Evening Tide

Meditations by Elizabeth Tarbox ©1998

 Rebirth

When the day is too bright, or the night too dark, and your feelings are like an avalanche barreling down the mountain of events outside your control, when you look down and you are falling and you cannot see the bottom, or when your pain has eaten you and you are nothing but an empty hungry hole, then there is an opportunity for giving.

Don’t stay home and cover your head with a pillow.   Go outside and plant a tulip bulb in the ground: that is an act of rebirth.  Sprinkle breadcrumbs for the squirrels or sunflower seed for the birds: that is a claiming of life.  And when you have done that, or if you cannot do that, go stare at a tree whose leaves are letting go for its very survival.  Pick up a leaf, stare at it; it is life, it has something to teach you.

You are as precious as the birds or the tulips or the tree whose crenelated bark protects the insects who seek its shelter.  You are an amazing, complex being, with poetry in your arteries, and charity layered beneath your skin.  You have before you a day full of opportunities for living and giving.  Do not think you know all there is to know about yourself, for you have not given enough away yet to be able to claim self-knowledge.  Do you have work to do today?  Then do it as if your life were hanging in the balance, do it as fiercely as if it mattered, for it does.  Do you think the world doesn’t need you?  Think again!  You cleanse the world with your breathing, you beautify the world with your giving, you perfect the world with your thinking and acting and caring.

Don’t stay home and suffocate on your sorrow: go outside and give yourself to the world’s asking.

 

Meditation & The Tadd Technique

Ellen Tadd is an internationally known clairvoyant counselor, educator, and author who has been teaching and counseling for more than forty years.

Attending Ellen Tadd’s Boston-based classes, which focused on meditation techniques and spiritual philosophy, were truly transformational.  It changed my life exponentially and deepened my understanding of what it means to be a spiritual being having a human experience.  As spiritual beings, it is important for us to appreciate the value of learning and growing at the “Soul level.”

People often lean towards either trusting their gut or relying on their analytical mind, but Ellen Tadd urges readers to consider a new approach that allows both emotions and the intellect to be guided by wisdom.

Through describing how the Spirit, soul, and personality are integrated, she guides readers in deepening and expanding their perceptions to discover practical solutions to everyday challenges.

A mini “class” from my notes:

Spirit is the spark of the God force that lives in each of us.  It is good, loving, wise, compassion and all knowing.  Each has a different emphasis, i.e. one might be creative another nurturing another compassionate, etc. The spirit remains constant – there is no mood swings, or feelings – it is a constant loving force.

The Soul is over the spirit, the soul allows spirit to have animation. For example; electricity allows a toaster oven to operate.  Using this example, if the soul is the toaster oven the spirit is the electricity.  The soul goes through an evolution process.  The soul has past life traumas and history. Attitudes and actions are part of the soul. It changes.  The “electricity” (spirit) does not change.  It is constant.

Personality is influenced by genetics, society and education. It is also influenced by past lives.

Fulfillment comes with actualization of the self and the spirit, in daily life.

I realize this is an unusual philosophy.  As a beginning student in Ellen’s classes, I was very skeptical. The logic, practicality and wisdom won me over. Her teachings explore everyday occurrences in our lives and provide perspective that supports our deepest selves. Through meditation we explored our individual deep knowing and truth.

A message from Ellen’s Guides:

“Do not be caught in the limited perspective of life, for it has continual turmoil and uncertainty.  There is always the pain and the loss and the struggle and the uncertainty, but if you venture deeper, then you will see that there is a growth plan in operation for all individuals.”

Quote from Ellen Tadd’s Guides

This video is an introduction to Ellen Tadd:  https://ellentadd.com/category/video/

Explore more on her web site:  https://ellentadd.com/

I hope you find this philosophy as interesting and provocative as I did and still do.

With love and gratitude, Evelyn LaBree

 

 

 

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