The Art of Fashion: My Own True Colours

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Do you ever wonder why I have so many photos of me in various outfits? (You'll see dozens as you browse around this blog and my websites!)

Well, it's not just vanity but a genuine delight in sharing my own creative expression with you in the form of my unique dressing art, my own True Colours!

Many have commented and complimented me on my dress sense, have encouraged me to start a design business and so on, so I thought I'd love to share a little background on how I use my flamboyant flair for dressing up as a celebration of spirit!

I take the view that when we celebrate our appearance and make Art out of ourselves we are into our Godhood. And I would like to show you how we can use even these 'credit conscious' times as a great opportunity to step into the dance and flaunt our natural abundance of spirit, teamed with our creative flair in dressing up to whole new level.

I emphatically feel that fashion, dress and accessories can be used as exotic tools and powerful aids in your journey of expressing "The Art Of You"; they can help you tap into and give you confidence to be the authentic and artistic you.

Just as Dorothy in The Wizard Of Oz putting on her red shoes helped her key into the ambiance of another world of her, I too use my love of colours to create great love and art out of me. Each morning I survey the palette of my wardrobe, all artistically arranged in different colours, textures and hues smiling at me, inviting me to take the plunge and play.

I see my accessories: beautiful jewellery akin to treasures glinting in the early morning light; handbags smelling of old well-loved leather with a hint of spice in gorgeous shades of regal red; emerald green or turquoise blue, bright harlequin scarves; silk ribbons glistening with jewel-like colours; feathers in all hues; leather thongs in rainbow colours - all begging to be played with, draped and swirled.

And so, like a great artist, I dive into the palette of my wardrobe, letting my spirit, my excitement guide me, rather than the limitations of what's 'in' or what a 'well-known' celebrity is wearing (unless that truly feels like me!) And even then, I will play my unique slant on it, giving vent to the wild, crazy in me as I seek inspiration from all round me, inside and out: my imagination, my fantasy, the colours in the landscape and in nature, or by indulging my senses and my lust for excellence in a fashion fest found in high class glossy magazines. This is how I rediscover my unique style each day, seeking and nurturing the authentic me and then by wearing my creation, I get to play out the real me for real!

Clothes and accessories pulled together in unexpected ways can be a sure pointer to the real you. Your selection of shoes, clothes, scarves, belts, tights, handbags and fragrance can be a joyful and fun adventure in announcing to the world who you truly are as you discover and make great art out of your appearance and allow yourself to take it to the limits

Just remember: how you dress should distil your personal style to its purest essence. So, either love wearing it or play with another colour or style. Or, by the judicious placing of an accessory in a contrasting colour that you love, like a tie or a necklace or scarf, you can really bring out the true beauty in you. And so, through my fun, I promote my love of dressing up to the realm of being a fashionista!

And so, in being an artist of the heart I feel it is imperative for me to live in the exaltation that beauty and art of our world is both inside cooking in our imagination and extrapolated outside into our physical world for us all to see and rejoice and celebrate in. The physical and the spiritual must not be divided, but allowed to infuse with each other; we are the artists, the inspiration and the art. This is my Art from my Heart and our jobs as artists and creators are to make great love and great art out of our lives.

I love ecstatically to share my true colours with you, my wonderful friend, in many ways which express my Soul, not only through my evocative, spirited, inspirational writings and the songs and videos of my love, but also through my own dress-art. Each day I create an entire artistic composition out of my harmonically chosen ensemble of garments and accessories...

Oh, and just for the record, although I do have a couple of expensive outfits, primarily, I so enjoy the thrill and adventure of discovering amazing garments, accessories and gorgeous designer dresses at massive discount prices (maybe even 90% off!) in designer discount outlets, or even total bargains in charity shops.

In a way, it can be like embarking on a great treasure hunt, an expedition into my soul as I go exploring for new gems to add to my collection. I may find myself leaving the familiarly and the mediocrity of the high street and taking swift right turn down a narrow cobbled alley, my excitement pulling me as I venture into a little shop that just caught my attention with a very unusual item in the window, like a hat reminiscent of an exotic headdress - all feathers and sparking jewels. On entering, I quickly become accustomed to the dimmed light of this Aladdin's cave of delight as I survey piles of beautiful fabrics: dusty satins, plush velvets with an elusive scent enrapturing my senses to another age or time. I have to be open to the unexpected, for then I do not miss an item - a belt, a bracelet, a brooch, which may capture my imagination, just because I allowed it. All this feeds my spirit, quenches my thirst for adventure and slowly, but surely, builds up the palette of costumery delights' that awaits me each morning.

