Resolving to Dissolve Structures of Disharmony

What is harmony?

In music, harmony is the simultaneous use of pitches(notes & tones) and chords. It is said to deal with the vertical axis rather than the horizontal. This is significant to me, for the vertical axis in life is that which connects us to the divine, is beyond time/space and is intuitive, creative, and feminine in nature. The feminine encompasses love, nurturing, compassion, kindness and empathy. 

The horizontal axis, on the other hand, represents linear time and the masculine expressions of logic, reason, organization and discipline. Within its grasp are concepts of "common sense", order/chaos and specific structure with a specific end.

With this in mind, harmony, to me, is looking more and more like the resonance of interpersonal relationships based on love, compassion, intuition, mutual inspiration and nurturing kindness. When these things are being exemplified from a number of individuals cohabiting together or spending a space of "time" together, then harmony can be experienced as a sort of Divine moment of elevated consciousness and Bliss. 

When, instead, the mind takes over and demands come into play, someone seeks to dominate the group with their particular idea or concept of "how things ought to be" - disharmony manifests. 

Often times the simplest way to dissolve structures of disharmony is to surrender to the ideas of the "others" in your midst. In this way, you allow yourself to merge with them in Oneness, and open yourself to the magic of what happens when others feel they are heard and respected. 

Structures of disharmony result from needing to come from the mind - the masculine concept of time and reason. Though these elements are, over-all, part of the bigger picture making up the whole, when over-emphasized, can and do take away from the magical, mystical forces of Love trying always to play out in every moment. Truly the question to avoid disharmony becomes "What would Love do?"

In nearly every instance it is that Love would not impose a personal will upon another...but support the life wanting to be lived in those around them...to see where it takes the ALL if this is allowed to be.

Though less and less I perceive "the end of a calendar year" as that - as I tend less toward the Gregorian counting of things and more toward the ticking of my own inner nature...it is still true that moments such as these, when an entire globe is "paying attention" to the calendar and "celebrating" a fresh start - that I too may benefit from the prevailing energies in my surroundings to lift me into new heights and ways of becoming.  And so it is at this "time" that I choose to acknowledge that perhaps my "last year" has held more disharmonies than I would care to repeat. I accept that they stem from me -and my need to control things, at least to the extent that I believe I know where I am being directed ...and when that direction is thrown off balance and out of alignment with the "Yes" roaring deep in my soul, then disharmony is felt...and something must be done to correct the origin of such influence.

I know, beyond a shadow of doubt, that throughout my life, which encompasses multiple decades, that I have experienced more harmony - even amidst what others might perceive to be disharmony - and that has always been because of the choice within my being to draw from the well-spring of harmony to which I am eternally connected.  And so, this coming year ...in the plane of reality I play in with children at my side and inspiration at my toe...I resolve to dissolve structures of disharmony...within myself and around my bodily form - by choosing to be the tone of harmony I AM at my center...and to cancel out all that would not choose to tune-in with me...

For harmony is truly a group activity. A communal effort... Have you ever noticed when you are toning with a group of people that one person may initially lead the tone and everyone else follows them to find a harmonious pitch?....but over time, all the voices go through an adjustment of sound and frequency, to which every other voice takes the opportunity to resonate with - harmoniously...in turn....no one voice dominates the session.  All pitches and inspirations of sound are taken into account. Every being is valid in their contribution to the harmony being reached for.  And so it is with group synergy.

When aligning with others...when wishing to feel alignment and participate in the aligning of the ALL....we must take into account each being's unique offering...each soul's precious gift of presence and inspiration. No One being was meant to rule all else. Life is a dance we are learning as we go...sometimes we sit out when the music doesn't fit our steps, sometimes we dance alone, and other times we twirl and swing and meld with the "other"...Harmony, no matter how you reach it, feels good - feels "right" and lends itself to evolution. Harmony cannot be reached by simply choosing not to play at all.

