Drip-Drip-Drip

Welcome to my Page. I want to start getting my thoughts out into the World and using my voice- so I am starting here and today. I am limiting the editing and keeping the roll-out simple, so please show me grace as I move into this space.

I have had a Roof Leak since March that I have attempted to fix for 3 months. Why is this the topic of my first blog post you might ask. Very simply- the drip got me.

Mediumship Development is one of those Spirtual Practices that invites the Human Side of us to illuminate our shadow. The Development Path acts like a Karma Yoga and Bhakti Path mix, showing us areas where we can open our hearts a little more in the face of uncertainty and vulnerability. It enhances our concentration and we learn to be kinder to ourselves as we navigate the uncertainty and learn to speak our truth. One of the concepts Mediumship Development teaches us is emotional regulation in the face of uncertainty and “no”. Learning to manage the dips of the link and the dips of energy that are natural in any conversation lead to holding our Power on a deeper and more empowering level.

So how does the Drip, Drip, Drip from my ceiling translate to Mediumship Development, Meditative Practice and Emotional Regulation inside my Daily Life? Imagine you are sitting in your room, knowing water damage is affecting your home and there is absolutely nothing you can do because you have done everything that can be done. When you hear the water start dripping, what would your reaction be in that moment?

I have had a Daily Meditation practice since 2023. I play with different forms of meditation and different lineages and different types because each style of meditation brings a different awareness of myself into the bigger picture of the Whole. Lately, my focus has been on Vipassana and Breathing based/Body Scan Meditations to invite presence. The problem with presence is if I am not careful, my thoughts can overwhelm me during the sitting. When I sit inside meditation or inside a Mediumship reading, if I am not focused on watching the waves of thoughts and emotions as they arise, I very easily fall into giving the experiences around me more weight than the internal experiences that are gold and that live inside me. As I bring my Meditative practice to my daily world, instances like the drip give me space to explore the feelings that arise like panic, anxiety, and the thought forms that can carry those thoughts on for infinity. While the feelings that arise might live in my body and be tied to individual, familial, societal, generational, and collective trauma- my thoughts and what arises from them and what I do with them lives within Me.

During one of my last Meditations, my Baba impressed upon me the idea that a thought form and the feelings that create the story are like Dandelions. Envision if you will the Dandelions we picked as children and blew on to make a wish. When the Dandelion is blown on, the seeds spread and pollinate the world around it. It acts as the center. Imagine all those seeds being blown off into the Atmosphere and Space, with no direction. When we allow a thought to take off on its own without being conscious of what we are Creating within our World around us, we are effectively leaking our energy into the World with no direction. Those thoughts then create our individual World and impact us and those within our Worlds.

As the anxiety rose with every drip, I sat and acknowledged the rising panic, thoughts and feelings. I started greeting the drip with “ah so” or “this too”. As this process of meeting myself began, I started to see the part of myself that wanted to protect me and greeting her with love and acceptance, the drip started to bother me less and less. It's still there- it's still a problem. That didn't change. My reaction to myself in relation to the drip changed within the span of 3 days of non-stop rain.

Every situation we find ourselves in- chosen or not- provides a unique chance to practice the emotional regulation we learn within Mediumship Development. When we stop rejecting ourselves for being human and we open our Hearts to our feelings and emotions, we learn that our Heart is big enough to carry it all. It's a practice. It is never perfect because we came here to learn how to talk through the fear and the anxiety and to love ourselves through all the things that arise. However we choose to approach the lesson will be different based on the individual or the Karmic path each of us takes this life. For

It all leads back to the Path of the Awakening Heart.

We Never Walk this Journey Alone.

Ashley ♥️