Collette O'Mahony's Blog, page 9

We are One

I cast you out like a shadow into the world. You boomeranged back to me in the form of a man in pain, coiled up in his past, seeking the feminine in every face and gesture, haunted by the absence of the inner woman of his soul.

I was too blind to see that you were in me and that I was projecting you onto the outer world. You spoke to me in a language I could not understand and so you translated it into a loud noise in my mind, shouting through the outer man��� ���I am here���. How many times have you screamed at me and I have been deaf to your cries?

What I cannot accept within me I have lost to the world. It returns to me as a hostile entity because of my resistance. I could not bear the pain I had to feel in order for my inner man to return to my heart. ��I rejected you, my other wing and flight of my soul. I became one-sidedly woman and lost you in the world outside of me, seeking you in every face and in every dalliance doomed to failure, because you were absent from my heart. You held up a mirror of truth and I could not look, because looking in it meant that I had to feel every hurt in the canyon of pain between us.

But now the scales have fallen from my eyes, in tears that melt the roles that divide us. I have played the role of woman, you have played the role of man. We are both masculine and feminine. Together we are the truth of creation. We are one.

~ Collette OMahony

�� February 2015

image; Alla Sviridenko

Inner Man & Inner Woman

There is both a male and female aspect within each of us. Our being consists of masculine and feminine energy. They are the negative and positive of human consciousness. These polar opposites have different perspectives and views on life.

When we are over identified with either inner man or woman, the other side remains underdeveloped and unexpressed within our psyche. Outer relationships are a mirror of the communication between our inner male and female side. It reveals to us which side is dominant and which side is submissive.

Our relationships with an outer man or woman are a mirror of our own inner masculine or feminine energy. Any encounter with an outer man or woman, triggers a conscious or unconscious comparison with our inner masculine and feminine. If there is a close vibration to our inner man or woman, we may naturally form a deeper bond. We refer to this as falling inlove on the outer level. On the inner level the underdeveloped energy is seeking a way to strengthen and harmonise with its opposite body of energy.

Relationships are a developmental dance between our inner man and woman. It is a dance between intellect and intuition, between activity and silence, between mind and spirit, between force and receptivity, and between control and surrender. An over-development of the masculine side leads to ego and separation. An over- development of the feminine side leads to dependence and passivity.

Embracing our own inner masculine and feminine allows us to understand the inner drama that happens between our male and female aspects. This plays out for the outer man and woman in close relationships. When we bring understanding to both inner masculine and feminine energy, we come to realise that outer relationships simply mirror the relationship between our inner man and woman. This awareness gives us the opportunity to take conscious responsibility for our choices and take further steps towards spiritual maturity and unity.

The inner man and woman must develop their own independence and integrity. When both the inner man and woman take responsibility and live their own truth, love and compassion naturally flows between them. Healing between our inner man and woman allows love to flow between them. To tap into our own inner source of love, we need to embrace both masculine and feminine aspects within ourselves. When both aspects are developed and integrated, feelings of love, joy, harmony, creativity and wholeness arise within us.

The inner woman is the capacity to surrender to life. The inner man is the capacity to experience life. Without him she exists not, without her he is unmanifest. Both require each other for the fullest and most rewarding experience in life.

~ Collette OMahony

�� 2015

Observational Presence

Observing the mind is the first step on the path to freedom. Initially this will be a difficult exercise because the habit of interfering in the working of the mind is automatic. It is easy to get swept up in the alacrity of thought patterns. It is essential to stick with the observation process, even when it throws up disturbing and difficult thought patterns, as it is essential in building spiritual strength. Little by little the soul���s trapped energy gets transmuted into pure spirit, or consciousness, through the process of observation. It is useful to point out that the observation process is watching the mentally created self���s thought patterns without trying to defend it, or deny it in any way. Thinking of ���me, myself or I��� is spiritual energy in the mind, it is energy in motion, or emotion.

The ego, which believes it is ���me and I���, tries to take over the process of transmuting emotional energy into pure consciousness. This is due to the deep conditioning and identification with the world of form. The fact that form is a result of energy is forgotten by a mind governed by ego. The ego may make several attempts to try and fix itself, in this scenario, the ego splits and the egoic conscience which defines right and wrong, will act as judge over its lower ego.

No ego means no self. It is a state of pure witnessing presence, allowing the mind to be as it is without any hint of interference or need to change that which is, within or without. The spirit at the core of the Being is alert and aware of its true consciousness.

~ Collette OMahony

Emotional Responsibility

Feelings are a response to an event, person or place around us. If we fail to respond to the event, we leave our energy feedback open to interpretation. We need to emote clearly if we are to let universal power know what allows us to feel joy and what causes us to feel pain. Confusion arises when we suppress our feeling through judgement saying ���I should or shouldn���t feel this way.��� Feelings are an honest response to any given situation. Response-ability is the key in aligning with universal power.

