Journeying with Clare

04/05/2024

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13/03/2023

Often we can only allow the answer to come to us, when we accept the unacceptable, and when we stop looking for the solution.

14/05/2022

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“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.” - Rumi

Painting by Kazuaki Tanahashi

11/09/2021

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Blame is so seductive to our ego.

If we blame someone else for our circumstances we get to do two things:

1. Avoid shifting or changing our habits + patterns (stay safe)

2. Avoid feeling our own pain + facing parts of ourselves that we don’t want to see (stay safe)

The egos primary focus is to keep us safe.

This means keeping us in familiar patterns that we know the outcome— even if that outcome has us feeling miserable. Or suffering every day.

In order to create the life we want to live, we have to release our strong tendency to blame. This in itself is healing.

This doesn’t mean we deny that other people have deeply hurt us. Or, that events that have occurred within our lives have created coping mechanisms + reactions that live in our mind + body.

One of the most common questions I get is: “Don’t you think that teaching about family dynamics or the impact of the parent-child relationship creates parent blaming?”

My answer is: no. Unless you want it to.

There is a big difference between AWARENESS + BLAME.

Awareness holds space for acceptance.

It says: I see this. This occurred. This lives within me. I exist this way because of these events + their impact on my perspective. My nervous system carries these events.

Blame subtly gives away our power + disconnects us from the truth of who we are.

Blame says: I can’t do “x” because of you. If I didn’t experience this, I would be better. I can’t change because of this. My life is your responsibility. Who I am + how I experience life is not within my own hands.

There’s nothing wrong with blame. We all go through periods of blame + the intense emotions that come with it. It’s a stage in the grief process.

Getting stuck within blame— allowing blame to be our identity is when we can lose ourselves in the process. Healing is recovering ourselves.

What are your experiences around blame

29/08/2021

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Is the system of this world safe? Is the planet safe? Is my body safe? Wherever you fall on any of those three things, you might be very focused on feeling that the system of our world isn't safe. You might be very focused on your body and fear about illness and health, you might be very focused on the planet, the environment - but the safety triggers that we're all going through, they tend to move you off your axis into a more highly, emotionally reactive place - sometimes a place where we lose our mind and we're not thinking clearly or logically assessing things. We're so emotionally reactive. We'll hang on to the first thing that we hear and we'll jump behind it. So this is why we have to stay grounded in these times and continue to ground because none of us have a map around what it's like to be grounded in these times. Even for the most practiced people around grounding, the axis of balance has moved for them too.

22/08/2021

3rd visit (3rd week even). Although strangely enough, this time I broke up a lot of scar tissue around my ankle, or so it now seems, as it presented itself later that day and weekend as further injury pain! However it eased with treatment and time afterwards and was what my treating practitioners said needed to happen at some point.

I’ve noticed since then also, that my mobility has increased significantly and I now have tendons showing or visible in my foot. ☄️

Was it the shoes? The lead up treatment? The walking? Or just something that was ready to happen at this point in time… I guess hindsight will no doubt tell us, and moving forward.

22/08/2021

Second outing mid week. Managed to walk into a Private Tour with the Groundskeeper, simply by exchanging a smile, who then explained to me the lineage and history of the State Rose Garden. Remain open and you shall then receive ✅

22/08/2021

These are from almost 2 months ago, when I stopped by here on the way back from an appointment. It had been the first time I’d driven here on my own, in over 2 years and I wanted to try out my legwork after a few treatments to reshape my foot that had taken place.
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I always used to come back here, whenever I was in Melbourne. Before that and over many years, I would often stop by here on the way back from at 3-4am start and release the day, before going home for an early night. It’s was part of a regular routine
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It feels different now, I guess because so much has changed and I don’t take these things for granted as much, anymore. Nor do I feel I am being punished for what happened, even on a subconscious level, and can hold more compassion for myself and for this journey unfolding as it has, and is arguably still ongoing, with a few more twists and turns revealing themselves in very recent times.
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It’s made the forward momentum easier each time feeling this way now too. I got in 3 other visits like this one, before the recent lockdown, and tried to walk a little further and perhaps a little more mindful, each time. My mind is not as busy as it used to be, and perhaps all that sitting in the back garden in the lead up got me more adjusted to being quiet and “being” for awhile there too… although I have also written pages upon pages in this time too. Most of which I don’t feel called to reflect upon at this time either, but maybe one day…
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Placing my feet on the soft grass, that I initially was quite cautious walking with my feet upon, helped me wear in my new corrective shoes and the more I did it, the less I found myself looking or checking in with my feet, as often. New walking routines were being (re)formed with each forward step taken. Even my sense of pride or accomplishment is something I can’t help but note or reflect upon at this time too. It was a step in a new direction on several levels…
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27/03/2021

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My philosophy is, we don't engage in anything that isn't on some level useful to us.

And sure we can go through some really painful stuff in our life that you wouldn't wish on other people but usually when you come through it, and you start to approach the healing of it - however far you get with the healing of it - you start to see that within the pain of it or within the difficulty of it, there were also really useful lessons that will make you behave differently in the future, or make you sense differently in the future.

- From the March 2021 Energy Update

Watch the full Energy Update here: https://www.leeharrisenergy.com/march-2021-energy-update