Or I gaily join the hordes in my favourite discount store (TK-Max!) feasting on the row upon row of untidy, jam-packed, ridiculously priced-down garments. My glance quickly scans the territory, looking for the one, the one item that's calling me, that shines out at me, that's got my name stamped all over it. And then in a flash, it catches my eye: the colours are me, the style is so mine, it's even in my size; and then the price, well, what can I say, they're giving it away! It's a manifestational marvel - a miracle of materialisation! It's as though we we're destined to meet and it's love at first sight!

And so I fine-tune my artistic eye and my ability to scan lines of the mundane and sameness, looking for the beauty in the ordinariness, even in the junk piles. For I believe we come into our own as we extol and source the beauty in the mundane and the resources at hand, and that as great artists, this is our job and we should do it with passion. I certainly adore creating great art out of basic materials that at first glance may easily be dismissed as unworthy of my attention! However, if the material is gorgeous, or the cut and style is fantastic for me; or there is something about the colour that sings to my soul, then I grab it to add to my treasure chest. For example, I recently got the scissors out and learned some simple dressmaking skills and it was the beginning of a beautiful new relationship, even a 'romance' with my own artistic tailoring side. Now, when I find a dress or skirt that may totally unfaltering or simply wildly the wrong size, but it's made from a beautiful piece of material, I don't discard it, but honour it and take it with me (sometimes only for couple of pounds!) and then I culpably take it apart and restyle and fit it in my own new way!

Imagination and making the most of what's around and available is part of the creative process! One, day I discovered the joys and possibilities of dyeing! I had found a gorgeous pair of suede boots in a rather subdued shade of beige in a charity shop, whereas I have always hungered for a pair of purple boots. And so I dyed them a lush shade of Lilac with special shoe dye. And what an amazing effect from something so simple! I am often stopped in the street and asked excitedly: "Where on earth did you get those gorgeous boots?"

And so I've been building my wardrobe and accessory collection like this over the years, finding innovative ways to keep them visible and displayed for my daily play and artistic creation. And now my world has rewarded me with my own sacred 'walk in wardrobe', like a temple to the divine Dressing-up Goddess!


So, each day, time permitting, I linger lightly over my palette, allowing inspiration and combinations to compose themselves, juggling many options of colour, texture and style, until finally it's all hanging together there on me, like a painting in a mirror... yet still waiting to be finalised with a 'piece de résistance', a finishing embellishment of a scarf or piece of jewellery and a viola! - another gorgeous and distinctively coordinated new outfit has been birthed and I am wearing my own True Colours. And it's got my own unique 'designer' label on it!

I have metamorphosed into a walking Work of Art, as John calls it! Actually, I feel that my outfit IS me, and so the finale, of course, is wearing my art during the day in the joy and celebration of my life and of creation itself. I love to share my own True Colours with anyone and everyone, so I'll wear it all when I go out, down the road, in the supermarket, sometimes, even when I'm out walking! And even if no one's around I still love the joy of wearing my creation, as it exalts me to another expanded level of me, and that feels so good.

And when I feel fantastic my world feels good too: I see it reflected in another's happy eyes, in the smile of my beloved, the appreciation of a passer-by who says, shyly: "You have made my day", and we exchange heartfelt words of love before I silently pass on, leaving an echo of tinder to awaken their adventurous spirit.

Furthermore my partner, my love: Nature, seems to revel and love me even more when I feel good and display my own True Colours. I see nature itself, returning my celebration with its own display, becoming even more rich and verdant, with blousy wildness of rampant flowers, a sun that shines much more brightly and a sea that rises up meet me and move with me in my exaltation

And so dear friend, I invite you to pick up sticks and gather your adventurous and artistic spirit too, and start playing and making art out of your appearance and dress, every day, even in the smallest way: a touch of colour here, of flamboyance there - whatever makes your heart sing!

I promise you it will change you and have a wonderful ripple effect on you, your life and your relationship with your world.

And if you would like me to help you personally with discovering your unique style, your own True Colours: well that would be such a joy and pleasure for us both. I have designed a special service, uniquely tailored to you, whereby we spend a whole day together to help you transform your own style and find Your True Colours. So let's go and dance together in the streets of Truro or Falmouth, or I can possibly come to you. Read all about it on my website: http://loveandinsight.com/colours

And we thus will both become icons of inspiration.

