Archive for the ‘Joy’ Category

As I approach the final anniversary in May, I am again reminded of the power that emanates from within.

Last night at dinner, with a wonderful group of men, I was asked about how things in my life, were going. Yes there was the usual surface gratitude. And then, when I checked for a moment, inside, I was overcome with a greater sense of deeper gratitude and power, an internal and much more earthy gratitude. I was aware of a deep and rich sense of gratitude and power that radiated directly from my source.

This reminder brought up a great well of very lovely, juicy and fertile energy. My greater sense reminding me that this richness resides within me and flows from my source. The source of life, the within. This within, the place where I am nothing but myself: a beautiful and meaningful, radiant, blissful being.

I am filled with gratitude and pleasure as I realize that the past year has exercised, strengthened and enlarged this great pool of within and the personal strength that comes from my, within. My life source has been enriched by the experience of being made irrelevant and being cast aside.

The within in me, is the source of all of my life and my energy.  A year ago I would have never thought or even imagined that I might have within me the power to move ahead and become more myself than I have ever been.I am so very grateful to have been able to access and utilize and pump out from this well, this source, that accesses the within. The power within me to overcome those that would have me be powerless and without strength or individuality.

Today when I am utilizing this life force, when I am accessing and actively flowing from the source, I am letting myself come out to play and create and bring meaning to my world. I am full of relevance and fortitude and I even have power. I am anything but “IRRELEVANT” I am powerful and full of meaning.

A note to those that might feel bullied, coerced, forced to be something that they are not, shamed and dominated, made to feel powerless. Your LIFE source, the power within you, to be you, is within and is full of the brilliant radiance that is you. When you can let this source energy flow and be in the brilliance of exactly who, you are, you will have full and resolute power.

To those that have been bullied, please never take on the words, coercion, ridicule, shame or domination of those bullies. Please reach inside and bring out your brilliance, especially in the face of those who wish to wield power in a brutal and careless manner. The world can only be a better place if each and every human being, could live from the BRILLIANT RADIANCE that comes from source and resides in each of us, in the within.

LOVE ~ Phillip

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The listings for all of May 2013 are available!

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Spring is in the air and LOVE is FRESH!

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This from a very personal outlook today as the warmth and light of spring awaken me with their warmth …

Why am i so very distrustful when those I barely know, speak to me and say things to me about “brotherhood”, “camaraderie”, “shared community”… Both my heart and mind say “Sorry, I have barely met you?… I find myself withdrawing and moving to a place of separation… I can easily find myself… (Yes like Alice) in a place where everything is very unfamiliar.

My imagery and thoughts go to how quickly everything moves in the world that we live in and how very little is left to the nurture and trust that can be built when we take getting to know each other a little slow.

LOVE and LIGHT to all out there..

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April Events at the Awaken Studio.

Soon you will be able to book your counselling sessions online.

Very EXCITED about the Kama Sutra Camp in July!

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Holi – a festival of abandon.

References to this event are often made as playing Holi. This festival of colour and a celebration of the riot that happens as Spring takes over the world holds a place dear in my heart.

I love the idea of playing with abandon and letting oneself get into the muck of what is. Playing in all this colour and the riotous quality of what one has no control over can be exhilarating and freeing.  The story of Krishna playing with the milk maids as a lowly goat heard is inspiring… The thought that good can transcend evil and that everything will be okay as long as we remain faithful is a source of strength. God to me is the divine nature and internal source that we all have in our own individual self.

Here is a description of the background of the festival:

Originally known as the ‘Holika Festival’, this ancient Indian festival has been part of the nation’s tradition for over centuries already. It is celebrated on the last full moon day of Phalguna, a month in the Lunar Calendar which falls between February and March. It marks the beginning of the spring season where colors spring to life to beautify the surroundings even more. Furthermore, it is the day when the Hindus pay homage to their legends.

According to Hindu beliefs, Holika is a devil who has the gift of immortality. He was defeated by Vishnu, the main Vedic god of preservation and the universe. It is this story of good triumphing over evil which is the main cause for the Holi Festival. It constantly reminds the people that everything will be okay as long as they remain faithful to their gods.

However, it is not only the religious anecdote in which the whole celebration is based. The act of wetting people with scented water and subsequently dumping them with bright powder colors came from the Hindu belief that the god Krishna is fond of playing pranks on little girls. He loves dumping them with water and bright colors.

Healing through play… smiling helps and the JOY of life to be found in the act of Celebration.

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Everything always seems easier with Gratitude.

I woke this morning and found that my heart was filling with fear at all that was in the day and the week…

Some of the questions that rolled in the fear were…”Had I not been asking for this for so very long?” “Here it was and what was I going to do? ” Would I be good enough?” “Would everything work out?”

All these thoughts filling me were not what I wanted. They were all elements that I had no control over.

A few breaths in and out and mind-fully letting go of the fear I wondered what might I fill my heart with.

What washed through me in my wondering, was GRATITUDE.

Gratitude that there was so much. Gratitude that everything was really so simple,   Gratitude that I was full of LIFE and LOVE and that everything was just as it should be.

There was such a release in me that I could feel the whole of the day and the week falling together as I let the sense of Thank-fullness seep into every pore, nook and cranny of my being.

Grateful today.

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As I look at what I have on today… I see more and more LOVE

Today, with clients and those around me, I have the honour to show the way in BEing LOVE.

This LOVE can be self LOVE or LOVE of one another, LOVE for all human-kind or LOVE of all that is…

Today is simply put about LOVE

Spread the LOVE, be generous.

I am riding a wave of excitement!

My heat is thumping. My eyes are tearing. My chest is expansive. My breath is deep. My body is open.

Today I took a huge step. I placed my new website up LIVE. It is very pink. I am so happy to have been able to create this new step for myself and my business.

The new site: www.phillipcoupal.ca

Loving the JUICY Heart feeling as men begin to Subscribe… You can subscribe here: Subscribe page

Lots to do to build the community around me that I so long for.

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Dear Human

…Infused with divinity. Lived through the grace of stumbling. Demonstrated through the beauty of… messing up. Often. You didn’t come here to be perfect. You already are. You came here to be gorgeously human. Flawed and fabulous. …

… It’s enough. It’s Plenty.

 ~ Courtney A. Walsh

On my Birthday a look at humanity and the human condition. -♥- Glad to be 56! Born in 56… This will only happen once! 😉

 

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Thanksgiving day 2012

“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does

"desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers" - David Orr

Thanksgiving Day 2012 –
“desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers” – David Orr on Juicy Heart by Phillip Coupal

of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
― David Orr, Ecological Literacy