Be Free Linda Grace Counselling & Psychotherapy

21/11/2023

Words for our times from Bartholomew:
'To maximise the coming opportunities, you MUST understand that feeling fear or feeling the excitement of awakening lies not in what happens physically on the planet, but rather, what happens in your mind.
It is your MIND that creates your heaven and hell, using whatever outer circumstances surround you. You cannot decide what others will do, what this planet will do, whether governments will rise or fall, or whether as a species you will survive.
As a single person you have very little knowledge of what would be best for the wholeness of the planet.
But there is one thing you do know.
Your individual life, which impinges on those around you, either expands and gives the gifts of peace, humour, love, compassion and courage; or it does the opposite.
That IS under your control;
and it is YOU, moment after moment, thought after thought, action after action, who decides which world you will create.
You have tremendous opportunities to infuse your life with the gifts of consciousness, so don't let those opportunities slip past as you gaze on your future.'

12/08/2023

How kind are you to yourself?
What are the ways you love yourself up?

I like to give myself a day off .. from everything! Just do nothing in particular.. I usually end up in the garden 🌺🌿

I pay to have my washing done .. and folded! This little luxury feels so good 💃

We all like to feel valued ...
and we can give that to ourselves in simple ways.

12/03/2023

08/10/2022

Chantelle Raven is a very dear and always inspiring friend. She's also a wonderfully dynamic facilitator and I'm excited to be supporting her for this upcoming weekend retreat in Tugun (bottom end of Gold Coast).
The wisdom of Ta**ra has been a profound influence in all areas of my life, enhancing all my relationships, esp with myself!! It has also deepened the way I'm able to support others in my body-based experiential psychotherapy practice.
I can wholeheartedly recommend Raven's workshops.
Come, learn, play! You won't regret it!!

19/09/2022

I love this image. It's a great reminder that every thought that defines us limits the full expression of who and what we are. There's always so much more than the story we're telling ourselves.

Imagine floating on a calm ocean on a warm day, fully supported by the gentle rhythmic water. A huge sky holds you from above. The sun fills you with light.
Allow the 'known' of your physical form to soften, dissolve and expand into the bigger picture ... until you ARE the whole picture.

We are both - the small limited individual self AND the expanded Self. Allow the bigger picture to support and hold you in your human drama. Laughing, swimming, singing, dancing, walking in nature or doing the exercise above can all assist us.

15/09/2022

These calm friends
Abiding .....
Such solace in a forest

14/05/2022

08/04/2022

Flowers bloom
in the wreckage of our garden Thankyou for the reminder

08/04/2022

The clouds keep coming .. and going,
The huge sky is always.

23/02/2022

'To sleep, perchance to dream ...'

To dream is an invitation to awaken to unseen parts of ourselves; the unconscious currents of our lives.
Our dreaming is like a tidal flow of consciousness washing hidden treasures onto the shores of our awareness.
Dreams are often layered and speak to us in a symbolic language. They are rarely to be taken literally .. instead feeling the ENERGY of the symbols or parts of the dream is the entry point for deeper meaning.

"It's just a dream" we may say to a frightened child, yet they intuitively know it is somehow strangely real for them. This is an opportunity to engage with their inner world by bringing playfulness and curiosity to their dreamscape, for example: "That sounds scary/strange, what did (it) look like? What was it doing? I wonder what (it) really wants." And teaching them they can always say "NO" or "Go Away" to anything that's too much for them. Playacting can be fun and helpful for children and adults alike.

There are many ways to relate to our dreams and the potent symbols they contain. No dream dictionary can define the true meaning of a dream.

“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.”. – Carl Jung.

20/02/2022

It's tempting to believe that what feels good IS good, that pain or struggle, illness, loss or loneliness are somehow WRONG, something to avoid or resist. Maybe even proof that we're not worthy or are defective.

To paraphrase Buddha, pain is inevitable however suffering is optional. Suffering comes when we RESIST the pain.

This journey of life is full of pain .. as well as beauty, love, pleasure, joy, satisfaction, challenges and a multitude of opportunities for compassion, forgiveness, Self knowledge, understanding and connection.

The hardest things in my life have held great riches for me and led me on a marvellous journey of deep connection with mySelf and the great mystery that is Life.

What if NOTHING was WRONG?
What if we let go of how a life SHOULD look?

What if EVERYTHING was simply an opportunity to come back to our hearts? To have a heart for ourselves. To surrender control and trust the flow of Life.

What if we could say 'thank you' for this gift of life, even when we're hurting?

15/02/2022

15/02/2022

15/02/2022

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11/11/2018

Oh yes, so much can be revealed, acknowledged and assimilated when we allow ourselves to fully embody life's transitional times.

There is a certain death that occurs as part of the healing process, in the deepening of self-awareness, something that does not survive illumination. While it is tempting to spin out of the uncertainty and into rebirth, there is wisdom and a purity within the reorganization itself, which we cannot know if we abandon it prematurely.

The dissolution itself is initiation as it offers vision not available in the scramble to put things back together. An old part of ourselves that has accompanied us for so long, a fellow traveler is no longer permitted to continue the journey by our side. The crumbling of an old dream – my life and the way I was so sure it was going to turn out.

This prior soul-companion can be another person or it can be a member of the inner family - an image, a feeling, a lens through which we’d been seeing ourselves and others; a part of our world that has come to the end of its meaning, the end of its life.

In order to be initiated in this way, we must slow down, return into the earth and the mud and the ground, and somehow cut into the urgency to enter into the next phase while the current one is still being illuminated. To take some time to mourn the reassembling of our world, to grieve all that we will inevitably lose as we heal and awaken. To set aside what we will get, what is coming next, and attune to now.

To tend to the pieces of soul, the shards of the heart, and the fragments of the psyche that are being dissolved, to honor the role they have played, for standing by us for so long, and providing refuge during difficult and transitional times. To grieve the loss of their companionship and allow them to continue into whatever realm is next for them, permission to travel and experience new things.

To stand in awe at this process, despite the profound pain and grief, to care for all of it as we allow the mystery to reveal itself in deeper and deeper ways. To know that healing and awakening is messy, glorious, and full-spectrum… and is not only an act of creation, but one of destruction as well.

Image from Liber Novus, Jung’s Red Book