Self-compassion through the embrace of the Divine Feminine

The divine feminine within us offers compassion and nurturing to our frazzled being.  She brings welcome and comfort to the places within ourselves which we can not welcome.  She desires to hold those places and aspects of ourselves which we blame for our troubles, those places which carry shame, those places we cannot accept and she lets us know just how precious we are.

As we open to the embrace of the divine feminine within we set in motion the internal alignment of ourselves.  Then, rooted in a more whole place we discover a different way of relating with others around us. The embrace of the divine feminine within, met by the divine masculine within, brings about a scared union.  This sacred union lets us experience our sovereignty, knowing we do not need another person to complete us, but rather we become free to let love flow with another without grasping for the other or pushing them away.

Some of us live in painful self-imposed exile tormented by negative internal voices and judgments about multiple aspects of ourselves.  These voices, these internal criticisms reinforce internal stories of abandonment, loss, why we don't belong, why we are not welcome. These voices, these stories are false, created internally many years ago in some fashion to protect ourselves or imposed upon us by family or society.  The internal protective stories helped us survive at one point, but they no longer serve us. The external negative messaging never served us.

The loving divine goddess is here now, reaching her arms to us, offering her assistance, her love, her compassion to unburden us from this self-imposed exile.  She longs to come into contact with us so we can experience the grace of her compassion, teaching us how to hold compassion for ourselves. She desires to teach us about healing self-compassion bathed in her love.

As we start to welcome all the banished parts of ourselves, letting go of the judgments with compassion, we can enter into a state of loving curiosity, becoming friends and allies of ourselves.  Surrounded by her love, we come to realize we belong, all of who we are, and enter into the family of creation sharing our unique and necessary gifts.

Her gift of compassion, which we internalize into self-compassion, calms our anxiety, tells us deep inside we are OK, and gives us the opportunity to arrive more as who we really are.  We are not our internal negative stories, we are much more glorious and fascinating. Take the risk to open to divine compassion as a path to self-compassion.

What do I mean when I say “Divine Feminine?”

The divine feminine is the feminine aspect of life
 held in reverence and sacredness

She is the loving, compassionate embrace of a grandmother
 and the fierce protectiveness of a mother bear

She is life’s creative birthing force
 and all encompassing arms of support

She is the cycles of the moon
 the seasons
   the birth-life-death-birth
She is circle

She is sensual delight, texture and color
She is water, she is earth.  

The divine feminine is goddess
 is maiden-maid-crone
   is witch and healer

She is within us all
 surrounds us all
   sustains us all

Blessed Be

-  Jose Enciso