“I accept my brilliance.”
This was the focus of our Nia practice today, the first class of 2010.
Your mission — should you choose to accept it — is your brilliance.
Accept the wild brilliance of your body — with all its 75 trillion cells shimmering like stars, metabolizing and burning bright in the universe of your flesh and bones, like so many busy hummingbirds, keeping the home fires burning in the hearth of the temple of your precious body.
Accept the wild brilliance your mind, just as it is — left brain, right brain, corpus collosum, cerebellum, brain stem and spinal cord, all neurons shimmering their messages like miniature lightnings, like fire flies — and that greater aspect of mind that includes but is beyond the nervous system.
Accept the wild brilliance of your own heart — beating inside your chest, drumming out its rhythmic song of life to which we stomp and dance, its heart flame brilliant, whether shy or gregarious, grief stricken or joyful, playful or contemplative.
Accept the brilliance of your wild spirit — your uniqueness, your energy field that shimmers and shines, that sways and gallops, that sparkles and glides its way through the steppes of the Mystery.
Accept and receive from the holy the gift of your brilliance.
Your mission — should you choose to accept it — is to glisten, luminesce, radiate and beam forth the shine of your natural soul, and to rest within and be nourished by its wild shimmering brilliance, as the moon is by the sun and, as well, the very ground of our own Earth-body-soul-home.
Do you accept?
Just say Yes!
9 responses so far ↓
1 Lloydine Arguelles // Jan 2, 2010 at 5:13 pm
Hey Sister,
I love this one … yes, we sometimes forget our own brilliance! But this one makes me shine on!
Sending love for this New Year!
From your Black Belt Sister
2 Sue K // Jan 2, 2010 at 5:52 pm
You are an amazing writer and I love reading your thoughts. You touch many lives with your shimmering life and spirit, Rachael.
3 Jill Campana // Jan 3, 2010 at 6:16 am
Rachael…
YES!!!! I accept!!!!
I would love to use your words at the end of one of my Nia classes…I will await confirmation from you that I may do so! Lovely, lovely, lovely.
You are a brilliant light in the world, my beautiful, passionate Black Belt sister!!!
Love,
Jill
4 Rachael // Jan 3, 2010 at 11:12 am
Dear Jill,
Yes!! I accept, too! I’d be honored to have you read from my blog to your class.
Thank you for being on this path with me, my beautiful sister!
Love,
Rachael
5 Jackie Diner // Jan 3, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Rachael,
That is so beautiful, it makes me shimmer with anticipation of 2010! You are a shining star and thrilled that we are Black Belt sisters.
Love,
Jackie
6 Rachael // Jan 3, 2010 at 8:46 pm
Thank you, dear friends.
The River of the Unknown shimmers as it flows.
Love,
Rachael
7 Beth and Dan Nichols // Jan 6, 2010 at 2:58 pm
Dearest Rachael,
I just read this beautiful entry to Dan here in the hospital as he is preparing for stem cell transplant. Thank you for these words, I love your brilliant writing. I would like to read this to Dan on the actual day of the gifting of the stem cells to his body, as part of a ritual of receiving / planting/ acceptance and gratitude. Thank you to you and Richard for the light you bring to the world, helping us remember!
With Love, Beth
8 Patricia Ciminello // Jan 6, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Yes! Yes, a 100o x’s times, YES! Ahhh, indeed.
Shimmering,
Pa’tri’cia
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