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        • Love Comes Walkin In
        • Connection
        • At A Snail's Pace
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        • New Poems >
          • Imagine
          • The Morning Quiet
          • Why I Read Poetry
          • On Art
          • Our Song
          • Everything
          • Escape
          • Smiling Eyes
          • Mercy
        • Poems from Passion >
          • Part I >
            • When the Heart Beats
            • Let Me View Life- The Way the Heart Feels..
            • Little Girl
            • The Light
            • When I Called Her Name
            • Betwixt the Stars
            • When Cherry Blossom's Bloom
            • The Smell of Rain
          • Part II >
            • Kissing Contusion
            • Inside Each Other's Kiss
            • Butterflies Break-
            • She Was Mad-
            • Fire and Ice
            • The Trace of Night
          • Part III >
            • The Moment Before Janet Arrived
            • She Didn't Know
            • I Pretend
            • Collapsed Star
            • My Heart Bleeds...
            • Love Divided
            • In Loving Memory
            • You Never Said Goodbye...
            • Life Teaches in Mysterious Ways
            • I Learned I was Valuable
            • I Choose to Burn
            • Good Love Doesn't Hurt
          • Part IV >
            • Lady Compassion Waits
            • Daring Hearts
            • The Tides
            • She Fell
            • Your Presence
            • The Seeker
      • Short Stories >
        • Cumberland Canteen
        • The Moon Connection
        • The Lady and the Sea
        • Olly and Mildred
        • Super FLy!
        • 1713 Maplewood Drive
        • Divine Grace
      • Inner Beauty Quotes >
        • Love Series >
          • Self-Love
          • The Wind
          • The Heart
          • Connected Kisses
          • Beauty
          • Sweetness
          • Love Story
          • Emotion
          • Keep Close to your Heart
          • I Love to Feel
          • Saxophone Song
          • When the Lover Speaks
          • Shed My Flesh
          • Tongue Tied
        • Healing Series >
          • The Process of Healing
          • True Nature of a Healer
          • Healing
          • In Order to Heal
          • Heal Yourself First
          • No Shame in Pain
          • Break Me
          • Your Needs Come First
          • Heal the Self - Heal the World
        • Compassion Series >
          • Surrender
          • Love Yourself
          • Be Kind with Yourself
          • To Deeply Nurture Yourself
          • Feel What You Feel
          • Self-compassion is Courageous
          • To Surrender is to Accept
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          • Good Poetry
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          • Seek the Sensations Inside First
          • Allowing
          • Palms to Prayer-
          • Teach Other's Well
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          • Baby Steps
          • If You Don't Let Go and Grow-
          • It's Okay to Walk Away..
          • In Being One-
          • Opportunities
          • It's interesting...
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          • Be the Example
          • Our Bodies Are Fluid-
          • Meditation is not just closing the eyes-
          • To Be Steady in Chaos
          • Silence
          • Awareness
          • Seeds of Light
        • Inner Strength Series >
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          • Leave Your Mark
          • Trials
          • Those Who Strike-
          • Change Happens
          • Make Waves
          • Knowing Yourself
          • Courage 1
          • Courage 2
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          • Transformation Doesn't Have to Hurt...
          • Embrace the Trials
          • Be Your Own Hero
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          • Inspiration
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          • Root Invocation
          • Root Chakra
          • Your Roots
          • Trust
          • Foundation
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          • 2nd Chakra Invocation
          • Sacral Shaped Chakra
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          • Rebirth
          • Comfort
          • Care for the Soul
          • Sweetness
          • Vulnerability
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          • Allowing 2
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          • What Makes You a Powerful Experince
        • 3rd Chakra >
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          • Be Light
          • JoY!
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          • Unstruck
          • 3 Fold Flame of Forgiveness
          • When the Heart Beats
          • The Power of Vulnerability
          • Heart Vision
          • Heartfelt Motion
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          • Truth
          • Listen
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Forgiveness- The Evolution of Experience

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When someone hurts you, the natural response is to fight back, lash out and hurt them like they hurt you. Some choose to retreat inward, holding onto pain and secretly self-shame behind a closed mouth. Then there’s also the personal punishment, in effort to somehow redeem yourself through some form of blame or sadly, humiliation and self-harm. From any other onlooker, these are relentless actions taken to shield ourselves from pain, rejections, disappointments and, so on. Maybe, even reading this now might make you feel repulsed at such drastic measures to safeguard some semblance of sanity but in one way or another, we all do it.

