currents of love, brazilian pineapple, sex, and hula hooping

just finished my 5+ hour manifestation meeting!!!! LAAFS!!!! incredible night! we got deep with our missions! i feel like changing the world Oprah style! today was POWERFUL! the manifestation blog from yesterday i originally sent out as an email to friends and had so many super positive responses… the message hit a core with people… inspired them to do things they would normally not do… think of things in new ways… reconnect with their spiritual essence. what’s even more amazing is that several people moved by the message passed it on to their loved ones who in turn responded with enthusiasm, inspiration, and love!!!! and it hit me that by me making the choice to put this positivity out into the world i was a catalyst of love… and by those who were inspired choosing to pass on the knowledge and inspiration they are catalysts and so on and so on and we all can be a part of this current of love… receiving and giving and receiving and giving! it’s fucking beautiful!!!!! made my day!……then as i was eating some brazilian pineapple that the rock band (that’s recording in Dre’s studio) left over here, i was missing my brazilian man… and he called me and we had a conversation that rocked my world… he was dropping spiritual knowledge/understanding/compassion on me gandhi style, opening up in ways that shocked me… a layer was peeled.. and it showed me the infinite possibilities and perspectives in love relationships… and i wonder what brought this energetic shift and powerful realization, what was making him hold me in this higher reverence? i guess sometimes people have to be away from you to truly appreciate you and understand you in profound ways…i mean how many people truly understand us?  or was he feeling my experiences and thoughts and feelings here and somehow tapped into that energetically? fascinating! i couldn’t get off the phone with him (though i was running late in cooking dinner and my beans did suffer- they have to sit for at least an hour for ultimate sabor)…i’m excited to keep growing and learning in love! i feel like i’m meant to teach others of love though i may not get to everyone in this lifetime. and speaking of love… though we did speak of our INCREDIBLE accomplishments of our group and our focus for 2010…we got on the subject of sex…. as should be expected with these sexy goddesses!  i love how candid some of the group is… i mean nothing is off-limits and i adore it… the questions came up – if a man is more endowed is he typically less talented or motivated with going down on a woman? (cause he feels he doesn’t have to work to please a woman)… and does size really matter?… also, isn’t a man who is uncircumcised more sensitive in feeling? … the answers were great! i wish we had video taped this conversation… real sex would’ve blushed… what a bizarre magnificent day… full of currents of love, break through, good food, deep conversation… i love life! we all have had those moments in life where we feel like hell but we truly create our lives… i’m living proof of that… i’ve developed consciously the beauty that is my life. now i must rest. i have a hula hooping video audition tomorrow! so random! i love life! wishing you the ultimate creation of beauty in your life!!!!

(untouched) photo by megan finley, styled by michele chantel, makeup/hair by tawney bevacqua, art by julia rauda

what you speak is seeking you

from What You Speak is Seeking You… excerpt on manifestation…

What you feel, you manifest. If you want joy, be joyful. If you want love, be loving. If you want abundance, give abundantly, receive gratefully and recognize the abundance you already have.

Recognize there is plenty for everyone. Bless others’ success, knowing it is your success. Be inspired by what others have created, knowing you have the absolute power to create your own success and abundance too.

If you have been masterful at manifesting what you don’t want…shift your attention… and become masterful at manifesting what you DO want.

Don’t settle… it’s like saying you don’t trust the abundance of the universe.

Amazing how we cling to the known, to what is familiar. We may be bored, we may hate it, but we stay and wonder why our entire lives and everything we attract seems to get smaller and smaller, less and less. The solution is simple. Jump. Jump into the gorgeous unknown. The unknown is where the magic of our destiny lies.

Complete and let go of the past. Where do you have unfinished business? When we complete the past we free up powerful creative energy that can go to work on our behalf to manifest our dreams.

When we surrender we trust that all is working out for our highest good. When we surrender, we say; ‘Give me an experience of the unknown…. give me something beautiful… that I could never have known. We keep ourselves in tight little boxes of sameness, the very little boxes we are actually trying to break out of!!!!!!

