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EPISODE OVERVIEW: Acceptance, Presence, Bliss
Hosted by Fiona Bicknell.
In this episode, Fiona delves into the energies of September, encouraging listeners to embrace heart-centered experiences and moments of pure bliss. Drawing from Akashic guidance, Fiona discusses the transformative potential of accepting ourselves as we are, highlighting how this acceptance unlocks presence and bliss. She emphasizes the cyclical nature of life, where idealistic moments of happiness are fleeting but always available to us in small, significant bursts. This episode invites listeners to cultivate deeper connection and awareness of the energy around them, guiding them towards greater fulfillment and vitality.
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
September is a month focused on heart healing, connection, and experiencing bliss in small, meaningful moments.
Acceptance of the self is key to unlocking presence and accessing deeper states of joy and bliss.
Life's ideal moments are not permanent, but they are always available to us through conscious presence and acceptance.
Fiona emphasizes that achieving a perfect life isn’t necessary to experience happiness – it's about accessing the inherent perfection that exists in each moment.
Presence and acceptance of our current circumstances lead to progress and alignment with the universal flow of love.
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Hello.
Welcome to September.
This is actually a re-record.
I recorded this originally yesterday.
And I think it was a little bit of a, it was the last day of Mercury retrograde, and I think Mercury was some, all the planets were playing a bit of a trick on me.
And I'm using a microphone for the first time.
I normally just record these straight into my phone.
And I decided it was time that I take it a little bit more seriously.
And I was using a microphone and the battery went dead halfway through the recording, and I lost half of it.
So here I am re-recording a day later now that Mercury is direct.
Just trusting that maybe I said something yesterday I wasn't supposed to, or I didn't pick up on something I was supposed to.
And but anyway, here we are.
If you are tuning in to this energy forecast for the first time, if you haven't listened to one of these before, I just want to take a quick moment to introduce myself and let you know a little bit about these recordings and the intention behind them.
I am Fiona.
I'm an integrated coach.
And my approach is really rooted in exploring different systems of ancient wisdom and looking at the teachings that we can apply to our modern world to help us create more health and well-being and vitality and connection and fulfillment and abundance and all of those lovely things.
And one of the practices that I work a lot with is Akashic guidance.
And most of the time, I work with this in a one-to-one capacity.
So I'm generally doing private readings for people, and most of my time goes towards private readings for people when I'm working with the Akash.
And you might have heard of this referred to as having your Akashic records read.
But essentially, the word Akash is a Sanskrit word, and directly translated, it means the sky.
And but the way that it is taught or the way that it has been taught to me, is that the Akash refers to the ether.
It is the nothingness around us from which everything originates.
And so it really is that, yeah, the nothingness around us is actually not nothing at all.
It is that from which everything is born, that anything that becomes manifest in this world, it begins as this kind of like nothing energy.
And so to read the Akash or to work with the Akash for guidance is to tune into the energy around us.
And so how this works in a one-to-one session is I'm picking up on the energy of a person because, I mean, you have to remember at the end of the day, we're just made up of energy.
That's it.
There is actually nothing solid or fixed about you.
You were just trillions of tiny, tiny little minuscule vibrating particles, and you're in constant reaction to the energy around you and constantly responding to everything that you come into contact with or come into connection with through the energetic body.
And so what I'm doing when I'm working with the Akashas, I'm tuning into the energy of a person.
And that gives me a few things.
Oftentimes, I will pick up on the potential that is available to someone based on their kind of energetic makeup.
And you might even describe this as someone's purpose.
Here's what's available to you to contribute to the world, to offer to the world or to create for yourself.
And then also it's tuning into the energy surrounding an individual.
So what are the situations they currently find themselves in the connections that they're in, and what is being made available to them, or what is the potential of the energy they're coming into connection with, and what can they do with it?
Like what is being asked of them, or what is the opportunity that is being presented?
And these monthly energetic readings are intended to try and offer some of that guidance in a broader way, in a collective way, to show us that we, or to remind us that we are all connected, to remind us that we all do experience things together at times, and how we each experience the energy around us, or the energy of the moment, or the environment, or our society.