By trying to make others responsible for our feelings, we negate our response through feelings as inaccurate and untrustworthy. It is imperative to trust your feelings as true guidance. If we believe we have been unfairly treated, we may try to get the other person to take responsibility for their actions. In truth, it is up to us to take responsibility for how we feel about a situation, because it is our emotional reaction that holds the key to our power. It is our emotional response that makes a situation seem right or wrong, thought is just an interpretation of feeling. Feeling the emotion allows you to take responsibility for attracting the situation.

If a person behaves inappropriately, particularly someone we are close to, it can have an adverse effect on us. However many of us fail to connect with the feeling by remaining silent or shrugging it off as no big deal.��Refusing to feel an emotion��evoked by a person���s behaviour allows them, and others to continue treating you in a manner that is painful for you. Feeling an emotion evoked by those around you links you into the true response ability of universal power. This delivers a very clear message to the universe how you feel in any given situation. When you are clear about how you feel, your energy vibration elevates and attracts helpful situations and people aligned with true expression.

Emotional responsibility is our ability to respond to the world around us.

~Collette OMahony

He/She

They had waited for this moment for what seemed like eternity. She stood by the window looking out at the moonless sky, her inner radiance shining as a lunar equivalent. It occurred to him that at any moment she might drift off to join a star constellation. The emotions swelling inside him ebbed and flowed to her lunar tides. Her quiet reflection undid the logic of his mind and he stared blankly at the dark sky beyond her luminous frame.

A thought arose and fell on his lips. With one swift movement she was beside him and placed her finger on his lips. The questions he wanted to ask began to fade��� who was she, why she had come��� everything disappeared into the abyss. He looked into her eyes. No human face could conceal the mirror of truth. She was him, he was her. They were one. He kissed her forehead and sent out a silent prayer of gratitude for the return of his feminine soul.

~ Collette OMahony

Relationships – Fact or Fiction?

When we develop an intimate crush on a person, we see only fragments of who they are. The gaps we fill in with our minds of who we want them to be. This can be a two way street in the imagination, both parties seeking an ideal partner on a crossroads of desire and expectation. Any small sign that indicates the person fulfils one or more aspects of our mental criteria is enough for us to label him/her as the one. The rest of our wish list we project onto them. When we see someone standing at a point where we want to reach, be it spiritual, physical or emotional, we create little fantasies in our head and these seeds grow in our psyche, creating a role for the desired person in a huge act of reductionism.

Ultimately any relationship based on this premise is doomed. If we are invested in believing the fabricated story we have created for someone, parting ways can be like tearing strips of fiction from our skin. The pages of your combined story comes undone as you realise that he/she is a totally different person to the one in your head. You are complete strangers in your own love story.

Perhaps, at the outset if we pay attention to people and really listen to them, rather than how we choose to interpret them, we would feel their true essence. After all it is the initial feeling that attracts us to the person, if we rush in with needs and expectations we place a huge weight upon the other. Expecting someone to fulfil a role you place on them is a form of emotional blackmail. If they have low self-esteem or other emotional issues, they feel love is only shown when they meet the role, or conditions placed upon them.

When we see a person for who they are, accepting their light and shade, we can see them blossom in front of us. We grow in the light of acceptance. The natural characteristics of a person come to the fore and we realise that the Universe is truly the best author of our lives.

~ Collette OMahony

December 2014

New Publication – The Globe of Love

Dear friends and Readers,

I have just had the third book of my trilogy ‘The Rainbow Lights’ published on Amazon. It will be available on iBookstore, Nook, Lulu and Kobo over the coming days.

This third instalment of the ��trilogy is titled ‘The Globe of Love’. It follows the feminine aspect of a Globe of love & light through several human incarnations as it experiences separation from the masculine aspect of the Globe.

A Globe of love & light is the primordial energy of masculine & feminine energy. It is the purity of balance between these energies prior to their entrance into separate body forms on earth. Love relates to Feminine energy, Light relates to masculine energy. As the mind develops in each counterpart energy, they begin to drift apart seeking new experiences with other opposite bodies of energy. However, the evolution of consciousness ensures that the original pairing of masculine & feminine energy would always find their way back to the perfect fit of their twin energy. The human form allows each aspect of the globe to experience life in a three dimensional sphere as man and woman. By immersing themselves in their physical world and identifying with their physical gender, they come in contact with several other globes (souls) and feel the emotional waves that move through their being.

The Globe of Love follows both the human and spirit aspects of the feminine’s journey as her vibration lowers into separation consciousness, and her subsequent journey through the Rainbow Lights (Cosmic Mind) to remember her true essence as Love.

Feeling is the heart of the World

A person���s history is the culmination of egoic thought. It is the ego���s identity. A low vibration in the feeling body manifests as thought. Sustained thought becomes egoic self. Ego dictates lifestyle, material wealth, fashion and manipulates emotion to create a separate world. The social history of a soul entity eventually becomes too cumbersome to carry. It is at this point that the egoic loop between thought and feeling begins to unravel. On the outer level it may appear as though the person is having a personal crisis. The fact is that the feeling body can no longer support the dysfunctional ego and seeks a way out from under its oppression.

