistance without expressing the direction we wish it to take? Any ideas would be gratefully received xxx

Thanks for clearing that up Trinity. I love talking about angels.

Rufus. One day I went walking on the beach at night, as I was having an emotional breakdown. I felt I had nowhere to turn, and nothing left to do but walk along the beach and cry. There were many angels around me (always in my darkest moments). I cried out to the angel's "please help, please" with all of my heart. I then heard a strong loud and clear voice, "you are waiting for something to happen".

Hi Rufus.

Some people ask by expressing themselves in an open way, asking for "whatever is in my best interest". It is the openess, trust and surrender to the flow of divine energy that is important.

They key is inviting help, being open to whatever the outcome is, and then trusting that whatever happens is exactly what we need.
x

Hi Trinity, thanks for that, I like the notion of being proactive enough to ask for help, but accepting enough to trust in whatever they think is best Wise words - thank-you x

Wow, what a beautiful poem, I can feel the angelic essence permeating throughout.

David
x

Dear Trinity,
I love both the poem and the video 'You are enough'!
Beautiful pictures, words and an angelic voice

For so many years I have been working on this. Accepting that I am enough. And in my head I know it, sometimes I also feel (blissful moments!), but somewhere deep in my soul there is still someone believing that I am not enough. I do not let it speak out through me, but I do feel its presence inside.
I am trying to embrace this feeling 'I am not enough', and embrace 'little kata', who somehow learnt this in this life (and maybe also before). But the pressure is still on my chest. Maybe because I am waiting for it to change...?

I am trying to accept totally that at the moment I cannot accept myself totally.
Sounds great... I think the problem is that I cannot let go the idea of changing. I have the feeling that 'I don't want to stay like this!' And this 'not accepting myself here and know as I am' doesn't let me move towards freedom.
What can I do...?
(I started to write here: I am sorry for my English - which is not perfect - and I've just caught this 'You are not enough' - mechanism working!...)

Kata, I feel the exact same way. Your English is great as you took the words not only out of my mouth but my heart as well.

I also feel like Im waiting for it to change, and I can feel the heaviness of non-acceptance.

Hi Kata and Cody, there's truth at the core of everything you feel. The key to finding inner harmony is to align with that truth and let it proactively guide your behaviours.

Kata you say... "I think the problem is that I cannot let go the idea of changing" and Cody you say... "I also feel like I'm waiting for it to change, and I can feel the heaviness of non-acceptance." I sense you're both experiencing something similar: in truly walking the path of our soul, there's acceptance of where we are currently at, BUT ALSO an inherent, authentic yearning for evolutionary growth. That is the purpose of the soul itself.

So it's entirely natural to feel an underlying aspiration for change. To deny that would be to deny who we are. So I'd say the invitation is to pro-actively engage in your evolution by applying tools and techniques that resonate with you, but all the while accepting that wherever you are at right now, is perfectly okay. Yes it's a paradox. If we can become increasingly comfortable in that by honouring both of these apparently conflicting feelings, then the evolutionary process is likely to become a great deal easier.

Chris

Thank you for sharing Kata (and Cody).

Kata wrote: "Maybe because I am waiting for it to change...?"

The thing is when we 'wait to change' we manifest a state of 'waiting'. Ironically nothing will then change.

Every moment is an opportunity to confront whatever arises for us, with absolute self honesty. Then change will happen.

The same as 'wanting to change'. It can often be an attachment that leaves us in a perpetual state of 'WANTING' (never getting anywhere).

It's a paradox because the original impulse to evolve came from the soul. We cease to evolve those aspects of ourselves that we initially yearned to, when we create an identity around them.

I have found that the impetus to change naturally wells up from my soul, when I am honest with myself about the moment (i.e. really taking ownership of my stuff in the situation).

It is incredibly powerful to accept when we CAN'T accept ourselves too (ironically). Thank you for sharing that!

By being truly honest about our experience or how we feel (i.e. acceptance), we liberate all the energy that is holding the blockage in place. It creates a powerful force for change. Our stuff only has a hold on us if we deny it. In accepting our limitations, we can transcend them.

Of course (I know that you know) we are not talking about 'blind' acceptance - but rather full ownership of all of our stuff. That is what true acceptance is about. It is not stuffing things 'under the rug' or locking them away in the cellars of our subconscious. It's about going right in there and opening up. This takes a lot of courage and willingness to face our darkness.

Your self-honesty and willingness to be vulnerable is inspiring Kata.

soul to soul
Trinity

Thanks guys.

