01/04/2026
Today, on the first full moon of '26, when the energies are the highest for manifestation, I created a yearly mandala. It is significantly different than last year's. A few days ago, I spoke with someone who had just had a hard to hear message. They spent a few days speaking with others and made a plan to speak to me today. This gave me time to integrate it, and as I did, I knew I wanted to speak safely from the heart. As I spontaneously began a mandala (had no plans to), it was a yes moment. It was good timing with the full moon in Cancer and the end of a nine-year cycle astrologically. Whew. A heart emerged in the layout, and it tied into the experience of manifesting empathy, for the upcoming conversation and year. A mandala is a living art form. It manifests an intention, with a focus on mindfulness, an energy emerges. It was exactly what was needed for the conversation was heartfelt and meaningful. As a somatic empath, I experience the level of empathy from hot to cold. It is all empathy, yet an example is with hot empathy. It would not be expressed in the workplace. In the workplace, it would be more professional and distant, yet still empathy. In a loving relationship, hopefully, empathy would at a 10 on the scale of 1 to 10. (I have yet to witness this). In the services I offer, there is empathy listening, which is profound for people who have not experienced it before. Yet the heart is held to protect both others and self. In Feldenkrais I describe the touch as empathy touch, and again, it is profound for people who have not experienced it. In the past year, experiences of heart empathy has been emerging in engagements It presents in a safe way. I originally shut it down as it wasn't safe for people receiving it, or for myself. At that time, 16 years ago, people fell in love with the level of empathy and wanted to put me in a guru scenario. I choose to cool it down and shield them, and myself from this tendency. I didn't want to have that responsibility or burden. Thankfully, I had witnessed the responsibility a true monk has when people idolize them in the way they do, and learned what they had to do to disengage from it. I didn't have the training. Instead, I focused on the practical skill development of the logical steps one could take for mental, physical and emotional clarity that could be experienced in living action. The heart began coming online again in the past number of months, with the strength slowly increasing. It's spontaneous and not something I am thinking about. It is organic, and it is not carrying the same soul bonding that it did when it first activated those years ago. The heart empathy is more powerful than when first ignited, yet it has no inner attachment to my human needs or ego. It simply emanates through my heart with no attachment or engagement. It emanates a field of heart consciousness beyond verbal concepts. It has a healing nature. It gives lenience to shifting what needs to be spoken, or created, with confidence beyond struggle. It's a new tool coming through that I expect will be a part of '26. This aligns with the focus on healthy lifestyles in all areas of living. As the heart and crystal elements began to take shape, the energy from the crystal heart was tangible. If there were one message I could give one person, it would be how thoughts, emotions and focus create your reality. It isn't anyone else doing something to you. It is the field being created in your surrounding environment by your own state of mind. It creates the field of your experience. It is what you say and do in your actions that creates your future. The power of the mandala is to create a physical manifestation on your intuitive level for birthing what you long for in your reality. The power to create an intentional reality is within you. , ,