Go on unleash the artful artist in you,

Your greatest fan,

LeelaLight
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Our Secret Lives

Do you too have a Secret Life? A Life that in some ways is more real than your everyday life? Maybe it's calling and you've yet to fully hear it, such as while you're deep in your sleep, whispering to you in your dreams; or perhaps it is speaking to you in the rustles of the leaves or the howling of the wind.

I would love to invite you today to explore your own secret nature and let the play and flow of your hidden self take you into a new realm of being you.

It just might be the ticket you have been looking for.

Let me give an example in the form of my own Secret Life: I have such an affinity and resonance with the Elementals. Elementals, or nature devas, are etheric, spiritual cosmic entities aligned with the elementary energies of air, earth, fire or water. Through Love, they transmute the etheric, the blueprint for nature, within their own beingness into a more condensed physical form, such the trees, plants, flowers and landscape around us.

So, when I look to the sky I become aware of the Elementals which are creating and holding the sky together and my heart soars on a melodic high; I feel myself being uplifted and airborne, becoming like liquid light: opalescent and sylph-like, my body is luminous light streaming outwards in every direction from my heart's radiant fire, as I reconnect with the Elementals as expressions of, as aspects, of my very own beingness.

I feel my heart's imperative and explosive joy as I sense myself as the light, wispy sylph being I am, taking light energy into my body, transmuting it into the physical form through the vibrations of my Love and Ecstasy and so sculpting and creating from the etheric blueprint for nature my own rich, verdant world. My own Elemental specialty is the plant world and the domain of sky, thus I am constantly experiencing how I am effecting the weather patterns and cloud formations, as well as the growth, blossoming and flowering of the plants in my world, and even nature itself.

I feel the air around me and inside me as it vibrates and oscillates with the possibilities of form and how I, as the element of Air, press towards the light, take it into my body in spangles of light, and through writhing in ecstatic joy and ecstasy it is released, weaved and condensed into plant form and the world I behold. Thus, I cry out in my blessed role: "I am a cosmic agent; I am the Sculptural and the Art Form."

As an etheric light being, I unfold myself and expand within the sound of music in our cosmos finding my Self-expression in the moving current of modulated air. I love it when birds fly through my air space with the beating of their wings causing the air to vibrate, adding harmonics to our cosmic symphony.

And so I, too, soar on the air waves, making cosmic music with my love and dance of the etheric energy out of my consciousness; the sky is my lover, other elementals, such as fairies and elves are my friends, and nature is my playground and there for my glorious caretaking.

Behold! This is my secret life, and I feel that my secret ethereal life is the real me... And, as I ride and fly in streams of light I am surfed up by my luminous life; it's intimately flexible, buoyant and brimming full of sparkling possibilities.

However, it's when I forget and fallout of my 'true me' state, I get myself into trouble: I begin to stall and plummet in my life and descend into chaos. Difficulty and challenge reign, and the rain comes and the wind blows and my world turns to pain ...

When this happens, I have learnt to stop trying to control my life, to 'sort it out' but rather, to simply reconnect again with that Secret Life, with the Real Me.

So I wonder, tell me about you? Do you, perhaps, have a secret life that’s more the Real You?

Would you like a little help to find it? Well, you can find your secret life too, by listening to your dreams, paying attention to your fantasies, listening to the messages that speak to your soul and passion, such as through movies, books or even something crazy, like an evocative advertising billboard or an unexpected road sign (I have one near here that reads under the town name of Penryn: Dreams, Bliss, Reality (and which had been damaged to read Dream is Reality!)). We all get messages from our secret lives all the time, we simply need to pay attention and not dismiss them for pure nonsense or frivolity. If something catches your attention or enlivens you, if it speaks to your heart and soul and makes you feel expansive, more loving and freer, then it's coming from the Real You.

Okay, now I know that my secret life may be a bit way out, but I wouldn't be surprised if you had one too; allow me to share what you may find for yourself.

For example, you may find that you have natural love and fascination of the fairy and elfin world, or indeed the fantasy realm of the Lord of the rings Lore; which may denote a secret longing to be like a being from these books.

Or maybe there's covert wizard or witch in you that seeks soul refreshment in Harry Potter books.