Get out of the ‘how’ – how is it going to work. how am am i going to get money, how could it happen for me, how how how… and place your attention on having what you love-speak it, feel it, think it, give it, take action, and see yourself having it with ease, grace and abundance. Let the universe and God work out the ‘how’ in brilliant, perfect ways.

Think of something that flows to you naturally. something that you are good at attracting. you don’t think twice about attracting it into your life because you know you do it easily, right? apply that approach to everything in your life and receive it all with ease.

Steps to manifesting!

1. Give voice to your dreams. Set your intentions.

2. Write down your goals. Affirm in advance that you already have them. Yes!

3. Thank the universe, in advance, for what you are manifesting.

4. Expect to be delighted! Be in the feeling of what you want to receive. (By being in the feeling you’re aligning energetically with what you desire to manifest).

5. Speak your goals with excitement and joy as if they are already in motion. Keep them fresh in your consciousness daily.

6. Take action on your dreams. Step out of your comfort zone.

7. Trust. Trust is the bridge between your asking and its manifestation.

8. Surrender and let go. Release what is no longer right for you.

9. Say yes! yes! yes! to your dreams and to who you are!

We are becoming masters of manifestation; Olympians of thought, word, and action. That means, in the face of circumstances that are less than ideal, we remain unmoved. We notice and accept them, but we do not dwell on them. We choose, instead to affirm our abundance. We give energy, appreciation and gratitude to the abundance and love we already have and to the opulent life unfolding.

love to you and your beautiful manifestations!!!!!!

bella

LIVE YOUR DREAMS!!!!!

i sang him a song

i sang him a song but he didn’t listen deeply.

i called out to him but he didn’t respond clearly.

i danced for him but he didn’t watch closely.

i wrote him some lines but he wouldn’t read them lovingly.

i looked in his eyes but he wouldn’t meet my gaze with intensity.

i gave up a man who loved me but he couldn’t rid himself of women that never cared for him and disrespected we.

i took the time to cook him a meal but he inhaled it quickly.

i offered myself to him and he ravaged me but without connection.

i declared my love for him to the world but when it came to the world he didn’t have my back.

i created years for him but he would not give me a day.

i expressed my concerns like a broken record. over and over and over…. till i was about over it. the needle broke. i grew exhausted and drained to the point where i would have out of body experiences looking down on myself acting insane. crying so many tears of unrequited love… starvation… till i could barely recapture those feelings of love’s elation… how to change the situation?…i know there’s adoration but life’s too fleeting to live on rations of passion…and when passion is the air you breathe; it’s a necessity to life. so what do u do when he has your heart?  u can flip it in your head this way and that. this way and that. zig-zag rationalizing over analyzing. but i know love is the only nourishment that truly feeds. meditate. get on your prayer mat. what comes next? there’s no relationship if u can’t relate to me deeply, if u can’t recognize me in all my splendor and express my light to the sun. i’ve removed all masks. i’ve removed all clothes. i’m naked. i’ve shown you all of me-deepest darkest insecurities turned goddess of love beauty music and ecstasy. what will become of us??

i sang to him and he was moved profoundly.

i called out to him and he replied conscientiously.

i danced for him and he became my drum.

i wrote him lines and he authored me a sonnet.

i looked in his eyes and saw God staring back.

i gave up a man who loved me and he exiled  women of negativity.

i cooked for him and he savored every flavor with gratitude.

i offered myself to him and we became one.

i declared my love for him to the world and he expressively showed the world that i was his world.

i created years for him and he promised me lifetimes…

get SPARKed this Friday night!

 

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i.n.l.o.v.e.

today i went to the beach with my love… and i was thinking of the craziness that love is… and how it’s the strangest things that we appreciate about the people we love… like today, dre used his hands to create a sun-dial to see what time it was… (i believe this came from his boy scout days)… i love that! it was the most amazing thing i’ve ever seen him do.  and in the car on the way home we were listening to Salt-n-Pepa’s “Push It” and he was like “listen…listen to the cow bell… that’s what makes the song sexy.” lol!!!!! those are the things that years from now i’ll look back on and smile. or the other day when i had all my jewelry out on the counter that i had worn the night before and he turned the pieces artistically into a smiley face… or the times when i’m sad and he’ll slow dance with me to no music. nothing is perfect. no one is perfect. but love is perfect.. even within the imperfection of us as human beings… our love is perfect.