Yes, at times, the greatest harmony we feel must be inside our own beings. But we were not placed on this planet alone...we did not come here on a solo mission that excludes all else. That internal harmony we experience is meant to assist us in becoming adjustable, mutable, changeable, adaptive to an environment where there are many other "internal" songs at play. The master Being is one who can find harmony with every situation, not just within themselves, but with all the other players in any given setting.  This is not about compliance or accommodation, no. As we master the art of the moment, we get to tune into all the "others" and lead the symphony from within our own consciousness...as aware instruments who do not need to be acknowledged for our role in creating resonance.

As I step forward into this year, may I make myself the tuning fork of all I interact with, with every being...that harmony may be experienced, and disharmonious structures, both internal and external, may fall. Then, the new year and all of life may reach a level not yet known to you, known to me...as one more fitting to support the beings we truly are at our core...for I believe that we are gods and goddesses, remembering ourselves to be such. Let us master ourselves this year and hear harmonious symphonies everywhere we go.

Bliss in the House to you from me - ~~ Every day in every way.

Love,

Stasia Bliss

The Emotion Code...Coming on line...

Do you believe in trapped emotions? Possibly from youth or even before you were born? I always have thought this possible...in fact, in various "soul-retrieval" exercises and sessions I have met with past negative emotions and seen how forgiving and releasing them could miraculously change my reality. Likewise, in the yoga nidra practice I love so well, trapped memories, patterns and imprints, including emotional blockages, often come up for removal in order to allow for the new patterning to take effect. It is insane what these bodies are capable of, not only doing, but preventing us from doing through their ability to hold on to what does not serves us. 

We are energetic beings.

Scientists have looked at our bodies under supreme equipment only to see that we are not solid at all, but swirling energy bodies, clustering together in order to form what we see as "physical." The emotions we experience, or are triggered by our experience but not experienced at that time, can become like bundled blocks of energy preventing the full vibrational potential of our beingness from manifesting. How can we know if we have trapped emotions?

From ages 0-7 we are taking in information rapidly with no filter. The energies and emotions of those around us are unknowingly projected onto us, and in many cases, absorbed and integrated by us as PART of us, when really they are not. Before we are even born we can receive genetic codes containing the emotional blocks and imprints from our predecessors, causing us to play out their unresolved feelings in our lives without knowing or realizing the origin. In either of these circumstances, we reach adulthood often finding that we can not adequately function, interact and excel at whatever comes before us and upon the dreams we keep in our hearts.

At any stage of life we may also experience traumatic or somewhat traumatic situations which cause us to trap emotions, and even to barricade ourselves from those around us out of fear of further injury to our hearts and person. This is all done, of course, subconsciously, as our bodies are always at work to our highest good and sometimes that highest good includes protecting us from potentially damaging emotions if we are ill-equipped to handle them at the time of their arrival. 

What originally forms as a protection, over-time, when left unremoved, becomes a barrier, blocking us from the life we are wanting to live. It can block us from love, from passion, from joy and from empowerment. There is so much more about this that can be said.  Organizations such as HeartMath and the Global Coherence Initiative have made the knowledge of the heart and how our hearts emit fields of vibration for miles around, available to everyone. Through these scientific revealings we can see and experience the reality of healing that takes place when the heart is brought into conscious coherence and harmonized with love and acceptance.

Beyond this, there is a new book out called The Emotion Code by Dr. Bradley Nelson, which explains in more depth how we can trap emotions in the body and around the heart, and even more importantly, how we can learn to release these...freeing us up to have the life we really want.

What is so awesomely astonishing, even though I have known, believed in and experienced this kind of awareness before in my life many times, this technique and information - presented in The Emotion Code - is so simple and is explained in such a way that it literally intends to be a method which heralds an era of peace upon the earth as thousands begin to heal their hearts of grief and break down the walls around their hearts.  When this happens, according to his book, the hundred monkey effect will occur and the world will become full of light, hearts will open all over the planet and humankind will stop its foolishness because we will begin to feel unconditional love- and to give it freely.

