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… when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change

By Sara J. Sanderson

“The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.”

~ Carl Rogers

Another provoking quote from Team Waking The Wild over on our Instagram page. And it’s the paradox bit that’s really interesting right? Surely if you want to change aren’t you saying/feeling something isn’t right with how you are now?

What’s your understanding and experience of this?

For years I wanted to escape being me. I wanted to be a better version of myself, I wanted to see myself in the world as the Goddess and Queen I knew myself to be on the inside. I don’t recall a time ever not feeling like a Queen and yet my life has looked anything but.

I took to repeating affirmations when they were all the rage and some came to pass, and equally many others did not. It wasn’t a particularly effective way for change to happen.

What has seen the most transformation and change is the practice of allowing, inviting, welcoming all of me.

Loving myself back together, not because I’m broken and need fixing, quite the opposite. It’s been the recognition of my wholeness and that all of me is welcome and needed.

In fact the parts most hidden, turned away from, and painful (the parts I was keen to escape and not see or feel).

Those are where the Queen sits in waiting. She emerges only when I’m ready to hold that paradox of acceptance.

P.S. Coming up in 2021 there will be more ways that you can walk the path of Waking The Wild. It’s going to be an epic year of Soul, Myth & Magic if we have anything to do with it! To find out more go to:Go deeper

Meditation and devotion to the Magical Path

By Lian Brook-Tyler

The *only* reason I meditate is because I’m devoted to the Magical Path.

Me + meditation before now=Meh

And yet, one way or another, meditation is a requirement of the path I’m devoted to, so meditate I do.

Devotion can be *that* powerful, but in my view, any talk of devotion requires some small print.

The small print is this… it’s only when we’re Sovereign can we truly choose devotion, until then we’ll be compelled by fear (and fear is sneaky, it hides in many forms, including wanting approval and control).

Sovereignty can come about in many ways but almost all will require a form of shadow integration, which liberates us from being compelled by fear.

Once we’re liberated – and only then – devotion opens us up to a whole other way of being… life flows, we’re deeply guided, energy is abundant, love is everywhere.

It changes EVERYTHING.

After all, devotion has got me meditating with joy, ease and pleasure… and I didn’t believe ANYTHING could do that!

Sounds glorious, huh? But remember… Sovereignty first, always.

#devotion #sovereignty #magick #realmagic #shamanism #meditation #shadowwork #integration #devotion #loveisthelaw

Embodying the Feminine…

By Lian Brook-Tyler

For most of my life I believed that the Feminine was weak, spoilt, illogical, manipulative, selfish, inconvenient, and did I say weak?

But the more I heal and integrate my relationship to the Feminine, the more I see who I really am and where my true power lies.

Turns out it’s embodying the Feminine… and She is soft, open, fluid, sensual, receptive, wise, creative, mysterious, abundant, magnetic, changeable, emotional… and powerful beyond measure.

If that’s weak then I’ll take it in every colour.

I look back at this precious photo… me with my beloved sister and mother… and breathe in all the love that was present in that moment in a way I just couldn’t have done then.

I’m sorry, please forgive me, I thank you, I love you.

#tbt #throwbackthursday #theheroinesjourney #mothersanddaughters #divinefeminine #hooponopono #wakingthewild

Only one reason…

By Lian Brook-Tyler

It’s taken a very long time to love this woman: how she moves, how she thinks, how she speaks, how she feels, how she creates, and finally… how she looks.

There’s a bazillion different reasons *not* to love ourselves – Fear can make every one of them compelling, convincing and reasonable.

And there’s one reason to learn (though it’s really an unlearning of falsehoods) to love ourselves… it’s the only way to live freely and fully as the unique gift we came here to be.

#selflove #radicalapproval #ilovemyself #soulpath #soulwork #wakingthewild #loveisthelaw #bethegift

Who are you becoming?

By Lian Brook-Tyler

“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” – Carl Gustav Jung

For me, that privilege means becoming a vessel for the Divine Feminine, Love, Magic and Beauty to pour through into the world… even and especially when it seems unwelcome, idealistic, fantastical, impractical and as provocative as Hell (and Heaven).

Objectify me, mock me, admire me, envy me, hate me, love me… it’s *all* welcome. The invitation is to use it as Material in service of your Liberation.

So how about you?

Who are you becoming?