July 17, 2018. By Anne Bachop
Recently I’ve been more aware of small transitions. Transitions between one task and another; between taking care of another and taking care of myself; between doing something that is my ‘responsibility’ and something that is my ‘passion’. I have discovered that I carry a fear that I will not get the space or time that I need for my Self. This leads to a transition that is rough and often blocked and unproductive.
While talking with my BIP I became aware that in going from one undertaking to another I create a separation—this is me doing something for the other; this is me doing something for me. There was my ‘aha’ moment. Duality exists not only in good or bad, black or white, it also can exist in my intention or purpose. There is no separation between the me that lives for you, and the me that lives for me. Public or private I exist as one, and there is no need to hide or hold on to. I spoke about achieving a more effortless transition before a client comes, and my BIP suggested I use something similar with other tasks as well. She suggested a chant or mantra to carry a vibration of essence through the transition time.
The next day, as I was looking for inspiration from Barbara’s Seeds of the Spirit, I found Heyoan’s “Creating a Personal Mantra”:
“Once you have recognized a negative voice, you can also create a mantra to help heal yourself of it. You may already have mantras that work very well for you. There is another mantra that we have in mind. It is a mantra that recites one of your core qualities so that you can begin to really know, feel, see, hear and directly experience your core quality.
We would like to give you this assignment before you leave this week: find one core quality that you can use as a mantra. Whatever that core quality is, condense it to one word. Your core quality will help the core light expand throughout your intention, your purpose and your auric field as it moves up through the dimensions, through the physical. By using it as a mantra, that core quality will bring you into a more centered place while you are recognizing and naming your negative internalized voice. And now, feel, see, hear, smell, touch, know a core quality within you by focusing into the center of your core essence, the center of your core star, which is between the third and the fourth chakras. Find your core light. Spiral into it. Let it radiate out spherically.
Now focus into the center of every chakra, the very center where the tips come together, and find the core essence. Once having done that, find how the core essence upwells within every chakra center. Now find the core essence in every cell of your body, in every cell of your being. Give yourself plenty of time and accept however much of this meditation is possible for you. Let go of any self-judgments that you may have.
By using your core quality mantra you will find this core light upwelling into every cell of your body. It may very well happen at the same time that you hear the negative self-judgement. You will notice that the more you move into core essence, your label or name for your negative inner voice will transform.
Now, in this state of meditation, find one of your most habitual negative inner voices. Give it a name while still holding the core essence. Good. Find your core mantra. If you can’t, just experience both the negative voice and the core essence at the same time. Focus on both. Utilize these experiences to bring yourself into wholeness.” (Barbara Brennan, Seeds of the Spirit, 2005)