How we each experience it might be different, and how it presents in our lives might be different, but the feeling that often goes with it is something that connects us.
And I feel so incredibly lucky that I get to see almost like the proof of this in my one-to-one sessions, that I have all of these interactions with clients on an individual level, and it helps show me the patterns of how everyone does experience things at the same time.
It helps me see the trends in what it is that people are moving through and learning.
And yeah, so the intention of these readings is twofold.
One, it's to show us that we are all connected, to remind us that we're all connected and that we're all in this together, and you're not alone in whatever it is that you're going through.
And two, it's to offer some guidance, to try and share some information that might help make sense of what people are feeling and what people are experiencing that they don't necessarily have words for.
And this is in part why I actually have quite a bit of trouble often explaining what Akashic guidance is because it really is tapping into the things that we don't have, we often don't have words for.
And these are the things that we all feel or innately know or experience on an intuitive level, but we might not know how to explain them and things that come up for us as a felt sense.
So the intention here is to try and put some, offer some clarity to the things that we might all be collectively feeling and moving through.
And then to offer some suggested actions to take, to work with the energy of the moment, to work with what is happening within our collective.
So that is the intention here.
And with that, I'm going to jump straight into September and what it is that we have coming up.
So the first thing I got is just, September is about the heart.
It is all about the heart.
So be prepared for me to get a little bit gooey right now and a little bit in the fields because that's really the sense I'm getting.
And I know that cancer season is well and truly done.
We're in Virgo season now, but it is a little bit of like that cancer mushiness that I was getting.
And I'm not going to lie, I'm a total sucker for this.
I'm a cancer son, Mercury in cancer, Venus in cancer, descendant in cancer.
So this is right up my alley.
So if I get a bit like gooey, yeah, just bear with me.
But that is the feeling I'm getting for the month.
September is all about the heart.
It's heart healing, it's heart opening, it's heart-centered experiences.
And it's this like lovely gooeyness of all in the fields and having these experiencing maybe these really lovely idyllic moments.
And that isn't me saying that the entire month is just going to be pure bliss.
Not at all.
But I do get the sense that what is coming are these little moments or these pockets where we experience our own heart or the heart of others or the connectivity of the heart or of love in general in these really, really big ways, in these ways that feel almost like overwhelming.
Like the feeling I get when I really tune into it is like, oh, God, it's so big.
It's really big.
It's like, you know, if you like visit somewhere new in nature or and you sometimes have that feeling of being like, oh, my God, I'm like a speck in this.
When you find yourself in these moments of awe or maybe you hear a song that touches on something or some words spoken that remind you of some kind of like your body responds in a way that it reminds you of like the truth of something.
It just feels like we are being opened up to have moments of that in really, really big ways and really quite profound ways that could really help to change our perspective on the world, to help us see our lives differently.
And I know that might feel or sound very lofty and grand, but that's what I'm getting.
And so if we backtrack a little bit, July, we had this, July was very much about kind of like clearing old energies and old challenging, like painful emotions that were trapped in the body.
It was like opening ourselves back up, like our walls were up because we had all of this old hurt.
And July felt like this time for release of all that, that was kind of out of our control.
And then last month in August was all about building this resilience around keeping the body in this new open space.
A lot of what I was talking about last time was teaching ourselves that it's safe to be open, to lead and move through the world from a different space, to be more vulnerable.
And then it feels a little bit like what September brings for us is the payoff in a way, the reward, the showing us like, here's what you get to experience when you lead life from this place.
These moments of pure bliss where all of a sudden, everything seems to come together, and you're just reminded of the perfection of life.
And once again, I am not saying that this is a steady state or a consistent space that we will find ourselves in through September.
It is really moments because there is a lesson in all of this as well.
It's trying to show us something.
It's trying to teach us something.
And it is to understand that life is perfect, always, always, always life is perfect, and that underneath everything that we experience is love.
Again, I know I sound ridiculously cheesy, but I do not care because it feels really important.
