Going home

When I was 12 years old I was between life and death, I tried to commit suicide because I couldn’t see any light anywhere, my life in my family was so difficult, my mother was mentally ill and an alcoholic and my father had left the home at the absolute worst time. It had been difficult since I was a little, but at 12 years old there had already been some very horrible years.

I was trying to help my little brother and mother, protecting and dealing with dailylife, but it was way too much. So I took a lot of pills and waited to died, I didn’t feel it was a call for help, I just needed relief from my life that suicide became my only and sincere solution. I was found by some classmates who couldn’t understand why I wasn’t at school (I was very dutiful), they found me and I was rushed to the hospital and saved in the last minute. I dont remember anything from being in-between life and death, but since then I recognize so much of what other people are telling after they have went through near death experiences.

Last year I was deeply connected with the whole experience in an ayahuasca ceremony.

I was seconds from being gone for good, its incredible that I didn’t die, a miracle I didn’t die in my attempt, there was so much light around me in my near death moment, there was a whole circle of shamanic Buddhist around me, singing, saying mantras, and keeping my energy system alive in the physical world, keeping me alive, so I didn’t leave for the other world, they were working from the spiritual world and they kept my energy system together until help arrived in the physical world, it was a gift of grace, a karmic gift that I didn’t died, from logical considerations I should have been gone.

After that experience I have had an increased sensitivity, I feel energy very strongly, in weather, in people and animals. Sometimes I feel the two worlds at the same time and spirit have paid me visits over the years (that already started when I was a small child). I get information in advance and see auras. Before my suicide attempt I was so young and not very materialistic, life was so messy at home that my focus was elsewhere, but after my suicide Im for sure non-materialistic. Spirituality and deep connections are very important for me and as much alonetime I can get.

Pain and suffering is awakening, it is part of becoming conscious, aware, it’s a tool for you. What have you learned in this life? When you are in your soul and you love something you become one with it, one …one…love, compassion, consciousness, we are one..



simple

this time of the year, warm colors, soft soil, plenty of fish, berries, reindeers, crisp air, winter is watching from a distance, welly time, filling up freezer, Mother Earth is generous, animals and people collecting in nature… people and traditions, not surrounded by this, these years, but my body remembers the season, the traditions, proudly…

you are enough

waiting, watching, connecting to a wellknown universe – you are sacred every moment in whatever you do and are, thinking it has to be in a certain way, ceremonially or a specific place, let go of that, every moment is our medicine, awaken, alive, in our heart there is nothing to do or be or…

uncertain

the uncomfortable feeling of being in-between the one I was and the one Im becoming expanding, stretching, shedding, evolving, less of the old – more of the new some days slow and silent, other days fast and loud, some something else there is no ready, just expression and allowing free your energy all of you…

Passing through

Me in a buddhistic intensive retreat I Cologne – photo Thea D. Boldt

Most of the time we forget that we are just passing through this time and place, we get so caught up in dailylife, ego aspects, ups and downs that we don’t understand we are here to grow, to look at what is, we are here to open our hearts in every situation.

From time to time Im online listening to peoples personal stories having went through near death experiences (NDE) – all of them are saying we are here to let go of fear and learn how to forgive and love. It sounds so simple.

Through life and our life experiences we adapt and create so many layers dealing with life, that we little by little get far away from our true nature, our light – the nature we came with.

Connecting with our light how does the light feel like?

For me I feel at peace, I feel Im in the present moment, no matter how my life looks like (ups and downs), Im in a pure contact with myself and detached from my layers, roles, faces, strategies. No worrying, my heart feels so light, and I feel deep joy. I feel compassion towards other people (where as in dailylife I can see them very different), I have an understanding and awareness of my natural state. It feels very soft, gentle and expanded (I can only compare it to a state of deep meditation) everything feels like love.

Years ago when I got divorced (at the time I was also meditating 2-3 hours per day to ease up the circumstances) I had an opening (I have had many during my life since I was a child), I was in a pure state of joy and love for several weeks, everything felt as love, I can still laugh about how much love I felt from asphalt, and how crazy some people thought I was, when I tried to describe my state.

