Be open and willing to release yourself from yourself. Often times we hold ourselves back by holding on to old parts of ourselves that need to be released or made new and whole again. We hold on to the pain, the worry, the people, the places, and the things of the past or the present that no lonher has our best potential and purpose in mind. There is a spiritual awakening that takes place when we experience these things and then show and prove how to release them as they come. On this earthly realm, it is healing to the spirit and soul not to remain stagnant and heavy with physical, mental or emotional experiences.
"In the Dagara tradition, healing comes in many different forms. There is the spiritual plane; there is the mind; there is your soul. There is the seen world and there is the unseen world." ~Sobonfu Some'
Each experience reveals a innerG(od) essence that also reveals your strength, endurance and weaknesses
to repair not to compare.
Let your old self go and catch up with your new being who seeks new experiences with understanding and acceptance.
to repair not to compare.
Let your old self go and catch up with your new being who seeks new experiences with understanding and acceptance.
To enhance this thought or message from SPIRIT... anoint your experience with an Elestial Quartz, Myrrh essential oil in a diffuser, on your temple, oil burner, and more ways as you reprogram and remind your mind with the following affirmation:
'I am a whole being reflecting my past and creating my future as I embrace my present'
Excerpt from Let Spirit Reign: An Spiritual Affirmation Guide divinely inspired and written by Oni Abeni
"In my tradition ancestors are a part of everyday life, you never exclude them, because whatever is happening in your life you know they have a part in it.
Among our rituals are individual ones that you must do in order to keep your spirit attuned or cleansed. Then there are spontaneous rituals, for when something strange happens, especially in a situation you never faced before.
You start to realize that major challenges that you have gone through in your life are initiation forms. Those initiation forms are there to help you follow the next course in life, and if you do not follow those courses something in you dies. Yet the purpose of initiation is to get those things to die so you can get the new skin on, just like a lizard. As you grow up, you shed those skins and take on something new. You don’t want to put the old skin back because it wouldn’t fit.
There is also a maintenance ritual, which is like getting an oil change for your car. If you don’t do those maintenance rituals you can’t have a successful radical ritual because there are too many fragmentations."
~Sobonfu Somé
Sobonfu Some' is a healer from the Dagara people of Burkina Faso. She has written two books, The Spirit of Intimacy (William Morrow) and Welcoming Spirit Home(New World Library).
Her quotes inserted and added in this publication are from an article, adapted from a talk she gave at the Ringing Rocks Foundation in December 2008.
Video clips of Sobonfu’s talk are on the Cultural Survival website (www.cs.org), and audio portions of this talk will also be broadcast to one million indigenous listeners in Guatemala through our community radio project.
