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Every month, Karen will offer her
spiritual insights for "being present"
in all aspects of life, by calling upon the techniques
of her four guiding principles,
MESHE, HESHE, MISON & ORBIT.
Gentle Conscious Living
We don’t have to ride a turbulent wave to unwind
from our past. We can survey the material of our lives
with gentleness and still be timely and effective.
Coming into this third millennium we have choices about
how to heal, how to process, and how to move ourselves
into consciousness. And we can choose a path that will
support us through gentle conscious living....
I have had the great pleasure of working with a woman
who could, in many ways, be any one of us. She is
bright, educated, and self-sufficient. She has a strong
mind, wonderful children, and a light, beautiful spirit.
Her story begins in the middle of her life, with a
business of twenty years still going strong; two
marriages behind her; and a future awaiting, which she
greets with excellent health.
Just three months ago she responded to an inner urge
to follow up on a book she had read. She contacted me,
the lucky author, and we began a journey together which
she would later say, changed not only her life, but the
lives of generations.
In a journal-like fashion, we worked each week
delving into the details that made up her MESHE.
Beginning with what she liked and loved, we created a
special place for things she wanted to pay more
attention to, things she would prefer not to have to do,
and things she felt that, if she had a magic wand, she
would be absolutely thrilled to get to do!
One week we looked at everything in her physical
world. We talked about her home, her health, and her
work environment. She voiced wanting to eat more
vegetables, take regular walks, and make peace with a
house she’d lived in for years, but had never felt was
home.
Each week she’d return with more awareness for the
subjects she had been willing to explore in the prior
sessions. She came ready to deepen her questions, her
answers, and her search.
The second session of exploring her physical world
together, we discovered that she didn’t eat enough
vegetables because she’d long since stopped cooking;
that she could walk more frequently if she would invite
a friend along; and that there were very good reasons
why she was not comfortable in her home, reasons that
she would now be able to do something about.
With every area we explored, another part of her
wisdom came forward. It was beautiful - easy, nurturing,
and most of all welcomed.
One week we explored art. She spoke of writing poetry
in her past. The pain that most of her poems expressed.
The absence of creativity in her life, from as early as
childhood. I questioned her, and she responded
thoughtfully, with a memory of her older brother,
recalling how he struggled as an artist when they were
growing up. How the family rejected his talent and how
he had never, even after coming into adulthood,
recovered from the pain of their rejection.
She teared up at the possibility that this might have
something to do with the lack of creativity in her life
- in all of their lives, not just her family of origin,
but the family that she had raised, and the ones her
children were raising, now.
As her medicine, we agreed that she would sketch for
at least fifteen minutes each night before she went to
bed, a time when she would ordinarily read or journal.
She returned the next week with a new light in her eyes.
I realized then, and so did she, that her journey of
transformation was gently and easily set upon its
powerful path. She expressed that her released
creativity was also touching her grandchildren’s
lives. This was no subtle change, this was changing
generations.
She really embraced her art. The first week she
discovered that it soothed her. The next week she told
tales of seeing more detail in the world, of going to
the local gardens and being able to appreciate flowers
in a whole new way. She realized that she had never
really seen the beauty of flowers before. By the third
week she had purchased what she called, "real art
supplies" and showed off a sketch book with pages
of flowers, and vases, and fruit bowls she’d been
painting. The colors were rich and the images beautiful,
fitting of the newness so evident in her spirit.
We kept exploring, coming upon her intuition
next--her inner voice, her inner knowing. We really had
to hunker down and stay focused to get the answers from
her in this area, but we made it fun and stayed true to
the process. The next week she returned proudly with two
stories--two beautiful moving stories--of how her
intuition had been working in her life that week. One
involved the passing along of a gift that she had
received years before. She had never thought of its
value to another, nor was it something that she had ever
thought to give away. It was intuition at work, inner
knowing at play, allowing her life to touch another’s
so perfectly without plan.
It is gentle conscious living that can change our
lives, and the lives of those around us. Our power, our
nature, is inside of us waiting to unfold. It is an
ever-developing process because we are always healing
and always growing. We change the identity of the world
when we change the identity of ourselves.
Whether it is to face the artist inside yourself, or
meet your mystical nature, you change the world with
your conscious living. And you can do it--with gentle
baby steps.
© Copyright 2001 Karen Deborah
Farris.
Read
Karen's Current "Being Present" Column
Read
Karen's Past Columns:
April
2001 - "MISON and The Moment"
March
2001 - "The MESHE Concept - A Path to Soulful
Living"
Karen Deborah Farris is a successful counselor, healer, and bodyworker. For more than fifteen years she has taught extensive workshops based on MESHE, HESHE, MISON & ORBIT as well as many other self-discovery topics.
Farris began developing her integrated bodywork and counseling techniques in 1984 under the tutelage of many prominent doctors and healers throughout the United States.
Her education into the spiritual and physical aspects of the human experience served as the foundation for her own private practice and the development of a new philosophy. She combined her techniques into four guiding principles, which she shares in her book,
MESHE, HESHE, MISON & ORBIT: What My Grandmother Taught Me About the Universe. She is currently touring with a companion workshop series, where she creates an interactive environment demonstrating the material from her book with tangible, life altering effects. In these workshops, individuals discover a deepening of their relationship to self, others and the world around them.
Through individual counseling and group workshops, she has taught her results-oriented programs to many different types of people
including those confined to mental institutions, substance and food abusers, and generally, people in life transitions, struggling with intimate relationships, or who lack direction in their lives. Karen lives happily with her husband in Southern California.
Visit www.MESHE.com.
For more
information, contact Karen at: info@MESHE.com
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