#tokopa

i started this book about a month ago... • • toko-pa’s words ring so true to me. especially on grieving and receiving. • • i wept yesterday as i read because all kinds of new clarity burst into my consciousness. i realized that the unhealed, unconscious, and unaware versions of my previous self simply didn’t believe i was worthy of very much. if you don’t believe you’re worthy of receiving then you’ll stay in ego-driven, repeating cycles. even when you don’t really want to or mean to... • • for me, grieving seems to be a critical piece that i need to lean into. i’ve never been one to entertain someone trying to guilt or shame me into their preferred behaviors for my life. but grief...i didn’t even realize how much i needed to process all of the unresolved grief in my life until i started reading page 121 of this book. the tears just flowed. • • “grief is the response to a broken bond of belonging.” • • pain as an ally in healing, for real, for real. i reserved expressions of grief for deaths. but, there’s all kinds of losses that i need to feel the pain of and i simply didn’t do the work of ‘grieving’ for...until lately. • • as i truly learn what it means to let go and surrender, the grieving has taken its own shape. yesterday helped me to see how vital my expressions of grief are for new expressions of receiving to enter...it’s truly powerful stuff. clearing the old, so the new can bloom. • • thank you, toko-pa. your words were right where i need them at exactly the right moment for me to truly listen to you.🙏🏽👁 • • ❤️💛💚🖤 @tokopa #tokopa #belonging #greiving #painasyourally (at San Jose, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxDKc2QBAiYzfZPykKIjW64tchzSJr8xCrOpVk0/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1ib0ynfkb2zh

The willingness to rebel from the expected norms, rules, and silent contracts of establishment comes out of knowing that one cannot afford to build resentment. Resentment, which comes from the decision to go against one's truth, embitters the self. It somaticizes in the body and takes on the burden of pain as if it were ours alone. The whistleblower, on the other hand, reveals a shared complicity. And in that stance, the pain becomes, in a sense, communal. #tokopa #rebel #resentment #rain #walk #berlin #contrast #camper https://www.instagram.com/p/BoFJwwzhooC/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qcxp83axh0rq

#Repost from @truessence_awakening : "To your remothered self I offer this future blessing: Through trial and fire, against the odds, you have grown to trust that the world can be a safe place and you have every right to walk here. You have made parents of your instincts, intuition and dreaming; you have allowed love into where it had never before been received; you have grown life where once it was barren. With just a few found and trustworthy seeds, you have nurtured the greatest harvest there is in this, your humble life of belonging. Bless your beautiful heart," Toko-pa💐 #tokopa #onbeinginyourbody #mothersday #reparentingtheself #innerchild (at New Jersey)

"The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them." #Charles Bukowski | Art by #Wang #Yiguang #dreamworkwithtokopa #tokopa

Dreams, on the other hand, go straight for those things and throw off the covers. They work tirelessly to retrieve our forgotten, neglected and rejected soul-parts. It can be threatening to the ego at first, whose whole existence depends on keeping those things hidden. And while it is certainly possible to survive in this way, underneath the daily armour is an unabating hunger to be seen.” (Click here to read more). © 2016 Toko-pa Turner | Artwork by Sachin Teng

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“With dreamwork, we are endlessly tenderising ourselves to subtletly. When we begin to know its dimensions, pain can no longer envelop us in an indistinct mass. It’s not that we are ridding ourselves of suffering, but rather learning its name, which is the prelude to befriending it." (Click here to read more). © 2016 Toko-pa Turner | Artwork by Edel Rodriguez

So please consider your contractions are actually validations of where you are bravely digging into your own substrate to unearth those limiting patterns and, in releasing them, revealing a greater capacity for belonging and joy.” (Click here to read more).  © 2016 Toko-pa Turner | Artwork by The Art of Kelly Louise Judd