Soothe it all away

When you throw a stone in to the water, everything stir up, perhaps it gets muddy, and you have to wait for the stone to go to the bottom, and then the water becomes clear again.

If you feel you always have had a lot of difficulties and struggles in life, it could be either your birth have been difficult or your mother had a difficult time during the pregnancy or birth and you have inherit the hardship, pain and fear, which plays out in your life. It could also be something running in your lineage, we carry wounds….

In my last ayahuasca retreat in December, I had a profound experience of myself from a baby until adult, understanding where all the struggles and hardships came from…both from my mother, which was in a big grieving period when she got pregnant with me, because she lost the baby a month before he was supposed to be born. Shortly after I was conceived (the advice of the doctor, have a baby quickly, it will solve the grief).

I felt in my ayahuasca retreat how that advice had impacted my life deeply. And how much support, love and understanding I have needed, I am sure I was loved but there was no life energy in my mother, and as babies and children we need being surrounded by life energy so we are able to trust and have faith in life.

In the session my shaman wrapped be in her shawl and cradled me for hours like a mother and her baby, it was like I underwent decades of grief and at the same time received all what I needed in those life periods from my shaman. All our feelings are welcome, sadness, grief, anger, shame and so much more.

We carry with us traumas, stories and pain traveling through our lineage. If you dare to explore and heal the unseen of your family, meet yourself and the unseen parts, love them and love yourself, take your time…there is no need of hiding away anything from yourself, you need you.

Sometimes we need many rounds with the same wounds and traumas, and are staying in the survival mode, but one day we are at peace with it. We do this work to return to ourself, we do it to be able to love and share love, it is very brave to feel the unseen parts of ourself, to feel vulnerable and no matter how conscious your mind is, there will be parts of you who haven’t grown to that conscious level, it is okay, show yourself compassion and love…



Children

Remember that children are closer to life and being the soul they. Most of us have for many years been trained out of the natural way of being and our soul awareness. Although it is common we adults are expected to be the wise ones – we are given another opportunity to learn how to…

Which place are you in?

Perhaps you grew up in a dysfunctional home or have experienced a lot of difficulties in life, traumas, heartache, pain and struggles you will need to tell yourself and especially your thoughts and thought patterns that life can be good, it can be gentle, loving, full of good people, where you feel safe and experience…

Flying low today

Stretch for your consciousness, learn to relax, and the most important thing, love yourself, really love yourself, listen to your needs, listen to what you need to offer yourself this very moment. Today I worked from home, and later had an appointment with a friend, and the plan was to go to the beach and swim, but the day turned out chaotic and draining for different reasons, I had a plan, and the day turned out totally different, so I cancelled the swim, my whole system needed to stay at home and nurture myself, in between crying, suddenly having a Plummer stepping by looking at the water system in our home, in between work calls, and trying to hold some loving space for myself.

Selflove is to feel your feelings, cry when it’s overwhelming, offer yourself the peace you need, and I was so lucky I actually had a session with a lovely trancemedium, Elaine Thorpe and her spirit Jonathan in the middle of everything, the timing was so good, because he was talking about expanding your consciousness through love for yourself, that our spiritual growth works through different human feelings, dealing with them, and we had an hour long session where he was talking and I was silent, in the end I was offered trancehealing, it really helped my system and heart – made me more soft and relaxed. I love how the universe is working…

The world needs we offer ourself selflove, we become more empathic and in that way we are helping with the overall harmony and peace in the world. Sometimes our own light is helping us, other times we need some help from the outside, like me today from a highly developed spirit. We learn through feelings, also to let go of them, sometimes we need a symbolic giraffe view, seeing everything from above, accessing the quality food in the top of the trees, reaching for the highest, hold your head high, much love and light from me.

The world goes on as it must, let go of all of it, choose the door to yourself…

photo: Aviaja Szomlaiski Olsen

From a private guided tour I had a month ago at the very very old stock exchange in Copenhagen, which went through a rebuilding and through the end it all burned down, so now they have been rebuilding some of the beautiful historic building…choose a door…everything leeds to love.



Gentle reminder

To live your life now, go after what you are longing and dreaming about, it doesn’t have to be the big things, it’s more a matter of being you. I have an old father with dementia and spending time with him reminds me to live now. His fading memory comes in waves, sometimes I think…

Becoming aligned

For living authentically, connect deeply and understand reality beyond you can be inspired by these lovely movies : Wisdom of Happiness with Dalai Lama, directed by Barbara Miller and Philip Delaquis, the Dalai Lama emphasizes compassion, mindfulness, and cultivating inner peace. Innsæi the power of intuition, by Icelandic Hrund Gunnsteinsdóttir, explores intuition as a form…

Be your own home

Love is feeling energized and aligned, love is also boundaries and self-respect, it is okay to feel lonely if you are the only one doing some inner work, the most important thing is to stay connected with yourself, we can care for others and have responsibilities, but your needs matters, learning your own needs and…

illusions

that something should have been in another way

that you are not worth it

fear running the show

you don’t have time

death

you don´t have enough, money, ressources, etc.