This, like, the lesson in this feels really important, that we have to understand that no matter what it is that we experience, no matter what it is that we're going through, the truth of everything underneath it all is that life is perfect and blissful and idyllic, and that that is actually always there at the base of everything.
But we're not always going to feel it, we're not always going to experience it, we're not always going to be in the space that we have access to that knowing or that feeling.
And it feels a little bit like the lesson is to drop any belief that we are moving in a linear way towards creating more of this idealism for ourselves.
So it's almost like the thing I get is that there is this almost like a subliminal message that has made its way into our collective and into our culture, that we all somehow subconsciously believe that we are doing the hard things and that we are moving through all of the challenges because eventually we're going to get to this place where life becomes ideal, that what we're doing is we're building a life, and we're building a life, and that eventually there will be an arrival point, and that arrival point will be that we find ourselves in a place where everything's just kind of like hunky-dory and great and lovely all the time.
And I know that consciously most of us don't believe this, right?
But there's like this subconscious driving force that there's something that feels almost like it's pushing us forward in the hope that we are eventually going to find ourselves in this place where everything is ideal.
And if that is a belief that we are operating upon, the lesson here is to come to recognize that we will be sorely disappointed, that that is actually not the way, that's not the way life operates.
That that idealism and that feeling or that access to the feeling of perfection, it's always available to us, but it's like we will experience these little moments of access to it, as little reminders that keep us going.
And so it's always there.
You don't have to achieve anything to be able to experience the perfection of life or the bliss of life.
You don't have to make it to any big milestone before you're allowed to experience that bliss.
You don't have to create the perfect life on paper before you create the right circumstances or environment to experience those feelings.
That it's actually something that, oh God, how do I explain this?
It's like it's within our control, but it's beyond our control.
It's going to come at times and it's going to be taken away from us at times.
But there is then a way, what's being shown to us right now is how we can, we can't always hold ourselves in that place, but we can find like tools and different approaches to life that are going to help us access that feeling in a greater capacity or more frequently.
And so in this sense, there's three key words that I get.
And I'm going to suggest that you hold these words in mind over the next day or the next few weeks or whatever it is, maybe write them down somewhere.
And the words are acceptance, presence, and bliss.
And this is when we accept ourselves for who we are and where we are at in life, we are able to be more present.
It brings us into presence.
And when we are present, we have access to this feeling of bliss.
But it all starts with acceptance.
And so so much of the theme of this month is around acceptance of the self.
And so that of those three words, that's like your keyword acceptance.
That's the word to take with you through the month, acceptance, acceptance, acceptance.
And it is really truly like in the greatest way, it is acceptance of the self.
Because when we accept the self, it becomes so much easier to accept all other people, all circumstances around us, all challenges that we come up against.
And that we first of all have to accept ourselves for who we are, and how we are, and where we are in life.
And then the other line that comes to mind here that I want to share as well, is presence equals progress.
And in particular, it reminds me of Freud's theory of the death drive.
And if you're not familiar with this, it essentially is what he proposed is that we have a desire, we seek that desire, we receive that desire, and then our desire is transfixed on to the next thing, and then the next thing, and then the next thing, and then the next thing, and then the next thing.
And we will never be fully satisfied, because we will always want something more than what we have.
And it's called the death drive, because it takes us all the way through until death, until we die.
That that is just part of being human, is that we are led by desire, and that desire is never fully satisfied.
And I'm not saying I necessarily agree with that theory, or disagree with that theory, but it comes to mind here in the context of this line, and presence equals progress.
Because it feels like when we allow ourselves to be more present, we experience more of that bliss, or we set ourselves up to have greater access to that bliss, or that feeling of like deep, deep, I am going to say deep, deep love, like this universal kind of love, that all life is perfect, nature is perfect, we are part of nature, therefore we are perfect, like these moments of perfection.
When we are present, we set ourselves up to have greater access to that feeling or to experience that feeling.
And it is in the moments that we experience that feeling that we are propelled forward.