Maybe you are lover of adventure, expeditions and travel and you love to peruse through travel brochures or lose yourself in he excitement of adventure stories: denoting an adventurer at heart.

Or the call of the ocean sings your veins and you long to dive or swim in the world's wildest places.

Or you have an insatiable love for nature: allow yourself to dive into it and see how you would love to share the beauty that you see.

Maybe you love watching movies about super heroes revealing an innate desire in you to be an inspiration and do a great good for others by acknowledging your hidden gift and sharing what pulls your heart.

Perhaps you have a devout desire to express the Divine? Then allow yourself to give it a voice or an art form that is so naturally you...

Listen to your longings, your fantasies what you love to read, or watch in movies, your favourite TV program or character revealing a hidden aspect of you. Perhaps think of your adolescence and what you use to love as a child; often the forgotten or hidden longings point to our secret life.

The thing is not to take it too literally E.g. I have a love of detective thrillers, mysteries and unsolved crimes; which if I listen to my heart and gut is not so much calling to be in the police, but a desire to use my intuition to glean important information and to assist others which, at the moment, is being expressed in my Intuitive life Guidance.

So, the Art is to blend that aspect of you into your physical live by trusting your imagination and asking yourself: "I wonder what would be the way for me that is natural, easy and exciting to express this aspect of me in my life?"

For example, if your heart beats faster at the prospect then you are on track, or if you get the feeling that it expands your life and your relationship with yourself and your world, then you have hit the gold of your secret life.

I know how important it is to honour and cherish the true you, and to nurture, encourage and kindle our urge, our instinctive desire, to blend that part of us into our precious lives; thus expanding our world with our unique view.

And so I warm to you and your happy, joyful prospecting for your own Secret Life, and my heart beats with you.

All my love,

LeelaLight
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Let's run like wild horses

Hello Dear One

Do you believe in magic, dreams and miracles?

Do you long to gallop free on the golden sands, roll in the earth, kiss the cornflower blue sky and hug the silvery moon?

Well, giddy-up! Come with me down to the lonely sea and sky where our sprits fly and surf on ecstatic waves of our love, waves that roll and lap to the thunders of our hearts; washing us clean like Atlantic rollers ready for the next wave, the next beat of our pulse to guide us in the wind.

Let's make a scared pact at midnight; (a magical time when the boundaries between our dimensional experiences are thinner) to bind our hearts in love.

And pledge to give our soul to the wind of our freedom and say goodbye to the prison bars of mediocrity, restriction and cup-half-empty

Let's go to the leading edge of our soul's lament and venture into the wild, open wilderness of our heart' plains and gallop free; our mane and tail flying like a banner in the in the wind!

Let's kick up our heels and fly as we say goodbye to our fears and trade them for the excitement, the joy and the rush of simply feeling fully alive.

Let's stand together heart-to-heart and hand-in-hand; foreheads gently touching as we pledge our hearts to the Sun and our souls to the Moon.

Let's dissolve into our dream of ourselves as we ride on the quickening that’s our heart's salvation. We cannot hold onto control or stability anymore; the change, the quickening, the speeding up in our world is at hand.

To resist our momentum as we gather up speed is to resist our quickening, our metamorphosis into our light; we will become whole as we let go our attachment to normality and embrace the unpredictable, the wild unknown landscape of our infinite depths .. Chaos is our friend as we go through our purification and our fine tuning into purity of beingness: our freedoms to run and move like wild horses.

And so, I excitedly ask that you join me in this exciting idea and let's run like wild horses as we ride the quickening, as we venture into our ecstasy, the joy of riding the wind and the thrill of the pace as we sky dive into heaven's infinite spaces; allowing all the nooks and crannies in our being to be infused with love.

I feel that many of us Light workers are all going through our own personal crucifixations and resurrections right now in the form of our own personal greatest challenges. Some of us are very aware of this, some of us are not.

Our greatest fears, our deepest scares, are 'scars' on our being (or 'samskaras' - Sanskrit for the fundamental impressions left on the heart of an individual from previous experiences/lives). They are our own personal 'crucifixions' there to help us to embrace our true selves, and to be transmuted into our light: to help us become our own resurrection.

