Before we begin with today’s blog, there are two things that will interest some of you. Now that my book is done, I’m going to start doing sessions again and after thinking about the financial recovery for everyone, I’ve decided to charge just $68 for a one hour session, for the time being. You can reply to this newsletter or contact me at heal@mahulili.com to receive further information about my sessions, or to schedule.
Second, to get my book self-published (my preference this time) I will need to pay for cover, layout and misc fees and etc. Rather than a Go Fund Me type of fundraising scheme, I just wanted to mention it here where there may be a few of you who feel strongly about supporting that happening. Feel no pressure please, and give only if it is a joy to you. The amount I need is not great and I know it will be met in easy ways whether here or by other currently unknown means.
Dear Ma HuLliLi,
“Please release me, let me go,” says the love song oldie by Engelbert Humperdinck. I think we can all relate. It feels like releasing time lately, wouldn’t you say? Today seems a very good moment for a little sweet release.
The same day this topic occurred as an idea for us here, a friend coincidentally (or not) sent me a post from a friend’s Facebook page sharing a blessing written for that very purpose. Here are a few lines from it:
Sister Kathryn says: According to an ancient shamanic blessing translated from Nahuatl:
“I release my partner from the obligation to complete me.
I release my parents from the feeling they have failed me.
I release my children from the need to bring me pride, so they can write their own paths to the rhythm of their heart’s whispering in their ear.
I release my ancestors from their perceived failings, knowing they have done their best to travel their way of living, and their standard of consciousness.
I surrender the role of savior to the needs of others.”
There was more, but what I found interesting was using it as an opportunity to write my own list for release. Would you like to do the same? The list might include releasing an experience, a person, a feeling, pattern, fear, wound, an embarrassment, a memory, an old hope not fully left behind.
I enjoyed, in my reflective morning time, seeing what wanted to be on my list. When it felt complete enough, I read it aloud three times. Each time, I felt more of me listening and coming into agreement. Then I toned and chanted into the departure, opening more and more as it went. The next two mornings I did the same. I felt burdens lifting, weight shifting on deck. I felt lighter, indeed.
Since then, I’ve added to it, refining it. I’ve read it from time to time when the current energies seem to grind in, calling again for letting go. It’s a lovely list, at the top I wrote SWEET RELEASE, the perfect name.
Release is indeed such a sweet pleasure. It’s not something to dread, nor is it something to blame one’s self for having to do. Where did we get such strange ideas like that anyway? In fact, release is something to be glad of, to enjoy and feel the relief of, to feel proud of.
Sometimes we feel we just want to release things once and have it done with. But in truth release is simply an important part of routine self-maintenance. And lately it feels like we are in a period that affords us many opportunities for this. These days, what is old seems to come up somewhat repeatedly. The list helps affirm and reaffirm what is released.
My list helps me stay on board rather than jump in and swim in the sludge of the unreleased. It’s all just flotsam on the river. There’s no need to grasp it each time we spy it bobbing about. It’s already in the water, on the current. It helps to leave it there instead of taking it back on board. It helps remember what’s already been offered up, letting it drift away again with a smile and a sigh. I’ve found the list a very useful thing to make, perhaps you will too.
I’m joining you in feeling released,
Mayet Ma Hulili Leilani
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