We want to create more of it, so we want to keep going, we want to experience it more, we want to have more access to it, so we keep striving forward, we keep progressing, we keep growing.
And this now, this presence is progress, really is about like personal progress, progress of the self, self-development, because we want to experience more of that bliss.
So we keep working on ourselves, and we keep working on ourselves, and we become a better person.
And when we become better people, we do better things in the world.
And when we all do better things in the world, everyone benefits, and the whole world moves forward.
And I know I'm being incredibly idealistic right now, but yeah, it feels like that's what this month is about, or that's what the energy of this moment is about, reminding us of idealism, that no, life isn't always going to be ideal.
But it is available to us to create a little bit more of it, and a little bit more of it, and a little bit more of it.
And it starts with acceptance, acceptance of the self.
So that's our overall theme for the month.
And now I'm going to go through and break this down into three key areas.
I'm going to talk a little bit about vocation, health, and then relationships, and how it is we can work with this energy in each of these three areas of life.
So the first is vocation.
And I'm very, it is very considered the word I use here.
I don't say career.
I do choose vocation because I believe a vocation is, well, let me backtrack a bit.
I am someone who holds the belief that we are all here to be of service, that part of the purpose of being on this planet and being a human at this point in time is to contribute, is to support each other.
And I also believe that we each have our own unique way that we can be of service to the world.
And it's going to look different for every person.
And then I also believe that the way that we can be of greatest service is when we allow ourselves to lead the life that feels most true to us.
And so the word vocation sums that up for me, is that your offering to the world or what you do in the world is completely tied with who you are in the world or who you are here to be in the world, that they are one and the same.
So if we take this theme of acceptance into our vocation, there's an exercise for us here.
That, okay, how do I describe this?
You might have heard me speak before about desires and the way the Buddha spoke about desire.
He said have few desires, but have great ones.
And I'm mentioning this here because in the context of vocation and acceptance of ourselves, our desire, like our desires around the lifestyle we want to live, is the thing to focus on here this month.
And this isn't about mental desires.
This is about getting into the body, getting into the heart space, and really feeling into what is the lifestyle I yearn for.
Think of that word yearning.
It is like a bodily longing.
What does my body crave?
What kind of life do I want to lead?
And it feels like now is the moment to accept that, for acceptance of the life that you are craving to live, the lifestyle that you yearn to lead.
And yeah, that acceptance is also permission.
So the three steps to take here, that the exercise here is, number one, what is the lifestyle I am yearning for?
Put it down on paper.
What life do I desire to lead for myself?
And really, truly do what you can to try and get into the body here, get out of the head.
We don't want to be putting down things that the ego mind thinks is going to make us feel good.
You want to feel into the body, like down into the gut, even into the heart space, like what comes from like this deep place of like, I really, truly desire this.
And for some of us, it might be things that we haven't allowed ourselves to say out loud.
We haven't allowed ourselves to admit that that's actually what I really want.
So putting down on paper, what is the lifestyle that I deeply, deeply desire and yearn for?
Then the second step here is, who in the world has this already?
And this doesn't have to be someone you know personally.
And they might not have the exact lifestyle that you want, but can you identify some people in the world that are living the life that you desire or something close to or from the outside, it might look like the life that you desire for yourself?
And list out those people.
Doesn't matter if it's one or 10 or however many, just whoever comes to mind.
And then your third step is to respond or answer these two questions.
The first question is, why are they allowed to have it?
Why are they allowed to lead this life?
And the second question is, why am I not allowed to have this life?
Or what might live in my mind that is trying to tell me that's not available to me?
And my hope is that there's nothing in the mind that says I'm not allowed to have it.
But if there happens to be something there, can you put it down on paper to show yourself that it's bullshit, to show yourself that it's not true, that you are allowed to have it?
That if that desire is in you, it's there for a reason.
That actually what if the way that you can be of greatest service to the world and have the greatest impact on the collective is when you actually allow yourself to follow that desire, to act on that desire.
It might be just the thing, the very thing that's going to help you do the most good in the world.
Yeah, so they are three questions, or your three actions.