Ironically, understanding this paradox a little bit more, I now have a bit more of a direction. Its funny how that works.

Thanks,
Cody

Thanks Chris,
the way you explained it is so clear! And true.

And thank you Trinity.
I always have the feeling that you know me very well.

This WANTING arises in me especially when I cannot fulfil my soul's natural aspiration to change. I mean when I cannot do for myself, when I have days in hurry, without having ten minutes entirely alone.
With little children this is a challenge for me to organize time for myself.
I need much more time than I actually have, but there is some development - I do it a little better than half a month ago.
I always remind myself to the title of the book by Bruno Bettelheim which is about 'The Good Enough Parent' (and not the perfect one)

one of the things I like in your approach Chris and Trin, is this continuous joggling of multiple truths, because this is so much my reality, it always has been.

maybe because of this I have developed, and for sure still am working on, the ability to distinguish between the authentic "soul voice" and the other voices that, to my experience, can be of both internal or external origin.

There is always a slight cheapness about these 'other' voices though... there are times when I miss the real thing, or do not pay attention enough, but when I do, the voice of the Soul is unique.

often it invites a more difficult road -- and this is not necessary bad or sad... but also it is no good to get attached to the idea that soul's options are always difficult because it is also my experience that the ego (the body-mind, whatever we name it) can be overcomplicating things precisely in order to cast a shadow on what otherwise could be crystal clear...

fine tuning is what is important, soul's frequencies are delicate in nature

this was all in response to the idea of how to know when it is just restlessness in accepting what is and when is it our soul's real calling for evolution...

Hey Reka,

Yes indeed... when processed and intellectualised, then more often than not, the inspiration of the soul seems to defy logic altogether.

We live in a world where explanations and logic seem to play an important role. That is something I understand logically/intellectually, but it still defies my deeper understanding. Evolution points to something beyond human logic.

When the mind is so torn between logic and the 'voice of the soul' it has to make a choice between the two. The funny thing is, at times the impulse of the soul may guide us to doing something completely logical also! The soul can flow through all things. The question is do we come from the 'logic' or do we come from the 'soul', whether our actions are logical or not?

My son tells me I have no grasp on logic whatsoever... another might tell me that I am totally logical.
How paradoxical.

Trinity
x

Dear Trinity,

Thanks for starting such a meaningful thread. I can feel the tenderness of your heart in your lovely poem. You're a beautiful person. Many of us have sort of shut down the feminine aspect of ourselves, which you seem to embody. But it seems like we're in the process of reclaiming it

I do *dream* of angels sometimes. And I've been told by two separate people (psychic /channels_) that the beings (guides or angels ?) surrounding me are beaming light. And I feel them and talk to them all the time. I do feel that the guidance is there and I'm learning to be present with it....

Thank you, sister

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiEa9iPWL-s&feature=player_embedded#!

Thanks for sharing, Reka.

As for acceptance, while reading your comments Chris, Trin and Reka, I realized that while it's often hard to accept that I am enough, I have no problem with accepting that it is okay where I am here right now. Maybe because in the latter I feel the possibility of development.

And today I experienced the angels' response to my asking for their help.
Thank you!
x

Dear Trin,
actually, what I meant was not so much logic vs. feeling but the different shades of intuition. Or how else to put it

Also, the understanding of how Opposing Consciousness (?) can "imitate" the way Benevolent Consciousness talk to us. Like in the form of synchronicities. Or to say the same thing with more emphasis on my own responsibilities: how easy it can be to miss the slight difference. I learnt that the more ahead you are on the path, the trickier these things are becoming?

It's been a quite difficult learning process for me recently to realise that sometimes what seems like "life rolling a carpet in front of you", seemingly supporting your path through synchronistic events, can also be counter-productive. Do you know what I mean?

I hope this all has been happening to "fine tune" senses to this as well, to really distinguish between what is the real thing and what is, as I said before, "JUST A LITTLE TOO CHEAP"?
with much love

Thank you for the kind words Lisa. The video is beautiful. It touched me deeply. The song is one that often makes an appearance during the Openhand courses

It brought back a beautiful memory for me too. One year I walked in the snow after returning to the UK from Hawaii. There was a great conflict in my heart as I yearned to be in warmth of the rain forest. I've never been best know for my ability to regulate my body temperature in the cold. This time my body just would not adjust to the rapid change in climate. Tears were streaming down my face as my body started to close down. I felt almost as if I was dying - shutting down, losing the will to infuse my soul into the physical experience of being human.

And then, for what seemed like an eternal moment a miracle happened.