Simplicity, harmony, quiet, meaningful, connected with source, flow, authentic, soulful, slowly returning…to your heart.



owning who you are

be proud of who you are and have done, just remember you are not our accomplishments – you are your energy, your soul, what you are here, present, alive, in the world to experience it. not all people are qualified to tell you who you are sense the truth through your gut, no matter what…

Be open and curious

I have always loved to read, all kinds of literature – but for the last ten years it has mostly been non-fictional books, and I have felt I kind of had to relearn reading fictional books. I went to the library some days ago with my eldest daughter to pick up a non fictional book,…

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Close your eyes Inhale, exhale Just be Feel your body, feel your heart Be yourself, no reaction to anything – not even your body and mind Just witness and become silent and quiet

We are all ONE

Connecting with my inuit spiritual heritage have been on-off on my mind for many years. In Greenland we have had a very long tradition with shamans – called Angakok, the wise people of the settlement being able to travel and stay in both worlds, the earthly world and the spirit world. In Greenland we believe that everything is having a soul, the plants, the animals the weather, the people, everything, we call it Inua…

In Iceland they have a very present and alive tradition for honoring and respecting nature spirits when they are going to build new roads and houses…a much more alive belief system than in Greenland.

After the colonization from year of 900 to 1721 the shamanic tradition have been erased year by year in Greenland..but even in the last century and in our time there has been so much cultural genocide, ethnocide and forced assimilation. No doubt it has been difficult to keep our connection with our roots in all matters…

I still feel it happens systemic in Greenland in the public administration (I have been working there and with them through my own business) and elsewhere where people with a specific mindset rule , and now over the last year we have another threat from the outside…one crowd control after the other. I have been wondering over a long time how to deal with it within and how to be at service to change the pattern.

I sense in Greenland there is a need of a spiritual connection, which of course is a very personal matter, and people have started to claim parts of our traditions like inuit tattoos also called tunniit. My girls and I have them and through them feel more connected with our culture and spirituality. The tattoos were earlier connected with rites and passages, today I sense it’s more a matter of reconnecting and claiming something lost.

But how do we connect with something that hasn’t been kept alive for such a long time..I know there are a few people calling themselves shamans in Greenland and respect what they do, everything counts. But we do not have an unbroken line of shamanism in Greenland – there have been many years without our traditions (most places in Greenland it is hundreds of years without shamans, a few places at the east coast we have had some shamans in the last century). Some of their work have been documented by white people, but handing down the traditions haven’t happen for so many many years…so where to start, are we even able to start. This is not about reading about it, shamanism is alive and connecting with energy and spirit, the work is done in the moment.

I know similar fellow ingenious and native people from around the world are trying to keep their traditions alive in our busy mental world where facts are honored, but how do we deal with it in daily life keeping the ancestral lineage alive? This is not only for indigenous people, it is for all of us to ask the question, how do I walk this path in my earthy life, being a spiritual being, how do I go within, look for myself, who am I, how do I realize I am connected with everything and everybody, how do I understand we are one and that there is no separation.

No matter how foggy the path is, go within, start with yourself if you like to help others, start to go within, we live in an ego world, allow yourself to feel that we need each other, we are a unity.

A path is to understand that nature is therapy, walk through energy, and remember that the path is so much more than wounds, we all have strength and power and by going within we find our answers. It is not only about remembering it is also what we do in this moment, connecting with yourself and experiencing your own light…untangle yourself from everyday life and materialism – we all have a divine origin…



Maybe its time to…

I love how I feel inside when I knit…the tenderness, a calm and quiet feeling. I am knitting a lot for the moment, at home, in the train, sometimes at meetings…for me knitting are the opposite of busy and rushing, its something I do for me (although the knit is often gifts for others), its…

Meditation travel

From zero practice to daily two hours with presence in daily life. Is it possible? Is it realistic? To practice meditation on a daily basis require some planning, but mostly to built up gently and realistically so your practice will be:

sustainable, deep, physically integrated, spiritually grounded, a naturally part of your life

The goal is not just to be able to sit for two hours daily, but to:

regulate the nervous system, create inner silence, strengthen contact with intuition and soul, live more present, make meditation a way of life

Im for the moment trying to find back to a meditation practice that will work for me. When I had small children, I actually managed to meditate 2-3 hours per day, sitting on a cushion in deep practice…I went up early and sometimes I was sitting during the day. Then I got divorced and became a fulltime single mother and had to accept meditation had so be something different in my life.