In my own life, I am seeing what happens when this process begins. As the hearts open and the feelings are released, it is not initially, necessarily a pretty thing. If these blocked emotions have been held for generations, it may be very painful or "ugly" to see them released....but the effects that follow...promise to be miraculous. and so far...for me personally, a great unburdening, and for those I love...even that they are engaging the process at all makes me so excited!

I truly believe when we can let our heart-walls down (and according to Nelson 95% of us have them) the world will change, more love will be felt, we will begin more fully to see one another as family, and unkindnesses of every sort will cease.

I am moving forward with this information to learn more and certify in the training so I can both assist others in the removal of trapped emotions and heart-walls as well as write about the process, the journey and the power this will unveil.

Looking forward to sharing more as I learn more...in the meantime, look up the book & the website at www.healerslibrary.com.  

May Bliss Be in Your House today and everyday! Happy Holidays.

Stasia

Solstice New Moon Birthday Musings...

"Once you can hear beyond the words, you may remember who you really are and step forward to fulfill your mission by playing your part in this grand drama of planetary ascension that we are co-creating together." (Anna - Grandmother of Jesus by Claire Heartsong)

Today I celebrate so much. And yet, on some levels, I know it to be no different than any other day. I stayed awake much of the night, the long night, with my littlest one - who could not bare to spend the longest night of the year in slumber. No. We sat up, we played, we cried, we giggled, we wandered around, woke up daddy, tried here and there...and in the end, as the darkness lay over the scene, and I allowed him to tire a bit from the tears so we could both find a little rest, the dreamtime hovered...and both he and I found ourselves asleep once again. ...that is, until my 7 year old woke me up with the chorus of "happy birthday" just before 8am. Oh, to be a mother on a "spiritual path"....sometimes I question my perspective, my ability to "keep it together" and stay "above it all" with grace.

By the world's clocks, I have turned the wheel of time around our sun 41 times since this latest incarnation...that seems crazy, since I can remember distinctly when my father was in this time of his life. It seemed so far off. To me, especially this year, the "ages" seem to have less of an impact. Perhaps it is because I have been determined for so long for them not to affect me, to not be "ruled" by them, nor to believe so much in the "weight" of the years... Perhaps it is because I have travelled as of late, with someone who the world would say is much "younger" in years than I. . . though I have felt our kinship in perspectives in so many ways...and also our distance.

Today marks the Winter Solstice as well as a New Moon at zero degrees Capricorn. It feels important. Capricorn has the business of getting things done, though patient and long-suffering, productive to no end. I have only just begun, over the past few years, to really get to know the Capricorn aspects of my cusp birthdate...born on the teetering between signs and really, worlds...between the interest in "higher wisdom" for humanity and community, and the over-all purpose of the cosmos and all the universe. For many years, my Sagittarius nature kept me tripping all over the world and through every book and thoughtform looking for the "way" of truth and righteousness...it felt unrooted, and free - in many ways...though lacked stability and foundation. As a tree grows up, it can no longer be carried around in a pot...you must find a place to plant it, lest you stunt its growth.

And so, here I stand, riding with you on this ball around the sun, with Capricorn looming...taking us all on a new journey of leadership and "stepping into" our lives more than we ever have before.  It seems a long time coming, doesn't it? Like you and I have been talking of this time, this opportunity to "be" more, "do" more, produce, create, expand, shine...and now it seems the curtains have finally lifted, and the performance is perched to begin.

I admit that I LOVE sharing my birthday with such a cosmically significant day...like it isn't just my day alone - but everyone has a claim in it...so fitting for a girl who is determined to know the interconnectedness of us all and to realize the Unity, the Oneness we all share. I love sharing "my" day with the entire earth, the cosmos, the tipping of seasons.  