you are not in connection with yourself or others

that you cannot handle or control it

Remember you have so much power



allow yourself to feel and sense

Do what speaks to your soul, we don’t have to match others and to do what is correct, accepted, the proper thing or something and someone others can tolerate, just because they can’t see you or what you see doesn’t mean you need to change yourself to belong, to be loved, trusted, being part of…

meaning

When we are having traumas, survival strategies or repeating things in our life, it is our thoughts, memories, patterns and imagination we need to deal with. Past and future doesn´t exist, but we visit and revisit both of them over and over, and we have a specific response to them, and our response create our…

enjoy

If you are more curious about me, I have another blog called aviajaspace, I have had it since 2012, it is a joyful part of my life when my children where small, a blog where I could express my creative side in the evenings and still being at home…its very rare I post at my…

So simple

I love my plants and all the insects visiting them, I always pick plants which I know the insects love, so they have something to choose between- every morning and evening I have a little routine with my plants, are they okay, do they need something, or just saying hi to the bees, sometimes it happens that I wake up some bees sleeping in my roses, ooh their sound is so sweet (they sleep at least 5-8 hours and sometimes in flowers). I love my slow mornings this period…enjoy some of my plants, a lovely bee from this morning…and enjoy your weekend…

Simple and slow

Expanding consciousness

Anything that is beautiful and true is always simple



medicines

Different paths, different teachers, but what works the best you finding your own medicine, whatever form that is, you will sense it in your body, in your life, it is a matter of inviting in to your love all the things you love, start with the small things, it will grow, it will guide you…

Vacation journal

Yesterday I went straight from work to the beach with my girls, to celebrate my youngest daughter had passed the theorethic test for her drivers license and me having 3 weeks of vacation. So lovely to swim and laugh with them. Later I decided to stay in the City at my daughters home, because Im…

Be gentle with yourself and remember

We are forever

creation

The light

Love

Joy

Connection

We are meaningful

We are presence, this moment

We are spirit and peace

Energy and frequency

We are NOW and at Home in our Center



relax and release

Sometimes when we experience feelings as fear or anxiety, our mind can push it out in the back so we forget about it, but the feeling is stored in the body. When we enter an environment, where the senses remind of that experience it activates our nervous system and our body react on it. That’s…

the soul in the space

Next week Im visiting a very very old and very large building from the 1700s, where I am asked to offer a house clearing and sense what is going on. I cannot write about where, what and who, but I really look forward to help. When they asked me if I was able to help…

Own your power

Letting go of victim mentality takes a lot of effort and work, to feel like a victim can be like having a friend you cling to, because that was the one you had through the rough periods in life and it helped you. But to see and release the victimhood and all of its stories,…

Follow your own river

Lately have I been re-practicing slowing down, because I felt it was building up at work, busyness, demands, limited time, feeling exhausted when I got home, fuzzy in my head, you probably know the feeling.

So I have been very much aware of my plate of projects, and accepting I wasn’t able to help everyone in the same period. I have been looking at what productivity is, and I do like to offer my projects quality instead of quantity. I still feel I need to change some of the schedule, so I can focus on a fewer things than just ping from one to another the whole day…thats the good thing about my age, I sont feel I need to show my worth, I know it is good enough what I am offering.

I have also given myself more sleep more awareness around my sleep schedule. My tibetan meditation teacher is saying 9-9,5 hours sleep helps you to get enough of the deep sleep, and winding down an hour before sleep is very beneficial for the quality of sleep.

Another thing which has helped me is implementing enough time for the people and things I love in my life, so there is a balance, that’s why I have started my Tibetan Dream and Sleep course and my daily meditation twice a day. Yesterday I was with my lovely meditation group at home, we had a nice vegetarian meal, drank the plant medicine bobinsana, which is opening up the heart and meditated, such a nice evening.

Its a new time a new fase, where I have been letting go of pleasing, hurry, doing everything, taking all the responsibilities in the broader family.

I love how it has changed my nervous system, expanded my time and feeling of being well rested, created space for spontaneity and for what I love.

I feel it has a lot to do with my shamanic retreats the last 1,5 year, where I have been working deeply with my energy field, lineage, stories, patterns…saying no can be a very good thing, because it we are not machines and there is so much more to life, music, art, nature, feeling connected with oneself and others, joy here and there, we are worthy as we are right now and having meaningful lifes.