In my current life Im not able to sit during the day and already commute at least 10 hours per week, and are a little hesitant with meditating in the train with all the energy from other people…

But some sort of morning and evening practice, and becoming more everyday present could be a good plan. I have so much more time now compared to when I had small children (my girls are 18 and 22 and one is already living by herself).

My inner self have been nudging me for quite a while to resume a practice. During my life I have had a meditation practice since I was 17 years old, even when I was as little as 5-6 years old I remember I had a deep need of spiritual connection (my family was atheist’)so it was not from my family I had the need, it came from within.

I love when I have established a routine, I love sitting on my cushion, being in silence, listening to my breath, feeling more grounded and having a more clear intention for the day.

Im also much better at feeling when I need pauses during the day, and are aware of the transition from one activity to another, instead of everything is just one long activity without pauses or presence, so more presence in the daily actions.

And lastly offering myself the evening meditation (short one, mornings are better for me) will definitely be good, so I meditate a little, make some reflections about the day, relax and from time to time become aware of my life.

To start up a practice you will go through fases and for a start it’s good to create a foundation and a rhythm – create continuity and to offer your nervous system some kind of safety is essential. Start to relate meditation with quietness and with coming home. Your body will let you know when its there, its calling you to meditate, you will sense it in your body..

In one way it is about discipline, but if you reframe it to “rhythm” then it feels different…if you miss one day you start up again the next day, no guilt, no “I failed”. You will need determination and willpower to deal with yourself, your feelings, thoughts and patterns.

Just remember this is not about achieving, the length or being the best to it, it is about you having time with you in the present moment

16 years ago I was spending 1 month in silence in France, at a buddhistic retreat, these are some of the photos from the retreat, we meditated daily from 6am to 9/10pm, sitting, walking, cooking, doing task’ in meditation…I would love to be in another month long silent meditation retreat..



Mirror

Spiritual awakening doesn’t have to be grande and loud, extrovert and full of energy and bling bling, it doesn’t have to be together with a spiritual group or teacher, you dont even have to understand everything and see the big picture or find answers, sometimes it is so quiet and in your own company, feeling…

Just noticing

As some of you may know Im a professional interior designer and work with space in my dailylife. For me space is both the outer physical – but also something we experience, a felt and sensed experience, our intuition tapping in to the environment. We sense imprints from the past and what is going on…

The silence in the tent

Fear of being seen has not so much to do with exposing oneself to every situation being out of your comfort zone, but I want to look at it from another angle. In a natural state of Being we dare to be ourself all the time. The opposite is showing the world what we think…

Home is where your cat is

It’s already 5 months ago our very loved and gentle familymember Balou died. We miss him so much every day…so much giving – so much love and laughter – Animals teach us a very pure love



fulfillment

A very lovely path to yourself is through a passion or leisure activity. What do you love to do? Cooking or baking, playing an instrument, something creative like writing, photography, painting, hiking, yoga, swimming, books, gardening, crafts…something that makes you relax, forget about time, something that feels like you and the thing you do are…

Where your life truly begins

Before writing this piece, I have had some days reflecting on different situations and experiences in my life, and my own habits and patterns through out my life. I realized that how easily we devote so much of our energy to understanding other people. Yet the more we analyze them, the further we often drift…

Ástin Sem Eftir Er

The Icelandic title for the movie the Love that Remains, I watched it last weekend and although the theme was about a family going through a separation over a year, there was something about the visual way it was browsing through family life and experiences, image by image, it reminded me so much about authentic…

Listen and Silent are the same



Unseen to seen

don’t go back to the same empty well and expect water that include friendships, family members, work life and your relationship with yourself we all have old stories practiced for a long time some run a big part of our life depending on how many times we have practiced them inside of us. The way…

