Evolutionary Sacrifice

Remember, not all (very few in fact) relationships will accommodate your growth and evolution. Many people have a vested interest in you staying exactly the way you are because it makes them feel safe. At these junctures, you either sacrifice your transformation or you sacrifice the relationship. Even if you choose what keeps you small, LIFE has a way of forcing you out, often while kicking and screaming. Hopefully we learn eventually to skip the struggle and simply let go and move with Life's current instead of against it.

Never could I have become the person I was destined to be by remaining the person I had to be in order to be in relationship with you.

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman

Contruct vs Reality

Not all constructs are constructive; and no construct is constructive when it's mistaken for reality.

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman #peelbackthecontructs
#essenceoverideology

No Place Like Home

No matter what people, places, and things surround you, you'll always feel a little lost until you find the home within yourself.

THERE REALLY IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME 💕❤💕❤

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman #theresnoplacelikehome

Authenticity over People Pleasing

When being liked and being authentic don't coincide, which do you choose?

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman #beyondherdmentality #authenticityoverpleasing

Deep knowing

Ah, for that glorious moment when you know it's all working out, even though you don't yet see the how, what, and when.

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman

How Long Can I Stay Out of My Mind-Loop?

Lately I've been playing a game. It's called: "How long can I stay out of my mind-loop?" We all have one. It's habitual, it's usually fairly hideous, serves no one, and is counter-productive to everything we're on this planet to be and do. What keeps you out of this mind-loop varies from person to person and at different times. It might be a chant, a sound, breath awareness, a prayer, a mantra, a song, something you read, jumping up and down, standing on your head, etc. They all work 100% of the time...if...and this is a big "IF"....IF we remember to practice them. To be awake enough at the point of entry to choose your practice over the rabbit hole - that's the key and it's really the only key and the one many try to avoid their entire life. Instead looking for a quick fix pill, a feel good way out, or an excuse as to why it won't work. You can have all the spiritual information in the world. It's all available at this point in human history. It's not hiding behind an obscure language or in a secret temple scroll somewhere. It's ALL on the worldwide web. Unfortunately the web gives you the info but it can't practice it for you. Damn! right?! Addiction to our habitual mind-loop is the addiction we all share and the source of all other addictions. It's not easy to kick the habit but it is worth it and the only way out of slavery and into liberation. Triggers can be seen, not as reasons to go into the rabbit hole, but as opportunities to practice staying out of it. Why do you think meditation is now the new frontier? We're at a very exciting point in time where there is a mass awareness that we are somehow separate from the mechanistic mind. We as individuals can derive strength from that wave be part of the awakening and progress of humanity. Let's play today - "How long can I stay of of my mind-loop?" See what happens.

Deep Soul Diving

Expansion begins when the ego untethers the soul from its dry land of constructs and is willing to dive with Her into the wild, mysterious depths of the unknown.

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman #soullungs #egoboxes  #lifeoutsidetheconstruct

Faithlight

When the way is dark
and unfamiliar,
let faith be your flashlight.

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman #faithlight

The great dilemma

A mind primarily focused
on acquiring has little
space for being. Ironically
being is the only thing
worth acquiring. Even so
it cannot be acquired
because it already,
always is.

Alison Bristow
#theshaktishaman #trailtalk #mountainmoment #stonespeaks #runningreflection #movingmeditation #thegreatdilemma