Be U: As Above So Below

Coming for the Real You.

I'm hoping to share thoughts, fun and insightful information and aha moments with all to better serve ourselves and the universe.

My background is that of Executive Secretary for the local Electric company (11 years).

Certified Personal Trainer (since 1991) and Fitness Consultant for my own company, Beachin Bodies (6 years) and certified in Reiki and Nutrition with training in Cranial Sacral work, Tai Chi, and Meditation. Certified as a Professional Life Coach (2015); Minister at Universal Life Church (2016);

and, possibly, most important,

my own journey through illness and avenues, roads and roadblocks that I have taken to find the real me. (35 plus years).

The me that I was born as. The me that is the all-knowing. I believe the search is endless and we are here to learn and to love and to share it all.

Saturday, August 8, 2020

As Above So Below

Outside the sky was offering its 'live entertainment' which had me thinking ‘As above, so below'. The clouds made up a low and deep navy blue band and the ocean was also offering a distinct and beautifully amazing deep navy blue horizontal line. It just felt soothing, empowering and beautiful with a bit of fun mixed in.

I started really wondering about this 'as above, so below' statement and what it was really about and did a bit of research. To me, it means what is above is also below. Mirror images of one another yet in their own profound way.

It was first seen in the Emerald Tablet created by a man by the name of Herman Trismegistus who founded Hermeticism, a form of religion/tradition/philosophy that is based on and explores nature, astrology, the soul, the human mind, alchemy, God and the universe.

The whole quote or verse is "As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul.." (Information from 'guardian-angel-reading')

Ooooh, I like it! I like it a lot... 'One' comes to mind. We are all as of and from one source.

Our soul is in the universe and the universe is in our soul.

There is something so much bigger than each of us that has a greater understanding, a greater connection and a flow that neither one human or all of us together can really know, understand, always thrive in or always live as. And, yet this greater than-ness is in each of us.

We can find ourselves in peace, love, acceptance and the 'zone'. I do not know anyone that can stay in all peace, all love, all acceptance and always in the zone. Humans are not supposed to or we would be doing so.

The human experience is to be above, below, within, without, soulful and not.

Wherever you find yourself; feeling whatever you are feeling, being what you are being, doing what you are doing, know that this is exactly how it is supposed to be just now for each of us or it wouldn't be so.

Things will always change. Our journey will always show us old and new feelings and ways.

Let you be so. Let you let you know your okayness even (or especially) when you do not feel it.

May you welcome 'what is' as nature, the universe, your mind and your soul and ask your heart to be present. I say this because when our hearts are present fully, alchemy happens in favor of ourselves, life, each other and the whole of everything that is.

I just read a few minutes ago, "The best love is the one that makes you a better person without changing you into someone other than you." Sharnie Jacobs Philander

This is the firm beauty, strength and way of the love that I wish for you. As above, so below, may 'awesome' touch you again and again and again.

You are beautiful and a part of everything that is touches you and you touch it.

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My Past Story

The first thing I would always tell a new doctor was 'my dad left me when I was 10'. He just disappeared, ran away. It was pretty awful for me. I thought it was my fault as most kids sometimes do. I thought I was unlovable. Years later, 20 maybe, I realized it wasn't just that my dad left me that affected my life, but also that my mom stayed. She stayed and I'll be forever grateful. However, her staying wasn't all peaches and creme. She was so hurt, so distraught, so frightened to raise three kids on her own and find a job that it was very hard for her to be there for me and my needs. I chose to shutdown, be quiet and try not to make it any harder on her as to not ask for much, or voice much, or need much.

Years later, in 11/12th grade, I noticed my fingers being really cold and hurting all the time. I noticed them turning purple and the pain was very 'loud'. Humorously enough, I had chosen to be a secretary and typing was a big part of my everyday. I loved it even. Fingers flying across the keyboard with as little mistakes as possible was the goal. I was pretty good at it. While in typing class, I remember putting my hands on my neck to try to warm them and make them feel better. I was naive enough then to think this must be happening to everyone.

Anyway, years went by and nobody was able to tell me why this was happening or what to do to make it better. Then, approximately 4 years later, I remember (what I felt) was little me sitting across from a really big doctor at his really big desk and him telling me I was allergic to myself. Of course, this was him describing to me what auto-immune meant. I had a disease called scleroderma and it could kill me (sometimes in as little as five years) and I would most likely be on medicine and have it for the rest of my life and there was nothing to change it.

Anyway, almost 30 years later, I've had my share of pain and I'm alive. I've had ulcerations on my fingers and I have lost most of my nails on both hands from lack of circulation and producing too much collagen. My hands are somewhat not a pretty sight and to hit something with one of my fingers by accident (well, I refer to the feeling as 'going to the moon).

When I was about 30, I started looking at alternative medicine and I tried anything that came across my path to try to stop the pain. I have tried many normal and not so normal 'ideas'. I sometimes do not believe at what lengths I went to try to ease my pain and suffering!

This is what has brought me here to this point in my life.

I'm grateful to be able to learn so much about myself and life and I wouldn't take it back (well, some days I might want to).

Something was telling me to blog. I really didn't know much about blogging - I am still a novice at best. Approximately 5 weeks ago, I sat at my computer and started typing.

I am surprised at where my blogs have led me. I thought I was trying to help others and that still is a big goal of mine. However, what I am finding out is that this is a great outlet for me.

A way to feel like I'm doing something. I told a friend this morning about my blog and I said that it's draining because I put everything out there and do not hold back as I post each individual blog; its fun because it does give me an outlet and I feel a little purpose in my life; and it's scary because I don't want anyone laughing at me or telling me that I am completely 'off my rocker'!