Tonight, I finish this report late in the evening...after the day is "officially" over, in terms of the clock...though I was never much for following such rules. I am happy to log the most momentous and noteworthy of events transpired this eve with my blood family gathered all in a room, working on "buried emotions" - opening up to reveal the next layer, not only for us - I feel - but for humanity.  Having recently happened on the book "The Emotion Code" and seeing my entire family take to it, with the realization that most everyone is walking around with "trapped" emotions somewhere in their bodies...an opportunity occurred for massive healing. Tonight, as we all gathered on the Winter Solstice, the new moon...many new seeds were  planted, I feel...those that said "we wish to walk forward - healthier - and more in tact"...seeds that professed the readiness of what could come next, after peeling back the layers, letting go of generational and personal baggage and asking the question of "how can I best serve - now?". What a miraculous evening.

Even the children got involved.

As I let this day slip away, entering now in closer proximity to the day many celebrate as the Christed one's birth...a new reflection begins to dawn...one that I will leave until that day. For now, I am blessed to know we are collectively moving onward and upward, that our endurance is beginning to "pay off" and there is only gold from here on out!!!

Follow the Yellow Brick Road, paved by the new light dawning...here on the other side of the winter solstice. 

Love to you - 

Bliss in the House,

Stasia

The Gifts Ever Flowing Out of the Mouth of Life....

Your eyes on this page are your gift to me today. This time of year, the idea of gift-giving seems to take on very specific meaning for many. As I have pondered time and again, perhaps the "greatest" gifts given to beings of ultimate import, such as Jesus Christ and the gifts from the Wise men of the East I am moved to ponder deeply their esoteric meaning and significance so as to reach a more full appreciation of this time of year...for me. I have thus researched, sat in silence, and happened upon some rich and delicious insights which have afforded me to create yet another gift for you this season...and really any time of the year - (as I kept it clean of linear and calendar references).

Here is the Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh Meditation - as a gift to you.

In the season of giving, I would also like to give anyone who would be willing to commit to utilizing the course I have put together on Udemy.com on Conscious Evolution - and write me a testimonial, give feedback, etc.  - I would like to give you a free coupon to enroll in the course. I will keep this offer open through the end of 2014. Just send me a message telling me you are "in" - or post in the comments...you may also message me through my Facebook Author's Page.

It is during this season that I decided to manifest into form this round, and so I am also feeling significant energy, yet again, moving through my sphere this month, possibilities presenting themselves...opportunities knocking, comings and goings...and it is with this vibration that I make the declaration to jump - even more fully into the truth of who I am, to consider and concern myself LESS with that which I do not love or resonate with, and instead, consider and concern myself MORE with that which I adore...even though I truly believe there is no "less" or "more", in the unification of the One.

You are me, I am you...as we meet and share our unique perspectives, the gift is received ONLY when we do not cancel the other perspective out, but rather, learn to absorb it, get the insight and value, and therefore make an equal "exchange"...for with each gift thoughtfully received from a perceived "other" we are becoming LARGER in our ability to be One. - Each of us. All of us.

This month and this coming year, I am intending to meet more aspects of me...more of YOU...I invite you to introduce yourself to me, to connect with me, as I will attempt to do with you. I intend to introduce my children more deeply to the world and to the "other" so that they may meet themselves and the ALLness more completely, more fully, more beautifully.

To do this, I am engaging more readily and stalwartly my passion of writing...let's just see how far we can take this thing...
Thank you for reading what I write - it means the Whole Wide World to me.

I love you,

Stasia Bliss & Family
Happy Holidays

The 13 Days of Kindness Seeds

After a deeply prophetic feeling dream last night, following the wearing of a certain prehinite bracelet my son procured during a gift party as of late, I was inspired to act today on the symbology therein.

In my dream, I was aware that I had completed a cycle, as the number 12 was shown - as children I had born(all male - in this case)...I new that the 13th was now able to come...and she was Sara -- the princess...the female manifestation...it was a seed affecting my entire reality - this was the nature of the dream.

Today, upon contemplating and realizing my birthday sat 13 days away, also remembering a certain inspiring birthday I observed in Portland earlier this year where a divine goddess sister celebrated by offering 35 random acts of kindness for her birthday...I have decided a similar wish for myself.

So  here it is -- and I ask you to join me as you feel called.

