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How will you celebrate yourself?

By Lian Brook-Tyler

“How will you celebrate yourself?”

That’s one of the things I regularly say to our clients.

I’m asking how they’ll celebrate an expansion in their being, reaching a milestone in their business, or taking especially challenging aligned action.

Because a hallmark of sovereignty is celebrating life lived in alignment with soul.

My recommendations include dancing naked around the garden, buying some beautiful clothes or jewellery (I can recommend @dayajewelry for gorgeous, ethical jewellery), drinking champagne, or investing in a special item or experience that they’ve been eyeing up for a while.

(Or best of all, all of the above!)

Today, I’m celebrating a couple of business milestones by drinking a glass of pink fizz in the garden, overlooking the fields.

At least one more treat will follow.

How do you celebrate yourself?

Listening to Trees

By Lian Brook-Tyler

This week I saw a lion and a wolf in the bark of my special oak tree. Both are symbolic animals for me and seeing them together in this way was the answer to a deep question I’ve been living into.

Is there *really* a lion and a wolf depicted here?

My old evidence-crazed self would have said “Of course not! How delusional.”

Whereas this me surrenders to all the ways the Divine shows itself, especially in the form of this tree.

I navigated the happenings of 2020 entirely from a message that this tree told me in the February of what was to come and what it would mean for me and the world. It meant I danced in the rupture with more love and grace than I believe I otherwise would have.

If that’s delusional then I’ll take it when that delusion has guided me so well, so reliably, for so many years.

Terence McKenna said “The cost of sanity in this society, is a certain level of alienation.”

When a society has drifted far from its roots, when things are topsy turvy, maybe delusion and sanity become one… and if my delusional sanity means a certain level of alienation then I’ll take that too. It’s a sovereign price I’ll pay over and over.

But I have a feeling it’s not a price I’ll need to pay for long… the dreamers, crazy ones and misfits are waking to the wisdom of the wild and are beginning to gather. As Lennon said “I hope someday you’ll join us. And the world will be as one.”

Places to come join us:

Private facebook group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/primalhappiness

Podcast – https://primalhappiness.co/podcast_list/

Go Deeper – https://primalhappiness.co/godeeper/

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The power of story… what stories are you telling about yourself?

By Lian Brook-Tyler

I’ve been lying in bed looking through old photos with the children.

The timing is interesting because this month in Waking The Wild Medicine we’ve been entering the crucible of Story (especially the telling of the story of our wounds and gifts… and telling them from Sovereignty), so my younger self has already been more in my awareness than usual.

On Tuesday, I told the Circle the story of why I spent my childhood looking and acting like a boy. In short, it was because I thought anything Feminine was weak and unlovable.

And then funnily enough, my son said this morning whilst looking at my childhood photos “You look like a boy, Mama!”

I believe my response to him saying that was different to what it would have been even a week ago… because something has been illuminated and integrated more deeply in the sovereign telling of my story to my Circle.

Fast forwarding a bit, in these photos I was 19. A photography student friend asked if I would help him out with creating his portfolio.

I look so open, strong and confident here (woah! so self-possessed at 19!), when in fact, I mostly felt anything but. The story I could have told about myself then was one of inadequacy, uncertainty and a desperate need for control to keep myself safe.

It would be many years before I had reclaimed and integrated the parts of me from shadow that would allow me to feel open, strong and confident (and so much more)… truly and deeply.

The stories I can tell about myself now are very different but they don’t deny or dismiss the stories I used to tell. The old stories made me who I am, they are a portal of connection for others with similar stories and they are a beacon of light for the possibility of telling a new one.

… 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.

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