the wake we make

If you’ve been feeling anxious and ungrounded nowadays, you are not alone.

We definitely are living in the midst of interesting times.

These shocks will feel minor as compared with the host of positive changes and new opportunities ushered in by the Revati Full Moon. If you’ve been feeling the heat since last month's eclipse, you’ll soon get some relief.

Prepare to welcome in a new era of abundance and prosperity, and ride the wave of uncertainty until you reach the next level.

This year has been full and frenzied and this last week of October we can look back and begin to see the full extent of what was uncovered, initiated, dissolved and renewed.

Happy Halloween!

Brought to us by KK Ledford, Wild Moon Wisdom Astrology

Alan Watts' Antidote to the Age of Anxiety

Wisdom on overcoming the greatest human frustration from the pioneer of Eastern philosophy in the West.

BY MARIA POPOVA

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives,” Annie Dillard wrote in her timeless reflection on presence over productivity — a timely antidote to the central anxiety of our productivity-obsessed age. Indeed, my own New Year’s resolution has been to stop measuring my days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence. But what, exactly, makes that possible?

This concept of presence is rooted in Eastern notions of mindfulness — the ability to go through life with crystalline awareness and fully inhabit our experience — largely popularized in the West by British philosopher and writer Alan Watts (January 6, 1915–November 16, 1973), who also gave us this fantastic meditation on the life of purpose. In the altogether excellent 1951 volume The Wisdom of Insecurity: A Message for an Age of Anxiety (public library), Watts argues that the root of our human frustration and daily anxiety is our tendency to live for the future, which is an abstraction.

Read the full article at https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/06/alan-watts-wisdom-of-insecurity-1/

Ascension Meditation

Try this beautiful healing technique - it's got unicorns and archangels! What's not to love, right?

Listening to the soothing lovely voice and pace is a delight in itself.

Raise your vibration to a higher level and experience inner peace, harmony and happiness. 

This video is a guided meditation that raises your vibration to the fifth dimension, which leads you on the ascension pathway. 

You will be connected to ten Archangels, who will help you open and activate your 12 chakras. 

This will bring you confidence, hope, wisdom and love. 

aging into true power

Aging Into True Power: Today being my daughter's birthday, it is also my labor of love day! 

A most apt day to celebrate how we've come a looong way, baby!

"A few years ago, I met an old woman in a remote Mayan village in the jungle of  Chiapas, Mexico. We talked a little and smiled a lot, made easy friends, and at the end I asked how old she was. . . . . I realized then that in that village where one of the most culturally isolated Mayan tribes, the Maya Lacandon, had lived for thousands of years, no one knew their age – or cared to."  

"I wondered: What would our Western lives be if we didn’t worry about how old we were, and instead simply grew older, like the moon fades with morning? And what if, in a culture like the one I was born to, women, both young and old, lived free of the oppressive notion that their beauty and worth only decrease with age?"

Read all about it at: 

The Aging Woman Syndrome, or How Women Keep Away From Their Power by Stefana Serafina 

shamanic chakras

Today's healing post comes to us from the Four Winds Society.

2016 AUG 16 THE BRIDGE TO ETERNITY

Posted in Shamanism by Dr. Alberto Villoldo 

While practitioners of yoga recognize seven chakras, my mentor, Don Antonio, taught me that we have nine. Seven of them are within the physical body, and two are outside the body. 

He called the eighth chakra the Wiracocha, which is the name of the Creator or Great Spirit (the word means sacred source). 

The eighth chakra corresponds to the Christian concept of the soul, which is personal and finite. Its source is the ninth chakra, Spirit, which is impersonal and infinite. 

We call this center a chakra for lack of a better name. In reality it is the dwelling place of Spirit – the spirit of every thing in the Universe. 

The ninth chakra is the Self that has never been born and will never die. This Self is prior to time, and it never enters the river through which time flows. 

It is prior to space and existed before the Universe manifested. This is the Self that never left the Garden of Eden. 

When this center is awakened, there is a deep, rumbling laugh that echoes over the mountains and thunders across the sky. 

the road to lasting happiness

Without realizing it, many of our thought habits get in the way of our happiness and cause us to get stuck into negative patterns of thinking. 

[W]e will look at 13 ways we can rewire our thoughts and minds into allowing ourselves to feel the happiness that we deserve, freeing us to live, love and be happy. 

We will look at how we can liberate ourselves from those thoughts and mental habits that hold us back and hold us down, we will look forward to a better, happier and more positive new us. 

Follow this advice and not only will you feel better but those around you will too, after all, only a lit candle can light other candles. 

13 Ways to be Happier 

be still & BE

This blog is all about BEing.

Reminders to recall us to the fully realized completion that we are spiritual beings having a human experience.

Offerings that bring stillness and mindfulness, leading to balance, clarity, harmony, and healing.

Because we are creative designers and artists here at East West Women, we choose to express and present these alternatives to you, our fellow seekers and beloved co-creators, in the form of visual aids and touch energy.

We are all born healers and creatives and it is our abiding intent that together we shall collaborate here for the space and place in which to manifest our individual transformation and our collective realization.

Here we bring you our own and others' inspiration, suggestions, and successes. May you share, find and actively apply what resonates with you.

Enjoy, breathe easy, and be well!