Today I begin the 13 days of my Birthday...and on each day I will perform a random act of kindness....for another, for the earth, and I ask you to join me, and make this the most wonderful birthday I have ever realized...as I see brother and sister alike - gifted in a myriad of ways.  As I know myself to be one with all that is...I am truly blessed by watching the joy of others...in this way, may all the parts of me that have remained hidden from me - come into the light of JOY.

Won't you join me?!

Here is the story of inspiration: 35-acts-of-kindness-on-her-35th-birthday

Everything from letting people in front of you in traffic to buying another's groceries...to picking up trash, to whatever you are inspired to do for another. Join me and share...and pass it on.
I wish to acquire an amazing list of stories for the random acts we have done for each other this 13 days....I will compile them as the best birthday gift on Earth.

Thank you for loving each other - and for celebrating Oneness with me in this way.
Stay tuned, as the kindness spreads from seeds to trees...
Love --
Stasia

The Attitude of Gratitude in Ascension

The day falls quietly on the other side of a national "feasting" celebration...though if I were to travel just a few miles from home or search the virtual world even just a little, I would find something less than quiet as the "pre-holiday" shoppers bustle their way through crowds and sales all in the name of giving and receiving come December the 25th. I, however, am still lingering over the cause and effect of a holiday called "Thanksgiving" and what it all means and how I can best harvest the goodness from it today and every day no matter what the calendar says.

Gratitude. This is a word and an attitude which I have felt and experienced to make more than a feast full of difference in how things show up for me, how things are processed, what my reality is and how things move forward, whether fluid or seemingly "stuck."  For Gratitude, when truly expressed and acknowledge is a game-changer. It can alter the "worst" of experiences and make them suddenly the most enlightening. It is no wonder many mystics and teachers have named gratitude to be one of the "ascension attitudes" and I totally agree.

Pain, fear, worry, anger, depression, aches and ailes all have a downward pulling momentum. They act on gravity and move one "toward the earth" in that deterioration of the physical vessel becomes an effect of such expressions if steeped in for too long.

Now, on the other hand, if these same attitudes are allowed to move through, quickly and fluidly for the sake of "shaking off the goo" so to speak, they can alternately have the result of their "opposite" in the way they would leave one. Does that make sense?  So, indulging in pain, for too long, increases gravity, pull, heaviness and ultimately deterioration of life-force and expression...BUT...if felt, acknowledged and turned over to receive the insight - pain can be enlightening and even evolutionary.  Same goes for fear, worry, and so called "negative emotions" of every kind.

Gratitude, on the other hand, in ANY stage of the game, is UP-lifting and enlightening...it is a levitating attitude, drawing and pulling one upward and toward Life, toward Health, Wisdom, Compassion, Good-will and Immortality...Because it lightens one. Gratitude is anti-gravity, anti-aging and the best cough medicine you could ever find.  We often have an easier time feeling and expressing gratitude during the smooth "easy" times than we do during the times we hurt and feel sad...though these are the times we need the levitating effects of gratitude the MOST.

You wouldn't take an anti-histamine if you weren't congested, would you? Usually not...on the other hand, it is easy and even fun to utilize the altering properties of gratitude when we are already in the flow....{not to say it isn't great and largely beneficial to have gratitude ALL the Time}...but it is doubly, triply and even exponentially more important to activate the attitude of gratitude when you are NOT feeling super...

In the quest for, or simply through the process of Ascension, as we grapple with what that means and do our best to follow methods, techniques, processes and procedures that might best support us in these times...one of the MOST important things we can do, to continue to ascend with ease and fluidity, is to have Gratitude. Truly, Ascension is a process of lifting our vibration, living on a higher plane of existence and awareness.  Life - or the Us we have known is Life - has been perhaps use to a "lower" vibe, and will invite us repeatedly to stay where we have been, to continue to inhabit the vibration that we have been at ...not to leave it and go somewhere "better" - though the change isn't always presented or experienced as better right away.  Life says "don't leave me, please stay...don't you like it here?"

