"You destroyed me," Prunella said. Huh? I usually heal, not destroy.
We'd met when I gave an impromptu lecture at the Natural Energy Centre in Barbados in December. When I returned in January, we enjoyed blackened barracuda at the Barbados Hilton.
"Those photos on your blog about our mystical lunch. I've been lying low, out of sight. It's terrible. You destroyed my privacy." Oops, I usually ask permission. "People in Barbados know me now. Because of your photo!" My friend smiled. Phew, she's cool about it. "Now I've got to show everyone I exist." Ah, so that's the angle. She's a good healer and therapist, with a sweet angelic soul, but she's shrunk from being known as brilliant and talented.
"Have you read Marianne Williamson's spiritual poetry?" I asked.
"No."
"Nelson Mandela used a poem in his inaugural presidential speech. He asks what service you do the world by shrinking away from others."
Prunella agreed. "Yes. That's what I was doing. Shrinking away from others. Your photo made me come out. I might even have to do my soul work!"
"May I pop that on my blog too?" She just smiled broadly and nodded. Maybe I did destroy her - her playing small - and now she can let her own Light shine.
PS - Nelson Mandela's speech poem. Is it inspiring...?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
We'd met when I gave an impromptu lecture at the Natural Energy Centre in Barbados in December. When I returned in January, we enjoyed blackened barracuda at the Barbados Hilton.
"Those photos on your blog about our mystical lunch. I've been lying low, out of sight. It's terrible. You destroyed my privacy." Oops, I usually ask permission. "People in Barbados know me now. Because of your photo!" My friend smiled. Phew, she's cool about it. "Now I've got to show everyone I exist." Ah, so that's the angle. She's a good healer and therapist, with a sweet angelic soul, but she's shrunk from being known as brilliant and talented.
"Have you read Marianne Williamson's spiritual poetry?" I asked.
"No."
"Nelson Mandela used a poem in his inaugural presidential speech. He asks what service you do the world by shrinking away from others."
Prunella agreed. "Yes. That's what I was doing. Shrinking away from others. Your photo made me come out. I might even have to do my soul work!"
"May I pop that on my blog too?" She just smiled broadly and nodded. Maybe I did destroy her - her playing small - and now she can let her own Light shine.
PS - Nelson Mandela's speech poem. Is it inspiring...?
“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It's not just in some of us; it's in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.”
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