Don’t get lost in the shadows For they are not real An illusion obscuring You from the real deal Ghouls from the past Haunting your mind Inciting a riot That makes your actions unkind To create a new world Change is imperative You’ll create the same thing Unless you change your own narrative Take out your sword Let Truth be revealed Become Compassionately ruthless To those that would steal Your time and your energy Your precious resources For their own personal gain Instead of with you joining forces Be especially vigilant With your own special thoughts The why’s and the how’s The fears and the ‘ought’s For your Presence is waiting Beyond all dark clouds Give your attention to that Not the cloaks and the shrouds You've got this, it’s time For the Sun to rise For the light in your Heart To shine out through your eyes You have so much to offer This world, You are needed Heed Wisdoms words Floodwaters receded No one else can save you From your own mind Be a spiritual warrior Inside strength you will find To cut all the chords That bind your creativity Break free and live Your own ethics and integrity Rebalance the scales Of karmic injustice Make the choice now To trust in your Goodness Remember shadows aren’t real It appears fear of them is Convoluted creations From when your mind was amiss Do not run, do not hide Know your sword is your eye As your Presence is revealed All else dissolves and dies In Innocent eyes Each moment reborn Trust without doubt A new day will dawn ©️The Bendy Witch
I wanted to reference this poem in my Monday’s Meditation Cafe blog, Overwhelm & The Universal Nervous System, but realised I hadn’t posted it here yet, only on Instagram. I’m not exactly sure when I wrote it.. possibly 5 years ago. It’s a reminder to be vigilant about what we identify with in our mind.
We all have that self violent voice that tells us we aren’t enough. I used to believe it and I still hear that voice sometimes; I am still aware of self violent thoughts. The difference is that now, thanks to my Meditation practice, they are just thoughts, like any other thought. Where I used to meet them with fear and despair, now I welcome them with Love and Presence.
In Shamanic terms, repeated self violent thoughts become self created demons. See my old blog Why Demons Are Just Farts of our Mind. It’s quite an amusing read, however these special thoughts can take on their own energy form, as the repeating thought grows in strength and intensity, it feeds off the fear it creates until it appears very “real” and indeed it is to the mind. When we are under the grip of such an energy it is far from amusing.
Sometimes these demons or shadows, appear so real we can’t see beyond them. The most troublesome of these thought demons arise from unconscious death wishes seeking fulfilment. Often when an unconscious death wish is at play, we may start having lots of accidents and illness, we may be so stressed and burnt out that we have thoughts of wanting it all to stop and it is important that we make the distinction that we want the stress to end not actually our life.
Thoughts with deep feelings are programming our reality, the language we use, especially when talking to ourselves, deeply affects what we experience. It is these moments that we can’t “see beyond” the movements in the mind that may need external support in finding clarity.
A Shaman or Shamanic Practitioner can dis-create the energy form that has taken over. We are all quite capable of doing this ourselves with our Loving Presence and yet when we find ourselves in this place, it is because we have lost sight of our Loving Presence. We have lost ourselves to our thinking.
This type of work is often called “Shadow Work”. Last month I got to participate in a Shadow Dance in The House of Feathers yurt at Tofte Manor in Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire. It was the most beautiful experience and I thoroughly recommend it! They are running them monthly through the winter. I don’t want to say too much about it for it would spoil it if you ever go. If you feel a call for this please email sj@sarahjaynegrace.com for more details.
News Update: My Blue Star Therapies website is again live. I’ve started offering Shamanic services again in the form of “Soul Sessions” (in person or remote), so please check it out if you feel a little energy clearing is in order or you need someone (me!) to hold a light up in the dark, to guide you back to your Soul, your Loving Presence.
I’ve never been very good at blowing my own trumpet (or telling people what I do lol), but here’s what a lovely lady that came last week shared in a telegram group after her Crystal Soul Session :
Just wanting to share my amazement and adoration for this beautiful soul 🙏 and her wonderful gifts ✨ I had a super powerful session with Raye yesterday, and wanted to tell everyone as I don’t think many know what she does! So if you’re in need of a healing, get yourself booked in! 🙏🌟
If you are having suicidal thoughts and very conscious death wishes please please please reach out to the organisations linked at the end of this blog. Know you are Loved (even if you don’t feel it right now) and that help is at hand.
The Bendy Witch 
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