Changing vibrations is often times tough and unpleasant. It is the fuzz between channels on a radio...it is the weird and uncomfortable place in-between...on the way to where we so often intend ourselves to go..  Though when the "change" starts to happen, which feels sometimes "yucky" we retreat to "comfort" -- which is the lower vibration from which we were so desperate to escape.  Initially, the retreat feels good, 'cause we know it, it is familiar to us...comfortable, in some respects... But, soon enough, we will become uncomfortable once again as our spirits yearn for something higher, something more than we are experiencing...and we know it is somewhere we want to go...though we often cannot figure out how to get there.

It seems, somehow, that when we begin to move toward that higher octave, and go through this "weird" vibrational mismatch, that we have made a wrong move...cause it feels bad   - - at first.  "How can this be right?" - we ask ourselves..."How can I be making a right move, when it feels so uncomfortable?".....Alas, we must make it through the channel change.  The more we do this, the easier it will be, the more familiar those "channel-changing" spaces will become and we will learn to ride them out with more grace.  Until then, it is a good idea to remind yourself that it doesn't necessarily feel good to move toward positive change, at first...and to commit to riding out the fluxuation, even if life is seeming to "blow up in your face" - - which it so often appears to in these spaces.

This is where it is so important to come back to Gratitude. It will help us get through the change...It has helped me so many times, to make it through a transition that seemed to suck - and instead of complaining about how sucky things felt in those times, I decided to have gratitude and look at the positive....and WOW - - that works...it really works!!  Gratitude helps us to ascend with grace...to drop the burdens of decay, dis-ease and depression.  It really does.

So...if you aren't already in the habit of daily gratitudes, I highly recommend it.  Get a Gratitude Journal or start a morning Gratitude session at home. Do gratitudes until you can't Not do them.

Plus, as just an added bonus tidbit...apparently there are acupuncture points, chakra vortexes, on the bottoms of the feet, which connect to Earth mama....and are Activated by Gratitude...to propel us Upward...to lighten the space between us and Earth.  When we have gratitude, these points swirl with energy and lift us.  When we experience the opposite, of complaint, depression, anger and sadness....AND STAY IN THEM (remember)....then these chakra points depress as well, slow, stagnate and the effect is a heavier physical experience....gravity actually has a greater effect on us...it PULLS us down...and it is really hard to come up when we feel that way.

Have you ever noticed how difficult it is to get out of a funk and when others join you in the funk it's even harder....??!  This is because the collective points now bond (where 2 or more are gathered) - - yep, this works in the negative as well as the positive. You might as well tie some bowling balls to your ankles and walk around.  So...if you hear the complaints start to flow, from one of your "lightworker" friends and you know better...but sometimes get sucked in....DON"T.  Listen, if they need you to.  Validate their Life...And then begin the gratitudes.  It's hard not to want to join in when someone hears another speak of what they are appreciative of...it's contagious. It really is.

So...during this time of increased emphasis on gratitude...notice how things begin to lighten up....notice and utilize this time of year when appreciation is HIGH and lift up...in the Attitude of Gratitude...and Ascend.

Love you all.
May Bliss Be in Your House Today (the inner and outer versions)..as it is in Mine.
Thank you for Being YOU and for Joining me here yet again.

Peace.
Kindness
Joy

Stasia

What's In a Birth-day?...

Reflection, recollection, collecting my thoughts and feelings on this day, one year forward from the day a most important event occurred in my life...and in the life of those around me.  My second son was born...Karuna Ray came into this world...not in the way I expected...not in the way I had planned, nor my body had anticipated, but come he did...as the days chill and the leaves fall to the ground I can remember vividly the moments leading up to his labor and the way it all went down... I don't think I could ever forget it.

Though I'd birthed before...there I was birthing myself again, birthing another being...for the first time...it causes me to ask the question - what is in a birth-day?

Today, it feels like such a celebration of life, of new life. Not just for Karuna, though for him definitely, but for everyone closest to him.  For his older brother, it feels especially potent, he can remember the tears last year which he shed once realizing his mother was not home and that I had indeed gone to deliver his brother.  His words in the morning were ones that will stick in my mind forever. "This is the most important day of my life!!"