Sleep is ignorance, awaken state is light

I have always had a lot of dream activity – in periods very clear and helpful messages I have used to guide myself through life. In this period where Im still in the Tibetan Dream and Sleep Yoga course, I had a dream some nights ago which I thought was interesting to write about. I…

Apply wisdom

Much of the world is build around and alongside the intellect and the rational, but how do we know what we know? Is knowledge solely something derived from measurement and the presentation of evidence, or can it also come from experience, intuition, dreams, relationships, and the direct experience of life? Many before me have probably…

Choosing yourself

I think we all know that if you want to help others you need to help yourself first. How do we help ourself? As children many of us feel loneliness, because our own parents had traumas, unhealed experiences either inherited or gained through their childhood, I think it is so common… I come from a…

Practice awakening

My Tibetan Dream and Sleep Yoga teacher is saying

Life is a school where you learn how to remember, what your soul already knows

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche


Languages in common

If people don’t understand our personal language, I would not compromise and try to fit in, nor would I as the one not understanding others focus on what I dont understand, instead I would look for languages we have in common. You may think it could be where we are born, languages, religions, our race…

weather magic

rain comes and go and water the plants and flowers – and the wind is reminding us that you may not see it, but you can sense it, we need all kind of weather to grow. We don’t always need to know what is going on, but we can decide if we want to see…

Soothe it all away

When you throw a stone in to the water, everything stir up, perhaps it gets muddy, and you have to wait for the stone to go to the bottom, and then the water becomes clear again. If you feel you always have had a lot of difficulties and struggles in life, it could be either…

Where body and Soul meets

Yesterday a dear friend of mine invited me to a morning talk at The Museum of Louisiana for a current exhibition about Lucian Freud.

As I work with the soul, energy, and the inner landscape of human beings, I see Lucian Freud’s art as revealing how our life experiences are carried and expressed through the body.

“He paints where life leaves its marks.”

He does not paint auras, angels, or spiritual symbols. But he paints the place where the soul has lived, loved, suffered, and experienced life. Therefore, his works can be experienced as spiritual in a very grounded and existential way.

It is precisely the field of tension between body and soul, the visible and the invisible, that makes his portraits so powerful, but also sending mixed feelings and create reflections and thoughts about themes like :

The Soul Through the Body, Deep Presence, The Shadow and Authenticity, Life Force, The Sacred in the Ordinary.

I have worked and created art myself and love what art are able to create in us…then a little of the landscape on a cloudy day – Sweden on the other side of the strait.



Flying low today

Stretch for your consciousness, learn to relax, and the most important thing, love yourself, really love yourself, listen to your needs, listen to what you need to offer yourself this very moment. Today I worked from home, and later had an appointment with a friend, and the plan was to go to the beach and…

illusions

that something should have been in another way that you are not worth it fear running the show you don’t have time death you don´t have enough, money, ressources, etc. you are not in connection with yourself or others that you cannot handle or control it Remember you have so much power

So simple

I love my plants and all the insects visiting them, I always pick plants which I know the insects love, so they have something to choose between- every morning and evening I have a little routine with my plants, are they okay, do they need something, or just saying hi to the bees, sometimes it…

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Follow your own river

Lately have I been re-practicing slowing down, because I felt it was building up at work, busyness, demands, limited time, feeling exhausted when I got home, fuzzy in my head, you probably know the feeling. So I have been very much aware of my plate of projects, and accepting I wasn’t able to help everyone…

Practice awakening

My Tibetan Dream and Sleep Yoga teacher is saying Life is a school where you learn how to remember, what your soul already knows Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche

Pure open awareness

I have always had vivid dreams and a rich dreamlife. In periods I have been able to awake myself in my dream state and tell myself that I was dreaming, that’s funny, but not in the meaning of awakening up from my sleep, I just told myself in my dream state that I was dreaming and continued to sleep. I have also been able to intentionally continue dreams the next night, or able to remember my dream from the previous night when I lay down for sleep, its feels like unlocking a doorway to the dream state or if I become still during the day, sense my body I usually can enter a place where I feel/see my dream from the night. Then I have had dreams where I felt they were connected with my spirituality and meditation, with symbols, messages, nature scenery, dreams which have felt a lot more awake and real than my physical awaken state.

16 years ago I was signed up to participate in a course with a tibetan lama, Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche prior to the course I had been traveling for 5 weeks participating in different buddhistic retreats in Europe, so when I came to Copenhagen and went to the retreat venue, I felt immensely tired, that I decided to take a rest instead of having another course, before traveling back to my family in Greenland.

So since then I have wanted to participate in that course I didn’t take at that time, “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep” by Ten Wangyal Rinpoche. So lately I have been meditating Bön Buddhism meditation regularly, mornings and evening to see if I felt ready to commit to the meditation work, which is both during day and night. I have been meditating within a Bön buddhist group years ago, so its familiar to me.

This is a short resume about what it is about : The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep are advanced Bön and Buddhist practices designed to cultivate continuous awareness. Practitioners learn to maintain mindfulness through both the illusion of dreaming and the void of deep sleep, ultimately using these states to dismantle attachments, recognize the illusory nature of reality, and achieve spiritual awakening.



Where body and Soul meets

Yesterday a dear friend of mine invited me to a morning talk at The Museum of Louisiana for a current exhibition about Lucian Freud. As I work with the soul, energy, and the inner landscape of human beings, I see Lucian Freud’s art as revealing how our life experiences are carried and expressed through the…

Pure open awareness

I have always had vivid dreams and a rich dreamlife. In periods I have been able to awake myself in my dream state and tell myself that I was dreaming, that’s funny, but not in the meaning of awakening up from my sleep, I just told myself in my dream state that I was dreaming…