Resistance to this natural process will hurt us and cause us to lose much vital energy if we succumb to this habitual knee jerk reaction of holding back. For example, when we try to control our reality in a vain attempt to maintain some semblance of 'stability' we slip, we stumble, we falter, we feel pain and our evolutionary leap is disrupted. But our souls are champing at the bit now, telling us it's time to sacrifice our fears and limitations and go into the light of our Sun

By heeding our soul's calling and following the scent of our excitement we gallop into the wind, heads held high in pride, like warriors of the Heart, flying our emblem of Freedom, Beauty and Truth for all to see. We carry the badge of courage, love and honour on our chests : we are hearts of fire, pulsing our world into a new dimension.

Oh! Brave Hearts join me in the call of our Wild Spirits: our Freedom to live and love openly and limitlessly, and run like wild horses as we ride the waves of change into a new reality: a new world, a new way of being...

Fear is the great tyrant of ourselves laughing in the wind; we can ride and surf on fear or we can shrink back into half of ourselves, like cowering to ghosts in the dark when, truly, we are Knights of the Sun.

Come: let's ride the Wave into the Heart of the Sun!



Now, I believe there are signs of this dramatic shift all around us. For example, have you heard a strange sound in the air, like a great humming?

Listen carefully and you may hear it too - our Earth is awakening and sounds like this great humming are whirling and whooshing through our ears as we open ourselves to our higher, ecstatic frequencies. We will feel the humming intensify as we feel our world cracking out of its tight-fisted grip into holy 'wizzledom' (my own new word for a hybrid cross between: wizardry, wisdom and kingdom!)

And then it will shift into a great thunderous roar of rapturous freedom - our light bodies igniting, quenching like nectar our spiritual thirst.

Oh Yes! We love the great Roar of the Wave, calling us to open up and run with it, as we hear our thunderous hearts pounding.

We are reaching critical mass as we approach the marker of 2012. And by moving through the photon belt of our resistances to this or that (by embracing this and that within ourselves) we are becoming like liquid sun as we merge our past, future and now as one... We are remembering all the separated parts of us now, fusing together into one.

So, do not resist your momentum, your dream. Integrate polarity, your personal fears, crosses and separation from your Whole Self (Holy Self) by allowing yourself to be carried on the wave of your dream into the Heart's centre: our Sun, Our Unity!

Be wild and free my heart, my love, living as our ecstatic communion in our divine pulse: we are our next Dimension; welcome to the Fifth World.

In Waves of Love and Light
Leela

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Awakening Sleeping Beauty

Hello dear...

In every one of us there lies a Sleeping Beauty waiting to be awakened by the kiss of love.

However, instead of waiting for someone to come and storm the palace gates of our self-imprisonment and break into our soul, we must summon the magic power of our Authentic Self to break this cruel enchantment that has left us unaware of our own glory.

How did this arise, we wonder to ourselves?

The question itself invites our quest into the far reaches of our own magical story. Like the pages of a dusty, lightly battered, but well loved book, we backtrack to the origins of our heartache, turning the pages hungrily for our answer.

For me it was the loss of my "first love" to death that stained me with the curse of permanence of a love irrevocably lost into the mists of my past. It was a hurt so painful to endure; it cut so deeply into the quick of my soul.

In order to try and put a salve on this wound of my heart, I made myself numb to my own life, beauty and spark: a bit like pricking my finger on the spindle and falling into a deep sleep; this numbing 'sleep' has gone on for a very long time.

And so, some of us do become comfortably numb over something that happened, to freeze-frame us in a reference point for the rest of our lives, in my case to the timbre of: "I will not let my guard down; I will not let in Love."

Whereas, if we had understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune instead!

For example, if, as a young girl my first love had not died suddenly, I would NOT have pricked my finger on the spindle of heartache, I would not have seeked comfort in the arms of the etheric realm, nature, fairy beings, the elementals, devas and other dimensional beings; for they called me from my silent slumber in the painful years of my adolescence.


And so it was in the sanctuary of the scared groves of nature and in Holy Communion with Star Beings that I came into my life and thus set me on my Sacred Path.

So, within my tragedy, or 'misfortune', was hidden the impetus to put me firmly on the footpath to my purpose and on to progressively find my fortune, my own unique natural genius: To share a way of Light, especially when you feel all love is lost.

Subsequently, with the assistance of my guides (the 'great shining ones'), I began my quest to find out what makes us fall 'out of love' and how we can stay in love with ourselves, each other and our lives, no matter what...

