letting go: a trilogy of offerings to ease your way through grief and loss

March 13, 2012 by rachel

So many of us seem to be navigating through grief and loss these days. It might be the loss (or impending loss) of people and other living beings. It might be that we are releasing old dreams and pictures of how we expected our lives could have, might have, would have, certainly should have looked by now. It may be that we are grieving past pains and suffering and loneliness and a lingering sense of alienation — all having outlived […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, video • Tags: faith, letting go

let it go: now the barren gives way to the blossom (classic)

November 2, 2011 by rachel

It was only six months ago that I first posted this poem, albeit with a different Matisse painting (“Open Window, Collioure” 1905). Today, the words carry a slightly different resonance, and so a new image invited itself onto the page. now the barren gives way to the blossom if you but untie the limp strings of your torn and tender heart and let it go the mountainous terrain of the past heaves and crumbles and in its stead soft valleys […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: higher consciousness, letting go, mysticism, surrender

navigating the free-falling goo of personal metamorphosis

February 17, 2011 by rachel

A dream, a vision, happenstance? Do you truly believe all is left to chance? First light shines on, then darkness purged Then out of time as essence merged, Who claims to grasp the nature of things While counting legs, now eyes, now wings In deconstructed apprehension It’s This! No, That! Oh! Did I mention That what I see is all I know? How dost one explain the rivers flow? Where is the rational, the justifiable In beauty, truth, infinity indefinable? […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, change, higher consciousness, letting go

and now we are the truth: morning of the letting go

November 7, 2010 by rachel

  Morning of the Letting Go by rachel snyder Grandmother speaks Listen! Open to words unspoken The silent voicing of ten thousand tongues, She speaks no language So all may hear All may know. Grandmother speaks Listen! No greater change Mother Earth shall know Than the shifting of one human heart No inner rumbling, deep volcano Tidal wave of glacial ices Rivers swelled with blood of nations Blackened sky from mans great fires, All pale beside the hearts rejoicing Sudden […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, empowerment, higher consciousness, letting go, Spirit Grandmothers

the past is behind you and this day is new: begin again

November 5, 2010 by rachel

I wrote this poem, “Though Your Spirit Be Weary, Begin Again,” in December 2008. Given the nature of cycles, it is time to present it once more with a few changes. though your spirit be weary, begin again how long has it been, this feeling? the sense of being invisible, incapacitated, disconnected, alienated struggling to find home in a world not of your design? though your spirit be weary, begin again. your deepest desires have not been obliterated, they simply […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, prose poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, faith, letting go

what goes around, comes around: clarity, clearing, courage revisited

August 31, 2010 by rachel

We’re still in a Mercury retrograde period, which offers up opportunities to revisit, reflect, reconsider, and return to the as-yet incomplete.  As inspired, you may want to re-immerse yourself in the Be Whole Now archives. To simplify, here are several pieces that feel in tune with the energetic invitations of the day. Each carries a bit different frequency: trust that you will know which one (or ones) suit you in this Now — wherever you are. Here, replete with spiritual […]

Categories: astrology, body mind & spirit, inspiration, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: empowerment, higher consciousness, letting go, prayer

a double dose of straight-up inspiration

May 3, 2010 by rachel

Two messages to help move you down the road: one from my book “Be Filled with Faith” (learn more in the right-hand sidebar), and one from a book currently in the test marketing process.  These words are infused with the vibration of faith, discovery, and easeful change.  Let ‘em in! Be Unafraid to Let Go Change can be a powerful tonic, bringing fresh vibrancy to the old and stale. But first, you must be willing to release dead-end relationships, jobs, […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, spirituality, transformation • Tags: awakening, body mind & spirit, change, empowerment, faith, letting go, life, personal growth, truth, wisdom

letting go of relationships that no longer serve (classic)

February 24, 2010 by rachel

This classic post originally ran in March 2009, and the topic frequently comes up for many. Even you, perhaps? A few tips to ease your way… Wow! A lot of people are in the thick of it right now — not only dealing with economic turmoil and loss, but also working on deeper levels to clear their lives of anything that no longer serves them. There’s more clutter in your life than what you see in your closets! Fact is, […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, love, personal growth, transformation • Tags: empowerment, letting go, relationships

transformative poetry for the willing

November 10, 2009 by rachel

your regrets and disappointments, let them go missteps and infelicities, cast them aside indiscretions of the past mean nothing now and if you insist on lugging them along in some ersatz act of Sisyphusian heroics your feet will fail you and you may never arrive leaking baggage is no longer de rigueur as proof of your wounded eccentricities, the weight of these badges has inspissated your soul! elevate yourself let each sodden sack tumble over the transom these millstones are […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, love, personal growth, planetary shifts, poetry, spirituality, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, change, consciousness, higher consciousness, letting go, life, new paradigm, opening heart

letting go of relationships that no longer serve you: a primer

March 7, 2009 by rachel

Wow! A lot of people are in the thick of it right now — not only dealing with economic turmoil and loss, but also working on deeper levels to clear their lives of anything that no longer serves them. There’s more clutter in your life than what you see in your closets! Fact is, though, not all of us have the basic tools for disconnecting from friends, professional associates, family members, jobs, housemates, and others who might have been part […]

Categories: body mind & spirit, health/healing, inspiration, personal growth, transformation • Tags: ascension, awakening, body mind & spirit, higher consciousness, inspiration, letting go, new paradigm, personal development, personal growth, relationships, transformation

hold on & let go: which part don’t you understand?

April 26, 2008 by rachel

Here’s the mantra for these paradoxical times: Hold On & Let Go! If you’ve been carrying a dream, vision, or plan for what seems like an eternity, and you’re feeling worn out, exhausted, or experiencing a few minor twangs of hopelessness, Hold On! On the other hand, if you’re glued to an outmoded idea or mental construct that no longer nourishes, feeds, or exhilirates you, then by all means, Let Go! The trick is to do both at the same […]

Categories: inspiration, transformation • Tags: dreams, holding on, inspiration, letting go, life, manifesting, visions