“i love u the way billie bends her notes- fearlessly… and with loving intention, i gaze at u the way stevie sees music… and with feeling in amazement of ur genius, i dream of u in a level of consciousness that the enlightened monk meditated for years to find… my heart recognized ur soul and it was love at 1st encounter...” from my diary date unknown…

random thoughts on the sacred marriage

To be honest with you, marriage used to freak me out a bit… maybe because of witnessing my parents’ dysfunctional marriage.. or the fact that I truly perceive marriage as a forever commitment and the most influential woman in my life, my mother, has been married 3 times in her life… or perhaps because it seems amazing to me that two people can choose to live their whole entire lives together and keep growing and learning and loving and fighting and living and being…together… it’s just such a beautifully massive commitment…or maybe i was brainwashed by the media…the American perception of marriage is so f*cked…more often than not it seems the wedding is more important than the marriage… a plastic couple on top of a cake, and a dress, and check the box for steak or fish…and all too often the cinema (a massive force in our perception) views the bond as imprisonment, stale and passionless… and i LIVE for passion… but truly i believe that this sacred union can live and flourish in passion and love… partly because i’m an extreme romantic and partly because i’ve seen it in real life! -with my aunt and uncle, who are a true example of a sacred marriage… the way they love and work and flirt and make time and support and honor and grow with each other is beautiful! Now because i’m in a serious relationship and i’m of a certain age… people start asking “when are YOU getting married???” Marriage is a beautiful union but I’m enjoying where I am right now… I know girlfriends that are feeling that pressure of making that commitment or feel that they should be married or engaged or in a serious relationship, but truly everyone has their own path and there is beauty and fun and lessons in each situation-married, engaged, single, in a relationship.. wherever you’re at… oh and i’ve found that the best answer for couples that keep getting that probing ? of when they’re getting married is “I’m just enjoying being in love.” Don’t let anyone influence your path or what you know is right for you. I digress… In the current book I’m reading Aphrodite’s Daughters I love the way Bonheim explores the sacred marriage… “As a form of spiritual practice, relationship practice engages and transforms the ego more radically than any other discipline.” I find it interesting that she claims marriage is becoming even more a spiritual union than before, “our marriages are less simple and secure than those of our mothers and grandmothers. What people like us are trying to do has never been done. Certainly our parents were not trying to achieve that level of honesty and consciousness and intimacy. We are pioneers. I feel guided by a force greater than ourselves, as if the planet were asking for this. We are evolving toward greater realization….Today, spiritual evolution is no longer the privilege and intention of a tiny minority. Our species is poised to leap into a new level of consciousness, it is affecting us in a major way and even changing the function of our marriages.” Interesting…

And then she explores what it takes to keep this union together… “Before committing to marriage, we might ask ourselves no only whether we love and trust the person, but also questions such as ‘Do I see the god in him/her? Can I see beyond his/her most infuriating personality traits to the sacred depths of his/her soul? Does he/she honor and evoke the goddess in me?‘ Even when our initial answer is yes, sustaining this vision over the years usually demands a tremendous amount of inner and outer transformation. Often married couples fail to realize how much attention and nurturance the sacred, transpersonal dimensions of a relationship require to stay alive. When a deep passion comes our way, it appears to have such a strong life of its own that we easily forget what a fragile, tender flower it actually is. Once planted in the soil of everyday life, it will wither and die unless we nurture it with constant and careful attention. The daily routines and the inevitable compromises and the resentments that build up can wear away that passionate spark. In a long-term marriage the trick is to keep that wild, undomesticated aspect alive.” I love the idea of marriage being an ADVENTURE!!!