All this has unfolded beautifully into my own unique art from of my heart, my sacred work: my passion in the form of my writing, courses, videos and the amazing light and dance with my beloved clients... and even in the sharing with you now in our precious moments together through these words .


And so dear reader, I wonder if you too just shut yourself down at some cataclysmic point of your life to help YOU find YOUR stroke of genius?

Perhaps your cruel enchantment was catalysed by peers who were incapable of love, overly critical parents or the devastating loss of a loved one or a beloved pet, or a humiliation that cut you to your core.

And you may have stemmed the flow of your bleeding heart by numbing your pain with all manner of devices, such as: alcohol, or drugs or food, or work....

In my case, I stopped eating and became anorexic for some considerable time in order to reduce my energy so much that I was barely alive, and so couldn't feel much. And, yes, I did find some blessed peace in that place, for a while...

So, I whisper to you now in soft honeyed tones of my love for you, melting away the sadness of our years into the exile of our silent prison, with the siren call arising from the depths of our soul, mouthing words of wonderment: "It's time to awaken your Sleeping Beauty."


One can never change the past; in fact, we truly don't want to, for it sets the seeds for our sacred path and our destiny. And, like our fairy godmother, we actually can wave the magic wand to see the good (or gold) in what we have experienced.

As we allow ourselves to make alchemy by casting the glorious light of a positive perspective on what we have experienced, we thus spin our misfortune into the pure gold of ourselves.

Sometimes, the most tragic experience in our lives was the very thing that we needed to set us on our way into our true Light and to find and express our own unique vein of gold.

We are our own heroes and I lovingly and empathetically invite you to write your own magical tale with an amazing and happy ending.

With Love from my heart,

Leela
PS Don't forget my Spirit Talk Radio show Sundays 5pm UK (12noon Eastern US time)
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Healing the wound in our heart and honouring our wild, crazy, free Self.

Hello dear friend,

Have you ever experienced being in the flow your life, just going about your business, when out of the blue (or is it the black!?) something totally unexpected happens that simply knocks you sideways and sends you into a spin of bewilderment, as you reel from the shock?

Well, such a thing happened to me the other day when I was in the flood of my ecstatic bliss and love - as I tend to be. I happened to be perusing through the comments of my video on You-tube, 'Into the Love of our being', when I caught sight of a rather jarring remark:

"You're not right in the head, are you?"

This simple remark was enough to hit its mark in my heart with the accuracy and precision of sniper rifle. It was as if I was hit by the resounding ricochet of a heartbreaking memory of a painful incident long, long ago and of its impact on my life ever since.

And so this hurtful comment sent me spinning back in time:

I remembered that I was in my early twenties on that fateful day. It was one of those beautiful hot, still summer days, with the scent of freshly mown hay lingering in the air, the hum of a tractor in the distance, and with a cornflower blue sky with a complete absence of clouds; except, that is, the cloud that was about to erupt in my life.

I was really worried about my close friend: I had never seen him like this; he was in the throes of the deepest, darkest depression I had ever witnessed. He had the haunted look in his eyes of someone who had lost all hope as he lay on the cement floor, dusted with a light coating of sand in our condemned home that we were attempting to make habitable.

I could tell as he tried to numb his feelings with yet another a bottle of Jack Daniels, that he was utterly desperate and truly close to the edge. I felt overwhelmed; I felt that if I didn't get help I might lose him -I loved him so much!

I was very young at the time and didn't know how to cope; I was really frightened and feeling desperate for my friend, so I did what I felt I should - I rang a close relative for help.

He dropped everything in response to my cries and pleas and rushed over, but when he saw my friend lying on the floor in a crumpled heap he assumed that because there was no pool of blood or anything like that that there was obviously nothing much wrong. Then came the unexpected: he actually turned on ME and lashed out with words to the effect of: how dare I call him when there was obviously nothing wrong, furiously lashing out at me with the bone jarring words, yes, you guessed it: "You're not right in the head, are you?"

I think he had had the impression that my friend was physically dying under a truck or something, But I truly felt that my friend was gong to do something crazy; I felt he was on the brink of taking his life that day if I hadn't done something and so I had reached out with a plea from my heart, only to be struck down and dismissed in my moment of greatest need!