When you experience some level of hurt, intentionally or otherwise, it hits you at the core. Even the slightest thought of facing it head on can be so daunting, that numbing yourself seems more likely the better option. Pain can be so disruptive that we often forget the possible growth potentials and deeper healing opportunities holding at the ready. Other avenues like; letting go, acceptance, understanding, commitment, and most of all, love. Forgiveness is a fickle and multi-layered spiritual concept, it can easily be tossed around like a hot potato, “You have to forgive. "Forgiveness is key." "Forgive not for others sake but for your own.” The idea gets tossed around like it’s a simple thing to do and it’s not. It takes guts and drive to forgive and when you’re on track, it becomes a vehicle to view beyond what occurred and observe your potential for greatness.

“Forgiveness is admitting we are like other people.” That is to say, there's meaning behind it. That in order to understand another’s ill behavior or actions, you’ll need to take a good honest look at yourself under the same lens. When you can do that, it becomes the first step in allowing the experience of forgiveness to penetrate you. It is acknowledging that all wrongs, have rights and that correction, can start with you. It’s not an easy task and you may fall down many times but you’ll get back up just as much, in pain, through pain and beyond pain because the pain you feel, is your path to healing. Your fight will no longer be against yourself or what happened to you because it will become a standard of commitment to your growth. The beauty of forgiveness is it’s a spiritual quality that has to be discovered from within, as a full embrace and it will prove to be your greatest potential for growth, transformation, and true healing. Let forgiveness become an Evolution of Experience, your symbol of a soulful journey with a special gift and promise of a greater, whole self.


The Gifts of Forgiveness  
* The Gifts of Forgiveness are many and here are just a few. 
- Discovering an inner readiness and greater accessibility to the experience of open honesty. 
- A sense of absorption in receiving the big picture and permeability, taking in what works and letting go or eliminating what does  not. 
- Gaining insight into the power and potency of surrender: starting fresh, cleaning and clearing the slate.   
- Greater strength and determination in ceasing dysfunctional and ill-patterned thoughts, emotions and behaviors. 
- Creating opportunities to craft inner spaces of radical acceptance and feeling a sense of freedom in that. 
- Clarity around where you are now, what you want ahead, and who you want to be moving forward. 
- Personal reward in time used wisely, in practicing new skills and behaviors to match.

- Please feel free to add to your own list and share!

DISCOVERY EXERCISE:
It’s important to keep seeking the gifts of forgiveness because when you experience some form of rejection, it may take some time to find understanding and the growth potentials. It may take years and even when you think you have it all together, there seems to be more. However, there is (1) beautiful thing you can do toward forgiveness and that is to be kind to yourself. Every day, every moment, take the opportunity to be conscious when your pain rises and soothe it. You may not understand what happened and why, the intentions and behaviors behind it but you can validate what you feel in the moment you feel it. Be kind with your pain because it just wants to be heard. Be kind with yourself for having endured through it. Just simple be kind because this moment, right now, is all yours to create exactly what you want in kindness and in great love.   


Love,
Jennifer
- Inner Beauty Blog
J. Circosta, 2.5.2020, All rights reserved.  
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    TIS` THE SEASON OF HEART
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    December can be a magical month for some and a fulfilling time of year. We get a chance to embrace the spirit of sharing, celebrating, and witnessing a sense of wonder and joy through the eyes of children and adults alike. Tis the season of heart, when the world steps into a place of family, togetherness, and hope. It’s an end of a year that begins an active path of giving and receiving, rooted in a coming together of values and the essence of home. The holiday season fills the atmosphere with magic. The air is crisp and clean, the sun glistens off streets by day and lights aglow in homes by night. There is a sense of warmth, deep nourishment, and care as we nestle into hearty foods like soups, stews, and hot chocolate or bundle up with sweaters, scarves, blankets and loved ones surrounded by light, hope, and the stillness of love in the air and within our hearts.
     
