tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88782389268049881362011-11-02T02:39:03.165-07:00Twelve Essential Needs of Your SoulLynn Jerichohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07193504407515541831noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8878238926804988136.post-34830938551259519852009-01-05T15:14:00.000-08:002009-01-06T00:26:48.102-08:00

An epiphany is a revelation. Something new and vital has come to consciousness.In the Christian festivals, Epiphany celebrates the coming of the Three Kings or Magi. It falls on January 6th. The Epiphany that follows Inner Christmas and the Twelve Holy Nights lasts throughout the year.Each of the Twelve Inner Christmas messages was written to initiate an epiphany in your consciousness. Each

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I went to bed with a topic planned for the Twelfth Message. Not surprisingly, I woke in the morning with a quite different inspiration - a tree.Our souls need an image of a Tree. A trunk, simple, straight and solid. Branches and roots, twisted, reaching deep and high, weaving, feeding and nourishing, budding, leafing and fruiting. Sanctuary to birds, bugs, serpents, squirrels, spirits and

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We often take ourselves too seriously. It doesn’t matter if we are working with our strengths or our weaknesses. We tend to get overly concerned with how we see ourselves. We become self-conscious. We get gripped by the image in the mirror. We obsess over our soul boxes. We spend hours in our balloon, drawing the most accurate maps of our feelings.Inner Christmas honors the admonition: O

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We are at the Tenth Holy Night. We are contemplating the tenth need of the soul. I do not begin the Inner Christmas messages with a set of specific topics. The theme is always clear, but the twelve topics are always a surprise and a delight. The topics reveal themselves to me and then I begin to work with them, find the meaning and then the reason for the topic. Yesterday I had planned to

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Yes, boxes. Our souls need boxes.Boxes bless our souls with boundaries and limitations. Boxes are containers for everything in our souls.Boxes have six sides. Top, Bottom, North, South, East, West.We can build our own boxes or we can let others build our boxes.We can take everything out of a box or put everything into a box.We can wonder what’s at the bottom of a box.We can have a box of things

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The day begins, the year begins, life begins, love begins ... everything begins.The Holy Nights ask us to dwell in the mood of beginnings - between Nativity and Epiphany - the birth of the beginning and the revelation of the beginning. Both a birth and a revelation can be planned or can surprise us.Our souls long for both beginnings - the births and revelations of our own self. Some new part of

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We need grief, the little griefs, the medium griefs, and the great big griefs of life.The great big griefs, the tsunamis of the soul, are not the griefs I want to explore in this message, although what is necessary about grief is true for griefs of all intensities.I write about the small daily occurrences of grief - the forgotten appointments, the misunderstandings, the altered plans, the missed

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A calm soul seeks arousal. It wants to be awakened and turned on to life, to nature, to divinity, to others and to self.Most of us read the word, arousal, and think of sexual arousal. Yes, arousal calls out for intimacy, for deep knowing and deep connection. Arousal is a heightened desire for fulfilling engagement of any kind - sexual, spiritual, intellectual, artistic, practical, playful.

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The Holy Nights provide your soul with spiritual calm. They soothe and comfort your soul. You drink in spiritual nourishment. You bathe in spiritual light. You find spiritual blessing. For twelve nights your soul breathing is deep and regular. Center your awareness on this spiritual peace.Tonight, the Fifth Holy Night, look at a calm soul life.Certainly in our very agitated times, our souls

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Covering over the Three MirrorsHaving spent the first three Holy Nights contemplating the three mirrors of the soul, it is now time to address the need to place a cover over the mirrors and experience intimate solitude.When your “I” meets and embraces all the ways of being “I” without any distractions you become “all one.” Gloriously alone, you are in the blessed state of intimate solitude. The

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THE SOUL'S THREE MIRRORSOur souls are mirrored by nature, by divinity and by others. Each day of our lives, our souls must seek these mirrors and gaze into them.Our souls mirror nature, divinity and others. We must keep this mirror polished.FEELINGS OF THE SOCIAL SOULTonight we contemplate our soul’s need for other human souls, the third mirror.What are the three feelings we experience through

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Your soul needs to be certain of divinity.Take a few still and soft moments to let the words “certain” and “divinity” bring their meaning to your consciousness. Don’t read any further until you have done this exercise.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Let me share some of the random thoughts that appeared in my soul while I was still and soft...I find I cannot rely on my intellect to define

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On Christmas Night begin your Holy Nights contemplations with thoughts on your soul’s need for Nature. Whether you are a city dweller or a farmer, tonight celebrate your relationship to the natural world.What do you think of when you contemplate Nature? Sky, sea, flowers, trees, animals, minerals, mountains, sunsets, breezes, bird songs. What activities come to your imagination? Erupting

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