Once an intention is set to align with the Universe, events are orchestrated to bring feeling energy lost in ego back to unity consciousness. Thoughts are like a cloud dust arising from a stampede, temporarily impairing vision. When the dust settles everything becomes clear again.

Low vibratory energy clings to thought, believing that if it could just get through a difficult situation, the future will hold the answer to its dreams.��The wishful future is ���now��� dispersed through a cloud of dust. It is egoic resistance to accepting what is. The low vibratory energy feeding ego coils up in knots when the solution is rather simple��� Feel the pain to return to Love.��You cannot see who you truly are until the dust of thought settles.

The world cannot exist without thought.

Thought cannot exist without feeling.

Feeling is the heart of the world.

The world one experiences is governed primarily by feeling and secondly by the thought it attracts. If the world seems unjust and dysfunctional it is a reflection of inner feeling. No amount of thinking so called good thoughts can change that. If you do not face up to how you feel, the ���world��� your vibration attracts, will continue to create circumstances to release low vibratory energy. Identifying with the mental self, induced from pain, creates a victim mentality.��The world exists as a result of your feeling and thought. If your feeling is numb then thought has taken over and the imbalance creates the victim mentality. Reality is falsely perceived through a sleeping consciousness.

The current world you experience has no future or past, only a present, and that present is created primarily by the state of consciousness in the current of now.

~ Collette O’Mahony

Soul Communion

Men and women who we find attractive often have qualities we wish to emulate. They serve as catalysts for our under developed counterpart energy (masculine or feminine) to expand and grow. A man may find he is drawn to a nurturing, expressive woman who encourages his inner feminine to emote & express his feelings. A woman may find she is attracted by a wise and sensual man who encourages her inner masculine to channel wisdom and embrace her sexuality. It is the quality we admire in others that indicates the part of us that requires expansion and growth.

Each ascending level within us attracts its identical energy frequency that is required for soul expansion. Along the way we manifest reflections of both our empowered and disempowered consciousness. We must be able to continually step up the frequencies in our physical body and hold fast to our intention to align with unity consciousness.

We learn how to increase our capacity to extend love, and also to receive love. We develop our ability to hold a loving space for others when their energy dips into the lower chakras causing desire and expectation. Through compassion and honesty we encourage our counterpart energy to grow and expand to its full potential. Unity consciousness asks us to hold a space for each other as we make the difficult transition from human being to light being. We do not judge another soul when it shows its shadow side, rather we hold firm in our truth knowing it serves the other to raise their energy level.

Soul communion comes from honest communication between two souls. It is a willingness to put soul maturity as a priority. Bringing balance to our inner masculine & feminine energies, and the physical union of counterparts, stirs up a hot house of emotions. It highlights the most blatant expressions of polarity within our psyche. Intention for unity helps to navigate the old conditioned patterns of mind games, projection and avoidance. The unity of masculine & feminine, within the soul, plays out in duality consciousness between man & woman. Life in the physical realm is designed as a meeting and merging of opposite and complementary expressions of energy. We have chosen this human design as a way of knowing ourselves, so that we may return to an awareness of unity in which we love without condition.

~ Collette O���Mahony

Inner Twin Consciousness

Union between our inner feminine and inner masculine creates a harmony which endures beyond external circumstances. This inner balance is not a fantasy state where we stop engaging in, and nourishing external physical relationships. Rather we bring our inner fulfilment to a relationship. We no longer rely on others for our wholeness. We share this with them and do not place ownership on them. All souls require freedom to grow and be.

Mind is the formless energetic level of masculine energy. Spirit is the formless energetic level of feminine energy. On the super conscious level, masculine is Light and feminine is Love.

When imbalanced, one side will dominate our personality and the other side remains underdeveloped in our psyche. This results from our identification with the human form. As we become aware of our need to balance our twin energies, the under developed side will show up as lovers in our day & night time dreams, and as a result our longings increase. Certain individuals you come in contact with remind you of your under-developed side or inner lover. This under developed side shines through when another person reflects it. When this happens, you feel exhilarated, because it reminds you of your original love. The human vessel is still adapting to channeling high radiant love and it is a challenge to raise it beyond the lower chakras. It is frustrating when love is objectified and there is a need for the physical outer lover to complete us. Our intention to grow as conscious beings is paramount in helping us to discern those who serve as messengers for the inner twin consciousness, from the true twin consciousness in human form. We cannot fully embrace our inner lover or undeveloped side in the psyche until we stop projecting illusion and fantasy onto the outer lovers. When we put our intention to harmonize our twin energy at the core of our being, our inner lover will become clear and manifest outwardly in the appropriate way.

~ Collette OMahony