Iron Spirit Wellness

07/12/2019

The call to arms

Can you hear that young one?
That war drum in your chest?

It is beating your souls song,
Calling you to action, to arms,
Asking, praying, lamenting to you,
Take up your challenge and become great!

For the heart knows what the soul wants,
To fly like the gods we were born to become....

~Joshua

05/12/2019

The way home

Hush now young one Gaia is singing,
All may seem lost at the moment,
but that's only because you have closed your ears, your eyes and your heart.

The songlines are all around you humming,
Inviting you home to yourself,
A still mind and open senses will always be your best friend,

So take the hand that is offered and allow yourself to be lead,
Your most important journey awaits....

~Joshua

28/11/2019

The Sense

Come back to yourself young one,
Look down, then up,
Soften your body to receive the blessing,
Your eyes have the capacity to hear and your ears to see.

Soak in the landscape and taste her flavours,
All is visible to the silent, still center...

~Joshua

25/11/2019

Hush now young one the elders are speaking,
Silence the mind and open your senses,
The trees, the wind and the mountains will lead you,
Move as one like the clouds and sway,

See the patterns and enact your dance!
For here we are, Humans upon this earth,
And our mother is calling you back to yourself,

So take heart and build your courage,
For the night is calling your soul from its cave,
Exciting the hunger and ferocity,
Creating the space for your gifts to bloom....

~Joshua

03/10/2019

As I sit here under this tree, sun on my face, wind whispering hints of greatness, birds singing their tales of love, conquest and grandiosity, a triggering occurs. A bubbling forth from my subconscious such thoughts, dreams and reflections; I am thusly reminded of my favorite hafiz poem:

“Even
After
All this time
The Sun never says to the Earth,

"You owe me."

Look
What happens
With a love like that,
It lights the whole sky.”

― Hafiz

While reciting this to my mind, I spy the wind shaping the clouds ever so gently, swaying the branches of the trees to spread their pollen and strengthen their branches. It then speaks to me, letting me in on the secret to a long life of vigor and exuberance; the rhythms and flows of energetic exchange.

When violent winds come they break us, when gentle winds come they shape us, but we always grow. When dark is upon us we make us, when the dawn breaks and the sun shines we wake us, but we walk on. And when the lilt of the birds caress our ears it shakes us from our dream state, if we open our ears willingly.

All these processes, all these constant exchanges, creating and destroying, building and breaking; but always enlivening and evolving us to who we are; if we are willing to flow and utilize them, as they are; in respect and reverence, not in force or indentured servitude. For all is cosmic and sacred and that deserves the dance of equals and unconditional love.

So I invite you all to allow the wondrously magical temperaments of nature to immerse within you, to embed and trigger the wondrous nature of your soul. Allow it to pe*****te and trigger forth your unique gifts; for symbolism is the nature of our soul and subconcious, and nature is always there to trigger the awakening...

~Joshua

28/09/2019

Spectacle, what we feed our minds and souls is so important. It can elevate and transform, or dull and numb. It can act as a vehicle to propel meaningful explorations of the human condition and drive a narrative forwards, but it can also be used to overload and desensitize us, collapsing our world into one of empty gratification and pleasure.

So where are you utilizing spectacle in your life? What do you want to propel and be entertained by in this world? What or who are you allowing yourself to be lead by?

By taking this wonderful tool into yourself and using its gifts to shine your soul through, you can enhance the message of your divine purpose. And conversely, by becoming aware you can see how you are being twisted and entranced.

SO stay vigilant, watch your thoughts and consumptions both conscious and unconscious and root yourself into your soul. For once you take hold of your actual, authentic self the foundations become unshakable.

Keep diving and shedding my wondrous humans, for the universe is within waiting to get out.

In peace, Love, Light and Abundance.

Joshua

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25/09/2019

There is no need to run outside,
For better seeing,
Nor to peer from a window.
Rather, abide at the center of your being;
For the moment you leave it, the less you learn
Search your heart and see,
If he is wise who takes each turn:
The way to do is to be.

~ Lao Tzu

23/09/2019

“Directions cannot be given for achieving personal excellence, because we are all different. The gifts and potentialities of one person are not those of another. Indeed, each person is unique. His or her gifts and abilities are probably not exactly matched by anyone else on earth. And from this it follows that one person’s excellence is his or hers alone. No one can tell you how to achieve yours. Your task is simply to find the one or few things that you can excel in, and then make it your primary business in life to excel in those ways. To do otherwise, to disregard the treasures with which you are at least potentially gifted, is simply to waste your life – a path to nothingness that is, alas, only to common.”

~ Richard Taylor, Restoring Pride

This is why vision questing and ritual ceremony is so important. The ability to drive your conscious mind down into your absolute creative potential, root it into this soul dimension and then allow it to flow forth into the world is the starting momentum needed to start this processes.

Once you have this momentum and direction, the steps along the path become the fun part of the journey....

https://academyofideas.com/2014/01/creativity-and-the-pursuit-of-excellence/

21/09/2019

" Keep your face always toward the sunshine - and shadows will fall behind you"

~ Walt Whitman

16/09/2019

As once the winged energy of delight carried you over childhood's dark abysses,
now beyond your own life build the great arch of unimagined bridges

Wonders happen if we can succeed in passing through the harshest danger;
But only in a bright and purely granted achievement can we realize the wonder

To work WITH things in the indescribable relationship is not too hard for us;
the pattern grows more intricate and subtle, and being swept along is not enough.

Take your practiced powers and stretch them out untill they span the chasm between two contraditctions...For the god wants to know himself in you...

~ Rainer Maria Rilke

15/09/2019

From Martha Graham,

"There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all this time, this expression is unique. If you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and be lost, the world will not have it"

And that, to me dear readers, would be a travesty to great to bear.....

15/09/2019

No two people are alike, so no two people do a "job" the same way. Every person has the unique ability to add their mark to a craft, this is what separates lifeless repetitions from truly alive works of art.

When you produce true art you will then find that there is no competition, for anything that comes close to you is a copy.

So allow your unique soul to rise up and disseminate through your work, for no one can be better at being you than you and the world is thirsting for your unique gifts...