The Doorway to Bliss
What is bliss? It is our natural state! This is why saints are pictured with halos. It is not because they have a metal contraption sticking out of their head that radiates light. It is because they became light. And this is available to all of us.
How can I say that this is your natural state? Science has told us that everything is energy. Everything! Quantum physics says that even though we experience everything as solid, it is not! It is all dancing energy! This is what Einstein said with e= mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared. In other words, the more you vibrate matter the more it turns into energy.
So how does this relate to you? You are made of energy. And when you were young, energy danced freely through you, as you. As you grew up you began to hold on more, breathing shallowly, tightening your body and getting lost in thinking about life, trying to get to the so-called ‘good stuff’ and get rid of the ‘bad.’ Your dancing energy began to coagulate until now you, like most people, live in the tight and small world of your mind, cut off from living in your body and experiencing the expansive joy you knew before thoughts began to fill up your head.
Bliss comes when we reverse that movement, going from contraction to openness, from control to connection, from fixing to listening. This happens when our compulsion to contract and resist turns into a relaxed openness that is much more interested in being curious about what is rather than trying to control it. This allows us to be present for life, which is where the doorway to bliss is.
How do you reconnect with this openness and spacious connection with life that is your birthright? Not by trying to get back to it. It comes from getting to know how you struggle and contract. It’s learning how to see all the stories you took on when you were young that have kept you caught in the small and tight world of your struggling mind. It is also through opening your heart to how much you have believed in struggle. As Stephen Levine once said, “Healing is bringing curiosity and compassion into that which we have held in judgment and fear.”
So, I invite you to become a tightness detective. Anything that tightens you – a thought, a feeling, a sensation, comes from your conditioned mind. Rather than staying in resistance, be curious. Ask yourself, “What is happening inside of me that is causing me to tighten.” You may not get an answer right away but keep on asking and slowly and surely you will be able to use the light of your attention to lift the fog of struggle so you can again know the bliss of being fully alive!
If this resonates with you, invite you to listen to my upcoming radio show on Dreamvisions 7 Radio: The Wisdom of the Grandmother Tree. It will air on Thursday, April 24th at 5am and 5pm HERE. After the 24th, it will be available on demand, along with every other radio show I’ve ever done HERE. Please feel free to explore my catalog and listen to topics that call to you.
Offerings:
Free Live Call with Mary:
Thank you for another amazing and intense free live call. I’m excited to share the details of the next event! It will be called: The Field of Joy that is Our Birthright! We will be meeting, on Tuesday, May 6th at 5:30 pm PST for an hour and a half. We will continue to meet every two months, so keep an eye out for future events!
Here is a snippet of what we will be talking about:
We are living in a time that is superfood for our struggling minds, fostering fear, divisiveness and judgment. No matter how big the struggles of your life are right now, there is a field of ease and peace that is always with you. Join Mary in discovering how to unhook from the struggles in your mind enough that you can rest in the joy that is your birthright.
Don’t forget if you can’t make it on the day, you can still participate by sending your questions and enjoying the recording after the call at your convenience. I hope to see you there!
Click HERE to learn more and register!