I remember when I was young I was obsessed with looking in the mirror. There was a running discussion at Spelman College, my alma mater, about how much time I stood looking in the mirror.
At the time if they could have heard the dialogue in my head it would have been this:
"I need to make sure that I am perfect. I must stare into this mirror to make sure that I look perfect. I am searching everything about me to make sure that I am perfectly beautiful. I can't leave though I have been standing here for at least 15 minutes. If I stare long enough, maybe I will really believe that I am perfect."
I had a middle school friend call me vanity because I was so consumed by my looks...dag! Me and that darn mirror!
Once I began to study the Ancient Spiritual system called Ifa I learned of the goddess Oshun. She exemplifies BEAUTY! She is beautiful and needs all around her to be beautiful, too.
"Oh yes! That is me! I am so Oshun!" I told myself. What I learned is that a physical object that helps one to connect with the energy of Oshun is the mirror...
Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com/the-mirror.html
Looking at the beauty that is YOU,
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com
Friday, October 30, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Inspiration: May you be in the flow of being ALIVE!
Enjoy this great video and song. May it connect you with your divine inner presence. *YOU* is YOU in this song!
Self-Love and It's Role in Loving Another Person
Self-Love Is How To Love Another Person
Instead of trying to love them more, love you more!
Sometimes the person we love doesn't need us to love them more. Sometimes that person is calling us to be more of who we are.
There are so many of us who stoop low but love big. We love so much that we put our own spiritual growth and development on hold. All we can see, all that we pay attention to is getting love from another.
But what happens when the other says through word or deed, "I really don't want this kind of love from you." Then what do we do?
Read more here:
Love to all of you
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Martyrdom: What is it really? When is it rather toxic?
I have always enjoyed watching the last part of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's historic last speech. Today as I listened to it I heard:
"He was a true martyr." Then I heard, "True martyrs don't grieve dying for their cause. They have no attachments. This is different from people who live as martyrs for love. Dr. King clearly shows that he knows that he came here to do a specific thing and that his work was done. He was not attached to him ACTUALLY SEEING the end result because he saw it spiritually first."
I will never grieve for true martyrs again. Sometimes we have to die to this physical world for the greater good. I give thanks for the true martyrs of this world.
To all of those who are martyrs with the expectation of sacrificing your dreams, your happiness and peace to get love from others, STOP! You are not doing the world any favors.
Once you see the big picture then you will stand and live. You will give of yourself freely knowing that the ultimate is your fulfilling your destiny within the Greater Divine Plan of Oneness.
Martyrs...yes..I do better understand them today.
~Tirra-Olufemiwww.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
Self-Love: The most important relationship is with your HEAD!
One of the most profound rituals that I learned from my studies of ancient African Traditional Spirituality is the Head Blessing.
First, what is the Head? In Ifa, a spiritual system born out of the Yoruba in Nigeria, the spiritual head of a person is called the Ori. It is the part of us that stays in constant communication with the Higher Universal Divine Wisdom.
Our Ori is considered our own personal deity. It is the part of ourselves that sees the biggest picture of us and of reality.
Ori is that voice inside of us that so many of us say this about, "Something told me to not go down that street. I am glad that I listened because there was bad
news down that street."
As time has passed I have come to understand how other spiritual systems describe Ori. The Christians call it the Holy Spirit. It is Ganesha in the Vedic tradition and Ausar in the spiritual system out of Egypt Kemet. When all else fails just call this part of our selves the Higher Self.
Ifa teaches that it is important to keep our awareness of and line of communication open with our Ori, which has a vested interest in us succeeding.
A way to keep the connection strong between the more limited physical level of our selves and the Ori is to bless it.
Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com/self-love-is-most-important-relationship.html
Realizing My Self,
Tirra-Olufemi
First, what is the Head? In Ifa, a spiritual system born out of the Yoruba in Nigeria, the spiritual head of a person is called the Ori. It is the part of us that stays in constant communication with the Higher Universal Divine Wisdom.
Our Ori is considered our own personal deity. It is the part of ourselves that sees the biggest picture of us and of reality.
Ori is that voice inside of us that so many of us say this about, "Something told me to not go down that street. I am glad that I listened because there was bad
news down that street."
As time has passed I have come to understand how other spiritual systems describe Ori. The Christians call it the Holy Spirit. It is Ganesha in the Vedic tradition and Ausar in the spiritual system out of Egypt Kemet. When all else fails just call this part of our selves the Higher Self.
Ifa teaches that it is important to keep our awareness of and line of communication open with our Ori, which has a vested interest in us succeeding.
A way to keep the connection strong between the more limited physical level of our selves and the Ori is to bless it.