That's the exercise, the three-part exercise.
What is the lifestyle I deeply desire?
Who in the world has this already?
And then those two questions, why are they allowed to have it and why am I not allowed to have it?
And I want you to pay particular attention here on that second point, when you're defining people that seem to lead the life, if you want or have aspects of the life you're looking for, pay attention to where there might be jealousy.
Pay attention to the people that annoy you.
Anyone that you can think of that's doing something in the world that, sure, is impressive, but there's a part of you that kind of wants to turn your nose up or go like, oh, that's showing you something.
I hate to say it, but that's your own shit.
That's, you know, jealousy is often just giving us information.
It's showing us what we want for ourselves, but we haven't allowed for ourselves.
And so, yeah, pay attention to where you feel any jealousy.
It is very valuable information.
Okay, so that's vocation.
Moving on to health.
This is, this is about doing a stock take.
Again, this theme of acceptance, acceptance of the self.
And we want to actually look at where we are accepting ourselves and where we are not.
And so there's two lists I'm going to suggest to be created here.
The first is a list of all of the behaviors around my health and well-being that are driven by self-love, driven by a love of the self.
And then the second list is all of the behaviors connected to my health and well-being that are driven by a lack of self-love.
And some of these might be pretty nuanced.
Some of these might be about almost like it could be, which perspective do I want to take?
Maybe you are someone who, I don't know, does a hit workout at the gym four days a week.
And for one person, that might be something that lights them up and feels amazing and they love doing it, and they spring out of bed and can't wait to get to the gym.
For the other person, it might come from a place of, I really dislike my body and I'm not doing enough, and I should be doing more, and they're being hard on themselves, and they're forcing themselves to go and do this thing that actually doesn't make them feel good.
So this is going to be incredibly personal.
And it's about being really honest with yourself, total acceptance of myself and where I am at and what is driving me.
And can I look at what are the things that I'm doing in my life that are driven by love, and what are the things that I'm doing in my life that are driven by a lack of love for the self?
And I want you to consider here nourishment, food, the way that you fuel your body.
And I want you to consider movement.
I want you to consider social connections.
Consider mindful practices and mental health practices that you might have for yourself.
Consider social media.
Consider television.
Anything that has an impact or is connected to the way that you look after yourself or the ways that you maybe don't look after yourself as well as you would like to.
And without being hard on yourself, this is like acceptance of where I'm at to set myself up to be able to make some changes.
It's incredibly cliched, but we can't make a change until we accept what needs to be changed.
And then the action to take from this is to start just looking at the ways that I can show myself a little bit more love.
This doesn't have to be some big grand commitment.
It doesn't have to be pushing yourself into a new level of discipline.
If you're not ready for it, it's just in every day, again thinking of that other keyword of presents, how can I bring myself into this present moment?
And right here in this very moment, I find myself in, how can I show myself a bit more love?
It might be as simple as today, I'm not going to put sugar in my coffee.
Or maybe tonight, I'm going to cook myself a really lovely meal.
Or tonight, I'm going to invite a friend over and I'm going to cook for both of us.
Or it might be, I'm not going to go and do that intense workout today.
I'm going to go and have a nice gentle walk instead.
It might be, I'm going to read my book tonight instead of watching More Love Island, which is something I've been trying to do.
Yeah, it's simple things.
What are the little things like, how can I show myself a little bit more love and a little bit more love and a little bit more love in every moment?
And leading us to this place of greater acceptance of the self.
My hope is that in doing this, it might start to build some new habits for you that become, yeah, it just becomes easier and easier to move from a place of love of the self.
Okay, so the final area of life, relationships.
This is really simple.
I just got the line, just be loving.
That's it.
Just be loving.
What's the most loving thing I can do?
And I know that we probably all have the intention to be loving people.
We probably all have the intention to be kind and compassionate and consider it as much as we can.
But what happens when we put a focus on it, when we bring awareness to it, in every interaction, with every person that we come across, with every person we're in connection with, what is the most loving thing I can do right now?
What is the most loving way I can deliver this?
What is the most loving way I can offer this?
