Imprints

Dear Y'all,

Here we are, in the season to be jolly, and I find myself thinking
Deep Thoughts (well, maybe not so deep) about something that came up
in my clearing group a few weeks ago: imprints. What was
gratuitously offered was the information that Earth is now releasing
imprints good and bad and that we humans need to do the same. I
wrote about this at some point --- though whether or not it is in
AWAKENING I don't remember --- and can still picture the visual that
came into my mind: rays of "stuff" shooting out of the planet while
new energies were beaming in.

To imprint is defined as "to mark by or as by pressing or stamping"
and "to implant firmly in the mind or fix in the memory." As a noun,
it is "a mark made by imprinting" and "a lasting effect or
characteristic result." Conscious and unconscious, we all have
imprints, those ideas and assumptions we make about how the world
works. Last week I sat down to think about my parents and the
worldviews I perceived they had and passed on to me. (I say "I
perceived" because my brothers would probably come up with a different list.)
I was surprised not only by what I came up with but with the length
of the list. Intellectually there is much I no longer agree with,
but because an imprint is more emotional than mental, I have to look
at it anyway. Imprints are not something that can simply be thought
away. Because they are impressed on us like a Good Housekeeping
seal, they become part of who we think we are and how we go about the
world.

So what do we do about those imprints we decide are no longer useful to us? I asked about that at our last clearing and the
answer I got was: First off, you can ask for help, whether from your
guides, guardian angels, Higher Power or mentor. Then you must
acknowledge and honor the imprint; it served you to hold it at some
time in your life. Then, bless it and release it. "They" said it
would always be with you at some level, but it need not define you or
run your life. While visiting a friend, I remembered a technique I
used many years ago that worked very well for me. I would lie down
and visualize little wavelets of lavender light washing up onto my
feet, bringing whatever it was I was looking for, carrying away what
was no longer needed as they ebbed away. Each wave would come up a
little higher on my body until I was finally being washed in waves of
lavender light. I haven't yet tried this to wash away the imprints
I choose not to keep but I suspect it would work for this too.

As we approach our two New Years, that of the natural world on
December 22 and of the human world on January 1, it seems like a
perfect time to look at imprints. Raymon Grace has sent out his
reminder that people around the world will be visualizing the kind of
Earth they want at 8 PM on Saturday (the 22nd) and suggests spending
some time in nature, then sending out an energy of balance, wholeness
and peace. Because the energy sent is only as good as the person
sending it, he suggests you clear yourself before thinking about what
you want to create. Good idea.

And then I hope you will go out and really be jolly and celebrate the
beauty of this Mother Earth, the honor of being alive in these
challenging times and all the gifts of life on our planet. (You can
think about societal and global imprints later.)

A thousand thousand blessings to each of you, with laughter and love
all along the road,

Fran.

Fran Gatins
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You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.

Mary Oliver