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Each of Us has a Story7/2/2019 Each of Us has a Story: its part of our power if we choose to own it. And the more we completely own our whole story: good, bad and even the ugly, the more we are able to be completely present with ourselves and with others. I am still learning to do this at every aspect of my life: how I feel, think, what I am doing, etc. To be more honest with others about your story both past and present, is to be vulnerable. And that is scary sometimes especially when you have been invalidated repeatedly and hurt deeply. But to try to share our story is part of our adventure, our challenge and our path in life. It's part of our 'muchness' for to follow the white rabbit but stop yourself before going down into the rabbit hole is to possibly live in regret and fear. Let's encourage each other and ourselves to follow into an unknown situation with faith, and trust that in participating in the story we are also sharing in it as well.
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![]() Women as we are, is Enough! Anything Other Is Just a Lie to Control & Limit It was a nervous experience riding on the train and meditating while the rumbly transport took me closer and closer to my ultimate-vulnerability in full glorious cacophony and exposed display: a full nude group female photo-shoot for the grassroots non-profit www.WomenEnough.net. The group seeks to get real and positive body images of women into mass-media. I had been looking at the human experience of mass-mythos around Eve. I was seeing how this lie of denigration of our bodies, malice towards women making initiating choices and “deserved punishment of fall from grace” weakens not only women’s natural power of wisdom, inspiration, receptivity and beauty but also weakens and undermines men’s power to partnership in relationships, and receiving the nurturance, advice and companionship from women. An outcome of this mythos is women are kept competing against each other (this is really really really nasty stuff – not remotely anything like male competition) and inferior to men: we are made to be INHERENTLY NOT ENOUGH. This harms us all. So some men think “women don’t inherently know what’s best for themselves”, so they may think that they are entitled to and should directly control both women and everything else. There is much more I could say about the impacts of this deep mythos that 2/3 of the human population subscribes to at some level (Jew, Christian, Muslim). I, as I am prone, did some healing work on this. I let this belief shift to its evolved next step. It became the Woman (Eve) who with feminine confidence hands the found apple of Wisdom (i.e. Free-will and Adultness which no longer needs Father in the Sky and Mother in the Ground to be Complete) to the Man (Adam). And Adam was welcomingly receiving the Sophia/ Shekhinah/Divine Feminine Wisdom-Presence AND know he is still desired, needed and a powerful provider-protector. In the image I saw all of this and especially Eve’s hand joyfully holding and presenting the apple. This is NO SIN: this is Ownership of our innate forms feminine and masculine of power. I completely stripped for full hair and make-up (to be honest we did wear shoes from Sponsor UPHeals). I sat chatting with my beautiful makeup artist Tanya Hibbard and noticed the tattoo on her arm and asked about it. She said it was her own original design: it included a nude of herself with many arms one of which holds “The Apple”. There was the same image I saw on the train. I shared this with Tanya and we both had an amazing moment of Perfection. I felt like I could be me and that was enough and that freed me to be enough with everyone else, which made it so easy to revel in the experience of all the other lovely ladies at the shoot. Truth be told: I was the thickest chick there. But I was perfect and felt great. The founder Michelle Fetsch of Women Enough had me go first to “break the ice” and it was a joy to play in front of the camera – and if you are warm, then really clothes are so over-rated. We all got together for various group shots. It was grand. I found out later from several gals my playful, confident and energetic jump into full nudity first had loosened them up (who btw were ALL younger and thinner) to be more confident about themselves and let the last bits of clothing come off. WOW. I also got to sit there watching each lady in her individual shots; I was drinking in their bodies and beauty – I was comparing and observing and appreciating and noticing and enjoying like fine art: I was in fact just being. I was not competing, hiding, invalidating/shaming/judging (myself or others) or ANY of the old crap the old mythos would have us do to ourselves. It was supremely sublime. –Trella Find Out More About Women Enough: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=247417458605827#!/WomenEnough Attend the “BARE”Women Enough Gala In San Francisco Sept 8th: http://womenenough.eventbrite.com/
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Love is the Ultimate Self-Responsibility10/18/2010 Love is the Ultimate Self-Responsibility.
My Tahitian Music Master Teacher , “It is the drums, the music that is the heart of the dance. That is why you must not let your mind wander, you must be disciplined, you must embody the rhythm through practice. The music directs the flow of the dancers. If it is off or inconsistent it disrupts everything. It is an awesome responsibility but it is what it is.” Physiologically the heart is the largest single electro-magnetic pulse throughout the body. It is the drum beat to which the self: the body, the mind, the emotions, the spirit are either in symphony or not. It is indeed a huge responsibility to bare, for it means to know oneself and to love that, to accept oneself and to live according to that. No more lies or competition, just truth and genuine expression of self. It takes ownership of your inherent free-will and the choices you have made up to the present moment. The self-responsibility is great but the outcome is joy and wisdom. -Trella “Aaa eeh tde oa raaa eeh. Eeh Eeh, Awaay, way.”
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All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom is achieved slowly. This is because intellectual knowledge, easily acquired, must be transformed into 'emotional', or subconscious knowledge. Once transformed, the imprint is permanent. Behavioral practice is the necessary catalyst of this reaction. Without action, the concept will wither and fade. Theoretical knowledge without practical application is not enough. 'Many Lives, Many Masters' I openly say that it is the practice that I struggle with. Daily I get closer though and some days I take two steps backward. I must add to the truth of the wisdom above one other thing that I have noticed: you have to just surrend to and trust the practice/the process. To try to control the outcome is to throw a wrench in it really. You can have intentions or desires or goals for where the practice can take you but to hold tight to how or sometimes even what is just another form of fear based on lack of trust. Its the damned letting go stuff that everyone talks about, but if you are not sure what it will be replaced with or that you can even allow receiving in the first place then the whole "letting go" thing is a fight with yourself. A house divided cannot stand. -Trella
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Enlightened today, Asshole tomorrow.8/22/2010 Ok like I just gotta call like I have seen from time to time:
Enlightened today, Asshole tomorrow. Just becuase someone has figured out their true (God bless 'em), doesnt mean they know your truth, your path, or what is right for you. So don't give up your seniority to another, just be inspired and learn from them if that is right. -Trella
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There is no Distance between the problem/pain of an issue and the solution/healing of an issue.
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The Measure of Your Worth is Not Your Worth. Your Worth is a Given, Any Measurement or Comparison is Seduction/Illusion.
-Rev. Trella
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The Beauty of a Sorry5/16/2010 A beauty of apologizing to another is you get to accept yourself at where you are and acknowledge what you want to become. Its like forgiving yourself when offering a sorry.
-Rev Trella
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The Hurt Heart5/11/2010 The place where your heart got hurt is the door to letting go of the lie/decision you've been wedded to keeping yourself safe.
- Rev Trella
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Self Pity / Self Protection5/11/2010 Self pity is a very dangerous energy becuase it opens you up to ANY choice and self protection can easily slip into self enhancement without the grace of humility.
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