I don't know, feedback, guidance, request.
And I kind of want to pose this as a bit of a challenge.
Like, what if every person who is currently listening to this makes a commitment to show more love to other people?
Like, how impactful might that be if we collectively do it?
I just believe it's so contagious.
Yeah.
And this isn't me saying, put others before yourself.
I want to be really clear about that.
The first place to show love is to the self, without a doubt, that this doesn't mean, oh, this person is behaving really poorly towards me and causing me hurt, and I'm just going to love them anyway.
I am kind of suggesting find how you can love someone, even like accept them for who they are and where they're at, and see, challenge yourself, can I find love for them, even when they're behaving in this way, but that does not mean accepting the behavior.
So the first thing, the first step is always show love to the self.
So if someone is behaving poorly towards me or causing me hurt, what's the most loving thing I can do for myself?
And for some people it might be, I have to remove myself from that situation.
Okay, then how can I do that in the most loving way?
Or for, you know, it might be, okay, I need to have a conversation.
That's the most loving thing I can do for myself is speak up.
Okay, if I'm going to speak up, how can I do that in the most loving way?
Showing the most love in doing that.
And I want to suggest bringing some, or like contemplating a little bit on that, on the ways in which this can still be really powerful, that being gentle, or soft, or loving in your delivery of things doesn't equal weakness.
It doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be taken advantage of, or walked all over, or people are going to see it as something they can take advantage of, or a situation that they can make work in their favor.
It's, find the strength in it, or see if you can, yeah, explore the ways in which you might be able to teach the mind how being loving is actually the strongest, or carries like the most power in the way you carry yourself through your relationships.
I believe it is the key to, this is going to sound maybe a little manipulative, not intentional, but I believe it is kind of the key to getting what we want, or creating the kind of harmony that we all seek in our connections, is offer more love.
When people feel loved, they're more receptive, they're more open.
When people feel considered, they're more understanding.
And so even if it's people who you disagree with, how can you offer something in such a way that I'm sharing it with love and therefore, maybe that's my best way of actually getting someone who doesn't understand me to be open to hearing me as well, rather than leading with frustration or anger or disappointment.
And I'm not saying there's anything wrong with those emotions, let yourself feel those 100 percent.
But yeah, can we practice leading from that loving place and showing ourselves that that's actually the way we can have the greatest power to create harmony.
Okay, so that's that's our three areas.
That's our theme for the month.
I hope that this has felt useful in some capacity.
I have a little bit of a request to leave us with this month.
I have just recently put these recordings on Spotify and Apple.
And this is not something I saw coming, I'm not going to lie.
I first put this, the first recording I did like this was in January, and this is kind of the way I operate.
Things come intuitively, and I just kind of go, okay.
And I just had the sense of I was seeing some patterns that everyone was kind of going through some things together.
And it just felt like, I don't know, the correct next step to record that and share it.
And I didn't really know how I was going to share it or who it was going to be for, but I just went with it.
And over the past eight months, it's become something that feels very aligned for the work that I am doing and for what I want to be sharing with people.
And this just felt like the natural next step to put it in places where it can reach more people.
And so my request is that if you, well, if I say if there is someone you believe might enjoy listening to this or benefit from listening to this, when I say that, if there is someone that comes to mind, my request is that you share, if it feels good, only if it feels good.
Yeah, can you share the episode with someone and pass it on?
Okay, I think that's it.
The other couple of things, sorry.
No, there's more.
Sunday church, I've started teaching an online kundalini class.
It's meditation and breath work.
It's every Sunday online.
And this month in September, we will be focusing on all meditations to open the heart more and get more into the heart space to set us up to receive more.
And so that's every Sunday.
And then the September calendar is also now open to book one-to-one Akashic sessions if that feels of interest.
And then finally, as always, if you have feedback, if you have notes, if you have questions, I am always really open to hearing all of it.
So please feel free to send me a DM or send me an email.
I hope you have a beautiful month ahead that is full of all the gooey feels and moments of pure bliss.
I am sending you so much love.