Read the rest of the article here:
http://www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com/self-love-is-most-important-relationship.html
Realizing My Self,
Tirra-Olufemi
Monday, October 12, 2009
Weekly Spiritual Reading: Tap the Power within YOU!
This week is proving to be one where we are to ponder and seek a greater experience with the quality of the Divine called Ominipotence. This very same quality is within you, though it may be latent or underdeveloped.
According to the oracle, this is a week to either connect to your inner power on a deeper level or to operate from a limited amount due to too much buying into the construct of limitation that is pervasive in this physical level of consciousness.
Week of October 11-October 18, 2009 Seker+, Sekert- KEYNOTES: Tap the Power Within, Chant, Patience, DIE, Release, Omnipotence
http://www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com/weekly-spiritual-reading.html
In Light and Love
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com
According to the oracle, this is a week to either connect to your inner power on a deeper level or to operate from a limited amount due to too much buying into the construct of limitation that is pervasive in this physical level of consciousness.
Weekly Spiritual Reading
The Oracle Speaks to the Goddess-Body-Mind-Spirit.com Community
This week is all about you tapping into your spiritual power, the Omnipotence of the Great Mother within you.
I am all about the power. Who doesn't want to be powerful? What is important is for us to realize that we are powerful beings and that what we are called to do is to allow that power to emerge.
No longer should we give up and give away our power....
Read here for the entire explanation of the reading:http://www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com/weekly-spiritual-reading.html
In Light and Love
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Life Review and Gratitude
It is so amazing to me how much synchronicity abounds when I walk aware.
A few days ago I heard the recounting of a story of a man who had a near death experience. During a life review he was shown all of his life.
The story teller said that what disturbed this man most was not what he saw but what he realized he missed out on by not appreciating and walking in gratitude for his life.
He missed out on more when he was caught up in self-pity and missed the bigger picture.
So I decided to post what the ArchAngel Jeremi-EL has to say about Life Review:
"Take inventory of your life and resolve to change or heal anything that's unbalanced."
It takes courage to look at your life. Yet, if done with compassion and a sense of humor, you'll grow and learn from a life review.
I'll help you take stock of where you've been. We'll look at what you've learned, and how these lessons are a valuable asset for today and tomorrow.
We'll also notice life patterns that aren't serving your highest good, and we'll take steps to release those patterns."
Maat is the Goddess whose wisdom is speaking to the Goddess-Body-Mind-Spirit.com community this year. She says to look at the big picture to see how all of the pieces
fit together to make the whole.
As I see it self-life review is a way for us to put all of our individual experiences into perspective to see how they lead us to remember our wholeness.
It is really neat that I attended Bible study tonight and this is the very topic that we discussed: the importance of self-examination.
As I listened I realized how this life-review is important to experiencing more gratitude. I see it as I do the process of unraveling a mystery.
Each experience, each belief, each attitude, emotion and vibration is a clue that leads to another clue that leads to another clue.
After connecting the clues the mystery is no longer and is now self-realization.
Life review can be used to experience more gratitude for after a while one can't help but be happy and grateful for their life.
May you realize the beauty of your life and the giftedness that is you as a result of your own life review.
And so it is.
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com
A few days ago I heard the recounting of a story of a man who had a near death experience. During a life review he was shown all of his life.
The story teller said that what disturbed this man most was not what he saw but what he realized he missed out on by not appreciating and walking in gratitude for his life.
He missed out on more when he was caught up in self-pity and missed the bigger picture.
So I decided to post what the ArchAngel Jeremi-EL has to say about Life Review:
"Take inventory of your life and resolve to change or heal anything that's unbalanced."
It takes courage to look at your life. Yet, if done with compassion and a sense of humor, you'll grow and learn from a life review.
I'll help you take stock of where you've been. We'll look at what you've learned, and how these lessons are a valuable asset for today and tomorrow.
We'll also notice life patterns that aren't serving your highest good, and we'll take steps to release those patterns."
Maat is the Goddess whose wisdom is speaking to the Goddess-Body-Mind-Spirit.com community this year. She says to look at the big picture to see how all of the pieces
fit together to make the whole.
As I see it self-life review is a way for us to put all of our individual experiences into perspective to see how they lead us to remember our wholeness.
It is really neat that I attended Bible study tonight and this is the very topic that we discussed: the importance of self-examination.
As I listened I realized how this life-review is important to experiencing more gratitude. I see it as I do the process of unraveling a mystery.
Each experience, each belief, each attitude, emotion and vibration is a clue that leads to another clue that leads to another clue.
After connecting the clues the mystery is no longer and is now self-realization.
Life review can be used to experience more gratitude for after a while one can't help but be happy and grateful for their life.
May you realize the beauty of your life and the giftedness that is you as a result of your own life review.
And so it is.
Tirra-Olufemi
www.goddess-body-mind-spirit.com
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