Dancing the Universal Dance

Dear Friends.........
It's Tuesday, the day before World Unity Day, and I sit in contemplation of what is taking place around me. The best it can be described is, the Universal Dance!

I see people moving this way and that way, some struggling to make the next move, others moving with the grace and elegance of a dancer. It seems to be quite easy to move into the mode of fear and frustration if this dance isn't going as planned. What if we could take just a moment and stop and just BE. Be in the Universal Dance. BE One with all that is. Just to surrender and allow the dance to take form.

This dance will help you to embrace the darkness, as well as the light, that resides deep within. We can't have one without the other! It's seeing the beauty that lies within yourself and humanity. It's transforming the judgement's into unconditional love. It's loving yourself just the way you are.

So the question is, what does your dance look like? Are you dancing gracefully through the change or are you fighting and kicking the whole way? Are you taking that next breath into the next great step into the infinite pause?

I share with you from one of my favorite authors, Oriah Mountain Dreamer.
It's called "The Dance":
I have sent you my invitation, the note inscribed on the palm of my hand by the fire of living. Don't jump up and shout, "Yes, this is what I want! Let's do it!" Just stand up quietly and dance with me.

Show me how you follow your deepest desires, spiraling down into the ache within the ache, and I will show you how I reach inward and open outward to feel the kiss of the Mystery, sweet lips on my own, every day.

Don't tell me you want to hold the whole world in your heart. Show me how you turn away from making another wrong without abandoning yourself when you are hurt and afraid of being unloved.

Tell me a story of who you are, and see who I am in the stories I am living. An together we will remember that each of us always has a choice.

Don't tell me how wonderful things will be ... someday. Show me you can risk being completely at peace, truly okay with the way things are right now in this moment, and again in the next and the next and the next.....

I have heard enough warrior stories of heroic daring. Tell me how you crumble when you hit the wall, the place you cannot go beyond by the strength of your own will. What carries you to the other side of that wall, to the fragile beauty of your own humanness?

And after we have shown each other how we have set and kept the clear, healthy boundaries that help us live side by side with each other, let us risk remembering that we never stop silently loving those we once loved out loud.

Take me to the places on the earth that teach you how to dance, the places where you can risk letting the world break your heart, and I will take you to the places where the earth beneath my feet and the stars overhead make my heart whole again and again.

Show me how you take care of business without letting business determine who you are. When the children are fed but still the voices within and around us shout that soul's desires have too high a price, let us remind each other that it is never about the money.

Show me how you offer to your people and the world the stories and the songs you want our children's children to remember, and I will show you how I struggle, not to change the world, but to love it.

Sit beside me in long moments of shared solitude, knowing both our absolute aloneness and our undeniable belonging. Dance with me in the silence and in the sound of small daily words, holding neither against me at the end of the day.

And when the sound of all declarations of our sincerest intentions has died away on the wind, dance with me in the infinite pause before the next great inhale of the breath that is breathing us all into being, not filling the emptiness from the outside or from within.

Don't say, "Yes!" Just take my hand and dance with me.

With gentleness and joy, my friends, let's dance this dance together.

All my love,
Jean Kowalski

The New Dream

My dear friends,

On this, the 10th day since my return to this reality (So. California), very profound messages were presented to me today. An hour long conversation with a dear friend brought continued awareness to the importance that our emotions have on creating this new reality....or living the new dream. As we mirror to one another things that at times a little difficult to see and to feel, I have this opportunity to choose to allow my energy to linger in the "old" or now recognize the beauty and love that I am and step into my new space. I see where once the old emotions would cause great pain, though now I am able to see the strength come out of all the different situations. I have a choice, just as each of you do. As I look at one another and our world with new eyes, I feel the compassion.

Last night while reading The Divine Matrix by Gregg Braden....I came across the following: Gregg was in Tibet and sitting to speak with the new abbot of a monastery...... Gregg asks, "What connects us with one another, our world, and the universe? What's the 'stuff' that carries our prayers beyond our bodies and holds the world together?" The abbott answers, "Compassion". The deepest elements of the teaching suggest that in order to achieve compassion, we must approach a circumstance without a strong expectation of the rightness or wrongness of that situation's outcome. In other words, we must perceive it without judgment or ego.

Compassion........I feel that stronger than ever now after speaking with my friend. So can compassion help to heal the old wounds? Will compassion be the catalyst for healing the planet? Does compassion work even if someone is struggling? So many questions to explore.

Today, a profound and amazing YouTube video was posted on Facebook. So I sat back for 10 minutes to listen to it. I found myself getting teary eyed, though in a strange way....hopeful!! That's it, I thought. My new dream--I can have my NEW DREAM!! What does your New Dream look like?

We are in this place and time of co-creating our dreams!! It is possible to share all of these incredible things that are resting in my heart....just waiting for that perfect time. No one will judge, criticize or squish my dreams. Now is the time.

I invite you to take 10 minutes everyday, and listen to this powerful message. If you feel so guided, join me at one of the upcoming gatherings: Navigating through the Changes ~ Living with Trust, Faith and a Suitcase filled with Love!!
All my love,
Jean Kowalski
Journey of the Heart & Soul
www.jeankowalski.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qk9PNKFky40

My journey half way across the USA!!!