Moments of calm and love

is the title of the woman meditating by designer Anja Tverdokhlebova It’s so lovely her message with jewelries… It made me think, that the calmer you are the clearer you think, let things be, its a choice we make again and again, pause, you return to yourself, slow is powerful and strength, let go of…

Being seen

If you as a child have experienced not being loved, suffered abuse or have being abandoned at home or out there in your world, you may have created another and better world in your imagination, a world where you have felt love, care and being chosen. These imaginations continues as adults and are called potentials.…

Help yourself

to become more familiar with what is going on within, let go of “fixing” yourself.

A process where you slow down and allow yourself to breathe, where do you breathe? I tend to seek creativity, it’s my background and one of my doors to connect with my Soul. You can find your door by seeing what are you doing effortlessly in your life, so simple without even thinking about it.

It is okay to try different avenues and paths to align with yourself, adjusting and recalibrating, and in between give yourself space for tweaking, re-saddling direction and emerging with new truths.

Being You in Your process is to continuously feeling in to your own values and how you want your life, the right life is very personal.



A reminder

This was last year in Sweden, but a reminder to myself how simple and joyful life can be when you are being present, feeling joy, experiencing life openly with your heart…

Embracing celebration

feeling at home, meeting people I know, laughter, hugs, resting in this social circle, words of love and care, old traditions, casual, warmth finding back home in every area of my inner space, easy, sincere, honest, mind feeling lighter, my day have already started to feel softer, like nutrients, being met as the one I…

Our journey

What creates life and make us blossom, perhaps its a matter of… Love transformed into actionNot only feelings or words, but the small and meaningful actions that say: “I see you. You matter. I am here.” PresenceBeing fully present with the person in front of us, without constantly being trapped in what is missing or what…

So simple

Selflove, Helped my daughter to the airport and thought going to the beach and swim would be nice, so 7am I was in the ocean, lovely, now coffee and breakfast 💦☀️and just enjoying my morning..

The greatest spiritual task

“The greatest spiritual task is not to change the one who hurt us. It is to protect our own heart, so that the hurt is not passed on.” But perhaps there is also a deeper lesson hidden within all of this, a difficult lesson I have worked on for years in my personal life, gained…

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The path to connection is through vulnerability and your energy is your gift, and you choose who have access to it…

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seeing the unseen

language, being flexible, feeling inspired, change, explore, open your eyes, mind blowing, brutally honest, doing something within, changing life, make you think, other points of views, someones heart has purged the art, a gift, someone share themself and we sense them, its coming from the heart… Saturday we had a little afternoon in Sweden because…

Energy is everything

– give yourself some time each day to connect with yourself, sit in silence, spend some time outside in nature, pet your animal, talk with your spirit guide, hug your loved people or other things that nurture your soul…

Carry your heart

Throughout our life we meet and face new and difficult situations, that require us to change and adapt. Look and seek help where ever you can and especially turn your focus inward – seek for the inner knowing of truth and guidance – your soul is having the wisdom you are looking for and remember…

Nature

Spring, my own photo, Aviaja, Inualife

Nature
Drop in to the rich space of nature.
It is an easy way to experience your heart.
You dont have to work hard for it, there is no one to forgive, nothing to achieve, no judgements to let go of or layers to shed.

Nature is Just like a breath – breathe in nature – breathe out – breathe in nature – breathe out..

🌸

 Aviâja,



Children

Remember that children are closer to life and being the soul they are. 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…



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…

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…

Desire of meditation

A little written text from me, Aviaja, Inualife

Ps. I started meditating when I was 17 years old (probably even before in a different way), I have started and stopped many times, and had long periods where I was meditating every day for hours and hours, and long periods where I didnt meditate at all. 
I am meditating for the moment, my soul have asked me to start again, I always know when to start again, its like inner guidance nudging me to meditate, now is the time to listen, to connect and to declutter thoughts.
As little as 5 min, 10-15min is enough to connect with your own divinity. 

✨

Aviâja 



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…

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…