Phoenix Rising

Mother's empower your daughters.  Empower them with a strong sense of self.  Teach them how to walk outside in the forests and not get lost. Help them read the landscape, to identify where they are in the context of the realm of the great outdoors; where every tree-top looks the same, teach them how to pinpoint their exact location by connecting with their own awareness. To gain perspective.

Teach them to observe. To use all their senses. To describe the rocks on the forest floor, markings on trees, plants, flowers, walls, the smells, to feel the roots of the Earth rise and dip 'neath the soles of the feet as they are guided down a path. Teach them to open their senses, beyond what merely the eyes can see. Teach them to look at the shadows, a squirrel, to listen for the sounds of the rushing river. They must learn how to trust their gut, their heart, their intuition. To believe.

Mothers teach your daughters to embrace the great-unknown, in the force that cannot be seen by the naked eye but felt by the rhythms within the heart. Deep inside the veins, a heart that palpitates quickly.  A message?  A warning to flee or a chance to rise? They must learn how to be confident and trust the way their blood courses through their veins from their very core down to their toes and then back up as it rises to their crown.

It emerges as fire, tingling their skin, burning.  The more the sensation is denied, ignored, suppressed, the more brightly the fire within them burns. Will it combust internally and be self consuming or become a beacon of hope, light with fire burning so bright that no fire hydrant can extinguish for its source is eternal love.

Like a phoenix rising from the ashes the confident woman will grow. She'll emerge and spread her wings to face life with a profound sense of certainty and trust.  She'll learn to trust herself, her accomplishments and her truth with humility. The knowledge gained will not perish along with her but will rise again in the very same flames that gave her life.  So much of our time on Earth is dedicated to cultivating the mind that all too often the heart goes on...beating, underdeveloped, undervalued.

A blip on the screen, measured by electromagnetic impulses, a beat. Nothing to measure how much it has given, how much it can hold or how broken it is. Now is time to shine light upon that which cannot be ignored, that which cannot lie to us, it is time to develop the heart. To trust it.  It is time to let go of the logical equations of the rational mind and live accordingly to the way the heart.

Let go of the old ways like launching a bunch of helium balloons in flight.  Light and free...gone forever, in the blink of an eye.  All we have is here and now.  A short time, here on Earth. A time for trust.love.bonds. Connections to help one-another get through the drudgery and victories of life without judgement and with love and respect.

Honest and true to ourselves and each other.  Mothers raise your girls to trust in themselves.  To depend on themselves.  To have a sense of value that is not based on any other. To know they are capable of not only surviving independently but thriving and having abundance. It takes a strong and vibrant community to build a sustainable future.  It takes a village to raise a child and as individuals we have our strengths and deficiencies.  Yet when connected together as a community we become whole again, complete.

A phoenix rises and falls by the way of the ashes just as the sea rises and falls with the ebbs and flows of the tide.  So is fleeting self esteem of our girls. Mothers stop tearing one another down and begin to build up your daughters. Our communities are built on the goodness of our women and will flourish sustainably when we stop tearing one another down.  Build support by means of self-reliance and courage will echo in the breeze "all because of a mother's love."