    The heart is full of life and love. It represents engagement in partnership and never leads alone... It never beats alone... One pulse follows the other and always in the direction of union which requires partnership. We learn to connect and re-connect through heart-experience, and this is magnified between a pair of arms that allow us to reach out and touch what we love all the while, cradled and comforted between two breasts that safely hold everything that we feel. We are given the opportunity to feel the magic of life, connection, and harmony both individually and collectively. The season of heart reminds us to create a spark of life and that we cannot go about doing that alone. It is about togetherness. It is about sharing. It is about giving and receiving. It is all about the ways of the heart. We simply relate and create in a blended continuum of wholeness. The heart does not beat alone... It does not lead alone... One pulse follows the other in complete unification.
     
    This is a time of un-veiling, re-vealing, and an un-folding of the self into the inner sweetness of comfort and warmth. It’s a reminder of the mother-child experience, the inner connection and bond of unconditional love. Our very own place to rest and rejuvenation through celebration and creation, completely disarmed and fully embraced in the natural state of being. Let the heart lead you toward a clear passage and cleansing, a shedding of the old self. Let the heart guide you in nurturing your life and all that you live for. Let the heart take you in and give you the space to surrender on a clean slate, to be reborn in conception as you grow into the new, calm and cradled in the Divine feminine, inside the season of heart.

    Love,
    Jennifer
    #HeartSeason #SpiritofCalm&Comfort #MotherEnergy #CradledInHeartEnergy #TistheSeasonforMagic #HeldinLight

    CONSCIOUS BALANCE
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    It’s time to get out of the “cookie cutter” version of what healing should look like and shift back into our own personal experience and guidance. Sometimes, the path to healing can feel off balancing and can cause concern. We forget that being off balance is also for good purpose in defining it. The act of balance looks to the center of opposing forces to reveal a place of wholeness. This is the path to healing. The gift in that is in being open and available to both sides to integrate them as a point of conscious balance.

    Let’s look at pain for example. Pain is real. It’s relentless. It reveals itself through the body. It wants to be seen. It beckons to be heard. It tugs at you every minute of every day. Pain is restrictive, trapped in the body with no space and we suffer. Pain is suffering, the physical manifestation of being held in, held back, shut down and buried within your own emotions. Your physical becomes the storehouse for emotional energy that has been ignored, unacknowledged and suppressed. Pain is a barometer, an internal broadcast system for the feelings buried inside, screaming to be heard. To be acknowledged. To be cleared. To be loved.

    Every healing journey will not look the same. It’s a personal pursuit-

    Have you ever sat with the inner voice of your own pain? I have and it had a lot to say. Pain is a lot more than just the name we gave. It’s the culmination of stuck emotions, blocked feelings, experiences, memories, unconscious belief systems and because of this, pain can be the source of evolution. Acknowledging what exists inside you, begins the path that serves as a healing direction. All of it is important information. Sometimes, the tendency is to give up because we don’t like what we see and it can be hard to move through. This is when healing becomes dedication and time invested becomes discovery. I’ve thought about pain. I’ve been in pain. I’ve worked through and with pain. It occurred to me, like a whole being awareness that the other side of pain, is pleasure. What a revelation! It never occurred to me that pleasure could be a root deficiency to the experience of pain. I was totally invested inside the pain that I missed out on any form of pleasure. I thank God for that moment in wholeness. Pleasure was now part of understanding personal balance and became a priority.

    When we embrace the other side, pain can rest. We cease falling back into rigid, perfectionism disguised as discipline and the “trigger” has a place to go, a space to flourish. My personal healing did not look ideal or what I had anticipated. I found rest. There was no more pushing or forcing life forward. The grip was loosening and I took in some fun, sweeter foods, conscious movement based on my needs rather than any “should’s.” My healing journey through pain helped me find a better balance within myself, a conscious balance. When you make your healing journey personal, it moves you, changes you, transforms you. Shift away from the “call to action” approach to healing and move deeper into intimate understanding. Let that be the life-giving medicine you need.

    Love,
    Jennifer🌸
    Gentle Touch Healing
    Healing through Compassion
    - Inner Beauty Blog, Conscious Balance, Tiny Poet, 4.19.2024

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    Jennifer is a truth seeker and artistic expressionist. She is certified energy therapist, emotional wellness coach, yoga/meditation instructor and intuitive. She is known her poetry and the deep care she feels for others. 

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