And so those words were that day seared on my soul, and now again, recently, as I glanced with tears in my eyes at those exact same jibing words glaring at me out of the comments section under my video, I hear the same cutting words imbued with another's anger at me. For I am not just simply hearing the voice of my viewer, but the scream of my relative's anger ringing in my ears, as I vividly recall the very same thing said to me in a fit of fury, with that flag of hatred flashing in their eyes. The flaming arrow of my close relative's contempt for me became an embedded truth for me, because it came sealed with the passion of his rage and the peak of my pain born out of that momentous moment and the severing of our Love. And so, a part of me died that day as I cut off my connection to my family and the idea of ever asking for help.

I knew in that moment he had cut me out of his heart forever and it left an indelible scar in my being; always lurking, it had to come back and haunt now me by a causal cutting YouTube comment.

I find it very strange that, despite the majority of comments to my videos having been awesomely appreciative, awestruck and enlightening and that I have also had a fair number of abusive and some downright unmentionable comments to my videos, that it was this one that really hit me where it hurts.

I wondered about this and why I had such a strong reaction to the comment and I realised that, because of the connection to my painful youth-hood experience, I had convinced myself it was actually true!

The wound has always been there and I know that as I go into more and more love of myself and this our beautiful world, those parts of me that are held down in pain and denial come up to meet me, to heal and be integrated into my being and into Love.

And so I sat down and felt and embraced my pain in my heart; it really was a wound in my heart, a searing hot pain like a knife cutting deep. I opened my soul and my body to feel it all, without backing away or denying it. After the first flush of intensity, the pain dissolved, as I felt it without resisting it. In that moment of non-resistance, acceptance and melting, I felt love and then healing as I saw the light of this experience.

Then I felt a tremulous tremble, like a spirit-quake in my being, as these words came whistling in on the voice of my soul:

"To believe in your passion, your love and your vision is to honour yourself.

"To live it, even when you are ridiculed, is to be in Exaltation!

"Go and soar freely like the wind!"

As I took this to heart, in that moment of healing between the rift of normality and the extraordinary, it was if the sun had come out. I realised in that golden momentous moment that my purpose in life is to be real and be authentic to myself: to share my passion, joy and unconditional love in my open and wild and wacky way!

Now, this may be stretching the boundaries of what is comfortable for others, and if for them that means I'm not 'right in the head' then yes, from their point of view, they're right!

However, I would prefer to be considered crazy rather than normal, for in the expanse of my free mind I feel the possibilities of new frontiers of being and living. I feel that ecstasy and love is our natural state of being, and so I revel in my natural ecstasy and love and am prepared to be in that natural, but unusual, place with others, even on YouTube!

And I bow and pay homage to my friend and his 'sharp' comment (he calls himself Blade004) and say thank you for reminding me of my preference to be wild , free and crazy and full of love, in preference to be 'normal' in my head!

I feel so grateful to Blade004, for without his cutting remark, I would not have got so in touch with the wound in my heart and so heal this part of me, thus enabling me to embrace the wild, wacky and loving me even more fully as my gift to our world.

Isn't that delicious, freeing and wild: allowing my mind to be free of the restraints and limitations around conformity that typically dog us?

I remember a comment on another YouTube video where someone had said that I share my love so shamelessly and honestly, and I do know that when I share my love, ecstasy and passion so freely and openly, I may be stretching the boundaries of what is comfortable for others. However, I feel deep in my soul that we all need people in our world that push the boundaries of what is considered normal and possible and that's not crazy: that’s genius.

We all have genius. When we dare to express what is uniquely us and let it flow we are in touch with that genius. And my own daring genius is to share the idea that living in Love and Ecstasy is natural - and that's okay!

And so yes, some will say I'm crazy and out of my mind, and I say to myself: "Thank them deeply for they are showing you the way of your truth: that is your unique self. Thank them for helping you affirm what is natural, even if not 'normal' in you... Revel in your extra-ordinariness."
And I say to you too: "Honour and love the crazy, brilliance of yourself: it's what makes the unique you and is the seed of your unique gift to our World."

Hallelujah

All is love,

Leela
PS Don't forget my Spirit Talk Radio show Sundays 5pm UK (12noon Eastern US time)
Next show airs: (time shown is YOUR local time!)


I do hope you will join in, there's detailed guidance on my website at:
keysofascension.com/show You can download previous episodes too!

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Take a trip into Spring Equinox Magic

Come take a 'trip' with me to celebrate the Spring Equinox in a unique, Psychedelic Style!

Here is a potent and joyful video to help you soar on the wave of magic and Light that IS the Spring Equinox - to usher you into more light, love and ecstatic joy of yourself.