The clouds were so thick and grey that it seemed impossible... yet the clouds parted, just enough that the sun shone through the sky-break onto me. It was dark everywhere else. It defies all laws of reason - yet it thawed me out and warmed me through, there and then! In the middle of the snow, reversing the shutting down process, some how igniting the inner angelic flame. It was more than the sun, but rather like angels, my dearest friends, where breathing the breath of life into me. A truly magical experience.

Thank you for sharing Lisa.

Soul to Soul
Trinity

On the theme of Angels in the snow. This reminded me of a poem I wrote years ago about an Angel. The Angel is of course the shapeshifting snowflake

"Hold out the palm of your hand
in innocence,
give everything...

In return
a gentle breeze sends you a solitary snowflake
white, in all its perfection.

Guided to rest in your warm open hand
it instantly turns to a solitary tear
that trickles down your arm
seeming only to vanish.

Surrendered, of all but innocence
your palm seems empty
in return...
the gentle breeze sends you the sweetest dream,
white, in all her perfection.

Guided to rest upon your warm chest
she rests
only to melt into your soul
pouring radiant light through your veins
and Love into every heart beat.

Should she melt like a snowflake upon resting by your warmth
then, empty as your open hand may appear...
surrendered of all but innocence
you truly hold the world."
Trinity

what a beautiful poem Trin! Thank you, you inspire me greatly! maybe I'll take my old pen again ?

this one below is an old one I wrote over 10 years ago
somehow I feel angels work a bit like this... helping to channel our feeling energies?
it is like a dance where there is no difference between the dancer and the dance (Yeats, if I remember correctly )?

this video too was beautiful, to me about an incessant exchange of our love-lights and energies, since in the video too: who is exactly warming who? a self-feeding circle...

Vapour love
vapour-drops of my love are out again--
awakened from their stone sleep, they drain
away on a sea of unshed tears:
towards a no-place where
we don't even dare to be.
-- all these years
why haven't they tried to flee?
or was it me?

my yearning is back again,
and i let it go, but only slow;
because i allow its warm spring rain
stay to wash away the remains
of the snow that covers
my frozen surface.
--and isn't it a divine permit?
that's what i call a real gift,
from me to you,
and back to me.

my love is free again, but lonely.
a midnight ghost wishing for only
a little more than haunting a house
of no time or space:
-- I don't see your face
in the mirrors of these rooms:
is it not for us to embrace? or
even stay for longer than it takes for
a drop of snow to melt in my hand.
what does it say?

so i listen, sitting here again, to
a promise i made to myself
so long ago: i'll always let you go...
that's been a deal, always real,
and you know.

just now, only now: here's this flood,
no light vapour, or fragile drop,
no girly ghost: rather,
it's like crystal clear blood
pouring out of my heart, uncontrolled.
it goes because it knows
(better than we) where not to stop.
and it takes me, and all that i see
behind and at upfront.
it's gone and i can only hope
it will rest with someone
who needs it more
than you or me ever--
Before.

with love
pouring

I can feel angelic energy shining out when I read the posts on this thread. It really feels like an angels place.

Reading what I read this morning brought tears to my eyes, a recognition of an energy, something that feels so familiar and profoundly beautiful, it really moved me.

I am blessed to be in the presence of such beautiful souls.

With Love
David

I feel the same, David,
I cannot find other words to express it more profoundly than you did.

'I am blessed to be in the presence of such beautiful souls.'

Kata

The Translucent Mind

"The truly Open Hand is surrendered
of everything it ever held
Empty, so that it can re-live
in each moment of a heart beat,
the untold secrets of the Divine...

The translucent mind
is entrusted
with sacred knowledge.
Empty mind knows nothing.

It knows absolutely nothing,
so that each new breath inhales a truth so powerful
that it would shatter a cluttered mind
into a thousand pieces."
Trinity Bourne

What a beautiful poem again!

Thank you, Trinity!
Yes, for me breathing is the door that opens to the space inwards.
Love,
Kata

A subject that some of the sensitive souls here may well relate to. My latest article on being an empath here...
http://www.openhandweb.org/040112_being_empath_unfolding_higher_paradigm

with Love
Trinity
x

I am sure that this video is not to everyones taste, but an expression from the deepest depths of my beingness nonetheless.
I filmed this myself and then allowed it to dance with 'The Angel Bridge'.
For those who resonate, please accept it as a gift to inspire you to find the same within yourself, with all my heart...

I don't know why, but I have tears... and it feels as if it I could myself say the same words if I knew how to.

PS: The shots are beautiful