And it was.

Not just for him, but again, for me too....and for Karuna's dad.

You see, on that day, the day Karuna came to us...I became a different kind of mother.  Yes, I was a mother before, but it had been easier to believe I could still have a life of my own sometimes and put the mothering thing to the side, I admit, still trying to hold onto my individuality...I was a woman AND I was a mom - of one. Yes, that was all true.  Women who have had another, and even another - more than me- can likely attest to the reality shift it is when you go from one to two.  I was really a mother - I had really, undeniably birthed again...and I was deeper in this mom thing than ever....I was in it. . . I was it...it was not going away or being watched by someone else - - I had two boys...two boys I adored and loved and I was new again. New in the eyes of being mommy.

Karuna birthed his father too...for a man is not a father until a child is born...in a way, the child births his father....and I saw it, I watched it happen.  And even though, sometimes over the course of the year it was challenging to see how that all played out for us...I see it clearly now, today, on the day of the 1st -- Christopher is a father and he loves his boy.  Karuna birthed him...

Another birth happened that day - - Tage, my oldest - - became a big brother. What a change that was and has been...what a gift to watch this little boy, who had been used to being alone, an only child, for so long - it seemed....become a big brother. He was so proud, he was so grateful and today - for his birthday, he put on slacks and a dress shirt and started setting the table for a celebration early in the morning...and though I couldn't let him stay home from school to celebrate (which he did not like too much - as he thought he should be able to -) he sees this day as one of the most important holidays of his life - - his brother was born today...and in turn, he was born a big brother.

What is in a birth- day?

Some people rave about their birthdays, needing special attention and loving gifts, some ignore it all together and pretend it isn't occurring, others fall somewhere in the middle - doing some celebrating, but not wanting to make a big deal out of it. For me, the birth of a child is more like my own birthday than the day I was born, truly.  For I remember their births and I remember what happened to my life on those days and every day since.  I was birthed, as the woman I am today, by my children.  So, to them, I am grateful...for choosing me...for coming into my life and blessing it like no one else ever could.  They are gifts beyond compare. I love them infinitely beyond any explanation or need to clarify.

My oldest, Tage and I sometimes butt head, well, a lot...but he is such a gift to me...one I wouldn't trade for anything...he is deeply in my heart...he changed my world for the better in a way I could not do for myself.  I love him.  His birth -day is my biggest day of Birth...a remembrance of when I first grew up.

My second, Karuna....he is the one who sealed our family into a unit...he is the one who came like needle and thread to a wound and bandaged us up...and he still does it every single day of his life....he is the healer, he is the heart mender, he is love and compassion in action - he is our Karuna Ray.

Today I celebrate the ability to birth myself again and again...through choice and through children. I am grateful for the miraculous power of a female body to grow another being...one who loves you beyond any boundary.  For when I feel broken or alone, it is my children who come to my side and love me so....they see me purely and whole...they know my heart because they grew next to it.

I love being a mother. It is the greatest spiritual path I have ever walked. It holds more challenges and more blessings than anything I have ever attempted. It is the purest form of meditation, it is the greatest yoga, it is the most true book and the best teacher. I love my children and the men who gave them to me...the men who have nourished them with me and the women who have been as sisters to me and aunts to them.  I love the ability we have to birth and on this day I celebrate that capacity in each being...female and male alike.

If you do not have children, you may still birth....other things such as songs, ideas, projects, crafts, ventures, etc. are all things we put our heart and soul into and nurture into maturity...and see flourish in this world if we give them our all.  I am beginning to learn that if I am divided between my "ventures" and my children of flesh, ...sometimes they both suffer.  So I am recommitting myself this day - the day I birthed again - - to my children, to my life as a mother, as a nurturer and I am trusting that by putting these two beautiful beings first in my world...all else will fall into alignment.

May this day be full of love...and may Bliss be in your house - as I invited it again and again into mine.

Stasia Bliss