The author also touches on the importance of sexuality in this sacred bond… “Like mediation and prayer, marriage is a time-honored path of transformation, a way of transcending our narrow, ego based identity and developing compassion. However, the difficulties of this path can be so great that even soul mates might eventually give up in despair, were it not for the aching sweetness of their sexual passion for each other. Sexuality is the glue that keeps the lovers together, the sweet carrot that keeps them going when things get rough. When passion endures over a lifetime, we can be assured that the relationship answers to a deep need of the soul.” Sexy and sacred. I love that!

wishing you many adventures in love…

photo by Megan Finley (www.meganfinley.com)

what lives and what dies

today i visited with Dr. Wolf and she said something of such value to me…”what lives is what we put our energy into.” when we decide to put energy into our dreams, our friendships, our love relationships, ourselves, or whatever else we value- those are the things that flourish… but for some of us it’s difficult to take an honest account of how much of our energy we are exerting towards the things that we want in our lives… we have to be honest with ourselves… what is truly important? and are we giving energy to what we value?

 

 

 

celebrating INTERDEPENDENCE

though the two books i’m reading at the moment “Aphrodite’s Daughters” and “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” differ greatly on subject matter (one is about how a woman’s sexual experience affects her spiritual unfolding and the other is a super famous guide on personal change)… they both touch on the importance of INTERDEPENDENCE. our society is very focused on being independent- which is a beautiful thing! however, Covey (author of “the 7 habits…”) challenges us to think in a new way- to create interdependence (not dependence where you must completely rely on others for your needs and wants) as interdependent people “combine their own efforts with the efforts of others to achieve their greatest success.”  he even goes as far to say that interdependence trumps independence as a more mature and advanced concept because to be interdependent you first must be independent yet your realize that even at your best you can accomplish more together than alone. Also, as emotionally interdependent, one can “derive a great sense of worth within, but also recognizes the need for love, for giving, and for receiving love from others.” “As an interdependent person, one has the opportunity to share oneself deeply, meaningfully, with others, and have access to the vast resources and potential of other human beings.” Interdependence is a choice only independent people can make… interesting…. on the spiritual tip we can relate this to the power of the collective love energy we all share and are connected by…

Bonheim (author of Aphrodite’s Daughters), touches on the subject in the form of partnership… “as children, we used to play a game called tunnel. We would get down on our hands and knees, side by side, forming a tunnel with our bodies. Then the last in line would detach from the tunnel and crawl through the dark passageway of whispering, breathing, laughing bodies. At other times we would play leapfrog, vaulting over each other like drunk grasshoppers. In such games, children enact a basic truth. We are all tunnels, doorways, thresholds, and stepping-stones for one another. We evolve not in isolation but in community, each person taking off with the help of many others. Partnership is an adult from of leapfrog. In our time of exaggerated individualism, it reminds us that there are certain types of gateways and tunnels and bridges we can create alone, and others we can create only in conjunction with others.”

so as a very independent woman, i’m consciously celebrating my INTERDEPENDENCE!!!!

maybe we should create an interdependence day?!

interdependent ladies (me with the lovely Aneesah Williams)

TONIGHT Afro Funke with Quetzal Guerrero & The Warriors

Excited to sing with Quetzal Guerrero tonight @ Zanzibar! The band is incredible! Come dance with us

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Afro Funké
WEEKLY FUNK INVOCATION
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Afrobeat, Brazilian, Dub, Reggae, Cumbia,
Samba Disco, Batucada, Afro-Latin House,
Indian Beats, Makossa & other deep-rooted
Funk music from around the world
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OCTOBER 22, 2009

Arizona Native, Quetzal Guerrero, whose name means “precious feather” in the ancient Aztec-Nahuatl language, began his musical explorations at the age of four. As a child, he studied classical violin at the famous Suzuki International Institute in Matsumoto, Japan as well as at the Conservatorio Pernambucuano de Musica in Recife, Brazil. Through the years he has become an outstanding multi-instrumentalist and performer, fluid with his voice, violin, guitar, and percussion.

Quetzal’s art, much like his Native American, Mexican and Brazilian heritage, bridges many cultures and styles. The result is both familiar and fresh to the listener, offering an unassuming yet explorative convergence of styles and influences spanning, but not limited to Soul, Jazz, Brazilian, Salsa and Yoruba music. A consummate and electrifying performer, Quetzal exhudes a brilliance that is both precious and rare. www.qviolin.com