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Tammy Wise2024-12-03 13:56:122024-12-03 13:56:12A Truthful Thanksgiving: Aligning Family Relations
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Tammy Wise2024-10-31 18:30:212024-10-31 18:30:21Trauma is an Entangled Bird’s Nest of Fears
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Tammy Wise2024-09-30 23:00:082024-10-01 17:55:18The Heart is Always Searching for Love.Welcome to the BodyLogos blog. Here’s where you’ll get your dose of alignment and balance with grace. (Sign up here to join 1,000 other blog subscribers.)
Redefining Strength
I want to change our perception of strength. Strength is the ability to meet resistance and influence an outcome without compromising ourselves. And we already have it.
Strength is not an attribute; it’s a state of being. Gladiators, bodybuilders, and football players demonstrate strength through brute force, sheer willpower, muscle mass, and relentless pursuit. But we’re also quick to identify dancers and martial artists as strong. Their medium taps into a sense of vulnerability, balance, alignment, controlled power, and grace—but no one can deny their strength. Strength may look different on each of us, but it is an inherent part of who we are.
You are not weak by nature; you are stronger than you think. Your strength is not something you need to kill yourself to gain—it is already within you, waiting to be excavated. The key is to stop chasing something you already have and tap into it, so you can manifest that strength in your everyday life.
Because we don’t think we’re strong, we approach resistance with the idea that we’re not enough. We throw everything we have at it and push past our physical, mental, and emotional limitations. We see strength as domination, but it’s not.
When you learn to listen to your body’s divine wisdom, you cultivate a sense of where your body is developing tension instead of standing in its strength. You end the vicious cycle of unrealistic expectations, injury, and self-criticism and learn how to consciously embrace responsible growth. You stop compartmentalizing your strength into emotional, physical, and mental pieces and operate from the strength of your being at all times.
You learn how to align yourself with gravity—instead of working against it—so you can channel your strength to meet life’s resistance. As you meet resistance with equal parts power and alignment, you transform tension into strength
As in the sword dance above, the power lies in bringing just the right amount of force—not too little and not too much. By meeting the sword’s weight, I meet gravity. I am tapped into a larger source of energy, free of tension, and discover a strength that is wholly and uniquely mine.
About Tammy Wise
A Buried Heart Still Loves
by Tammy WiseThe magic of Christmas was found by cracking a rock open. No matter how it appeared on the surface, we were reminded of what has always lived beneath it—love.
It’s been 3-years since my sister’s death. Three years of silence that abandoned relationships and fragmented the family.
This Christmas, my nephew and I initiated a reunion. Four generations gathered together. The oldest 89-years and the youngest 9-years. It was as if no time had passed. Our love was preserved.
The 9-year old’s interest in rocks, and the momentous nature of this reunion, inspired me to gift him a geode I’d been carrying around for decades. The perfect moment to break it open to see what magical world would be buried inside it had arrived!
A crystal heart was revealed after we laboured over cracking through its hard surface. (Enjoy the attached video!)
Inside an un-cut geode, pressure and time had formed a quartz crystal heart. Inside my family, pressure and time had froze our hearts until now. When we cracked that rock open we also cracked ourselves open to love again.
Could the pressure and time of those 3-years of silence have safeguarded our love, just as it had the crystal heart?
Could pressure to love wholly, mangled by the spewing rage of grieving a death, ultimately be greater than the hard shell we guard our broken hearts with?
Could time soften the judgements and revise the assumptions that we held so tightly to survive?
Nature shows us that pressure and time create beauty. A beauty that carries an energy of light that purifies, inspires and heals. Precious and semi-precious gems are worn for their healing properties all over the world. All these gems are laboured over and dug out of dingy dark mines.
Are we not the same?
To value, the hard exterior shell we armor with, more than the inner light we heal with, keeps us grieving a love that is ever present. Be reminded that love lies deep within all of us, and Nature will beckon it forth. Pressure and time is on the side of creating and preserving light.
Be beauty. Stand in your light as a beckon. Create an environment that your light can survive and thrive in. And, be patient––stay the course––as Nature digs light out of darkness.
The best present this Christmas was the resurrection of love. The inner light of my family has found its way back to the surface again.
Happy Holidays.