Welcome my dear friends,
Here is a shortened version of the last month, going across country.

This journey that I took will be one I will never forget! I left Southern California on Sept 24th and headed north. First stop.....Ennis, Montana for a 2-day workshop. This was my first time to visit the great state of Montana. I totally feel in love with the pristine, ice-cold rivers and the glorious mountains.


The workshop was a combination of painting and healing and I was so blessed to have 5 amazing women in the weekend gathering. We painted, laughed, cried, danced, drummed at the river's side. We were so blessed with the presence of the animals; from the horses out back, cats, deer, hummingbird moth, hornets (yes, they represent sisterhood) and to finalize the weekend.....a huge black bear! It was magical.

Then on Monday I left for Rapid City, South Dakota to stay with some old friends of mine. The drive across Montana was quite endless. I never realized it was such a huge state. It was 1,000's of deer and antelope, open land, no cell connection and no civilization for miles! So I had to stay fully connected and focused on keeping the animals off the road. Well I got to Rapid City, in the dark, and almost hit 3 deer right in town!!! Say what??!!!! Thanks to the angels I missed them.

Had a fun visit with my friends and met a beautiful soul sister, who is an amazing healer. On day 2 I started getting a little headache...not sure what brought it on. All night it got worse, though I needed to leave in the morning to start the journey to Wisconsin. I left about 7:30 am...got on the highway and got sick. Had to keep pulling to the side of the road. I remember at one point I pulled off on a ramp and fell asleep. After coming to, I got back on the road, still sick. I'm not sure where I was, though ended up on an overpass in the middle of nowhere. I only remember bits and pieces of that time frame. Thank God my new soul sister that I had just met the day before, called me. She saw what was happening....my spirit was needing much work. Come to find out, she worked on me for hours, from a distance. It was some time later and was feeling a couple hairs better. I just knew I needed to get to a motel and a bed. Tried to start the car....no juice. I had left the lights on so therefore the battery died. So I called AAA, but I remember after the call I think I checked out again. Came back and still no AAA. Called again and the guy was trying to find me. He arrived and said that town was 10 miles down the road. So I talked myself into doing that.....it's only 10 miles, I can do it, I can do it. Got checked in and fell into bed. About 9pm the intense headache subsided I was able to walk over to the gas station and get some crackers and chicken noodle soup. YUM....

Through this whole process, there was definitely something taking place on deeper levels. I still don't understand it all. What I do know was that I only traveled 60 miles in 10 hours.

Next morning, much better....just felt like I was beat up. Went to the gas station to fill up the car. When I went to turn the car on, no juice in the battery!!! The gas station people happened to know the AAA guy and all of a sudden we look up and he's pulling off of the highway and passing right in front of the gas station!! I wasn't even off of the phone with AAA and he came back, jumped the car and ready to go!!! He looked at me and said, "at least you look better today than you did yesterday!!" Thank you angels.

I made it to Wisconsin late that day. Lots of miles and some rain at the end, though ok.

I had 1 person for the workshop in Wisconsin. Had a lovely time being it was an old friend!! Later that week I went to a little town in northern Wisconsin, called Bruce. I spent the day at a friends healing space, doing angel readings/healings. Total blast until I met up with "Petey the Porcupine"!! Petey was in the wrong place at the wrong time!! Or maybe it was the right place and he was ready to move on to animal spirit world. Yes, he left his 30,000 quills in my radiator!!

I got to my friend Meaghan's horse farm. It was Divine to pull in there and see the dogs, cats and all the horses and beautiful land. Just what I needed.

The next day I did readings/healings for 3 of her friends. They all went well. That evening my head was feeling a little goofy. Went to bed, got up in the morning with a headache. It got so bad, so fast. Before I could blink I was sicker than a dog and totally in-coherent. Remembering only bits and pieces of this day, the bigger picture was being shown on whether I was chosing to stay or to go. So my friend from Rapid City and Meaghan (whom I was staying with), helped me to stay.


So guides were telling them that I don't drive home for 10 days. So I had an extended stay at the farm. The horses were amazing.....I really connected with a 3-year old, Kobalt!! We had great communication...he helped me get back on my feet. Everyday I would take apples and carrots out to all the horses....22 of them!! Also one night, a couple of nights before I left, one of the barn kitties got stepped on and her poor leg was mangled. She choose to move across the rainbow bridge that night. We were quite sad....her name was Dahlila....she, too, was a great communicator!

It took me 4 days to get home......through pouring rain, huge winds and sand storms in the desert.

The crazy thing with all of this is it took all my senses into higher dimensions and extreme sensitivity. Going across the country I was picking up the grief, strife, the death and destruction of years gone by. So for the whole trip I was anchoring light deep within the earth, repairing the grid system and helping spirits cross over.

So I am back to Southern California and to the beautiful and healing ocean.
What next....I'm not sure as yet, though am trusting that the Universe will show me!!
Through this whole process, it became very clear that it is now time for "WE"! We are here together to co-create and experience heaven on earth.

Can we live and share from the heart, from that core of who we truly are.......beautiful, gorgeous beings of Light? I say we can..........

I look forward to connecting with you real soon.
Forever in the Divine Space of Love & Light,

Jean Kowalski