You may like to watch the video below in stunning HD (High Definition) instead
- click here to watch in large screen High Definition at YouTube!

I truly hope that, as we face the increasing light of our sun, you may use this video to see this light as a reflection of our own growing and expanding Light, and to let yourself shine even more brightly than you've EVER dared before, as a radiant sun in your own right blazing throughout your precious life and our entire world.

Let's focus on our impeccable purity of being in love and light.
Ride the airwaves with me on a glorious sunburst of exquisite delight assailing and setting our senses a-dazzling (that's through BOTH the video AND the Spring Equinox!)

And so, by our ecstatic exaltation, together we oscillate our Earth into more and more Light.

We spin, we rock we shine our Earth into Ascension now!

Our Light leads our way now, and perhaps this new video will too?



Again, You may like to watch this in HD (High Definition) instead
- click here to watch in large screen High Definition at YouTube!

In our ecstatic love and light,

Leela

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Announcing: Living In Light course in Cornwall

Hello again my friend

I am overjoyed to announce that I am now running live courses again, here in glorious Cornwall: Living In Light.

For all the details (AND this video that's below), head straight on over to loveandinsight.com - see you there!

In our ecstatic love and light,

Leela
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Video Love Invocation: Into the Love of our Being

Hello dearest Friend,

It is with joy and love that I share the potency and passion of this, my new video: Into the Love of our Being.

I must confess that it took me to such an awesome place of light and ecstasy just filming it! And in the resounding love-quake it stirred in me I got to the heart of something that I really needed to get in touch with and feel within myself in order to go into even higher echelons of light and love.

Perhaps it will stir up strong emotions and feelings in you too.

If so, I would love to hear your experiences, whether mad, glad or exceedingly high!


Enjoy my video:





In our ecstatic light,

Leela
PS The photo is taken on the decking area of OUR NEW HOME! See more pics at John's fabulous flickr.com photo page (first set there):
flickr.com/johnjamieson/sets

How we can use Contrast in our lives to help us into our Dream

Hello dearest Friend,

Do you ever feel frustration or discontent when you feel you should be experiencing Love?

Sometimes we will be facing the full gamut of pain, restrictions and discomfort in our lives, and these appear to be the exact opposite of what we feel should be happening for ourselves and our world: our lives feel distinctly out of tune with how we feel we truly are, like a discordant cord that needs re-tuning..

Now, here's my message: this is perfectly normal and isn't a sign that that we are 'losing it' or failing in some way. No, far from it; it's actually cause for celebration and exalted revelry!

For, all this contrast is a gift; it is your 'divine discontent', showing you the way of your Sacred Self and your true Desire.

For out of this kind of contrast in our lives, we can see with greater clarity what we truly want and desire. We can gain greater clarity, understanding and focus as to where we are heading.

So let's give ourselves a pat on the back for any discomfort, frustration or limitation we may be experiencing, for it is showing us the way of our Soul and what we truly love and how we wish to live.

And just by being our love and dream, by imaging it, living it out and acting as if, and knowing that All-Else is unreal for you, you will be blown away by what happens: your life (which is 'you' in manifestation) will come to meet you with the most amazing outcome! You will have given birth to a new experience of yourself. You may even find yourself swooning in gratitude for the gift of contrast in your life, a gift that shows you what you really want and love!

From this elevated point of view we can see clearly for miles and miles and miles!

(the view from the end of our new road!)

All my love,

Leela
PS Next time I write to you I will share with you an exquisite example of how we recently used contrast to give birth to our Dream in the form of our dream home!


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Video Blog: Learning to Love

Hello dearest Friend,

I am so bubbling over
with unbridled joy
to share
and make a deep
and eternal connection
with you through this
amazing short video:
" Learning to Love".

It is an elixir of awakening,
a taste of joy that may
leave a fingerprint of delight
upon your heart
and send you waltzing in love
as you go about your day.

All in love and boundless appreciation,




Enjoy my video:

Again, I now have a video channel at YouTube, where you can easily see all my videos, read lovely comments (and please DO add your own), and even give your own 'Star Rating' -
http://uk.youtube.com/user/LeelaAscensionAngel
(or comment on this blog just below...)

All in love,
Leela

KeysofAscension.com (FREE Personal Ascension video and attunement!)
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TheOmegaShift.com (free online 'Secret of Enlightenment' video!)