Ellie Irie

Ellie Irie! How to even start describing you and all that you mean in my life and your parent’s life. You came to this world through the ebbs and flow of peace and pain. From your mom reaching the heavens with her vocal chords and the concentration of all her energy on to you, while the sky was lighting up, releasing its potential energy, to the peaceful, silent moments of the breaks between each contraction.

Your parents had built the nest and the pool for you to come into a cozy place in this world and chose the best guides to guide them through the process of bringing you in.

I didn’t see your mom give birth to you but I felt it so clearly. Part of my energy was connected to yours. I was cheering for your mom, screaming to my insides, “Vamo Lauren!!!!” Lauren and every mom of the world, you guys are amazing! You guys are the miracle together with the new born. I thought playing rugby, tackling someone as hard as I could or even breaking my knee’s ligaments or my nose was tough. Not even close. Women are the tough ones. No man will ever experience what a woman experiences when giving birth. Ellie Irie, your coming into this world through your mom was one of the most humbling and magical experience I have ever felt.

The process was magical. The day started with your mom singing and ohming to tune up her body for the experience. The ohmings were in tune with the contractions. The contractions slowly built up and got closer together as the day advanced. The expectaction was elevating. Lauren was getting ready. At around 4:30pm the mid wife arrived and half an hour later the doula arrived was ready. Mom, dad, the midwife and the doula were ready for the ceremony. The contractions were in the few minute ranges and the pain was elevating exponentially. Lauren in the birth tub, Chris holding her hand and documenting the experience and Vicky and Naty orchestrating all the efforts based on Lauren’s body reactions.

After one hour and a half of your mom going through a Trans of pain and peace, Ellie Irie you were born. Coming out of your mom, into the warm water and then into the air. You took your first breath! Your mom told you “I love you so much, Ellie Irie!” You gently cried, understanding this new way of being by breathing. Then you were peaceful in your parents nest. The storm had passed. The rain fell gently on the house’s roof. The house was filled with the new family’s peace. I wept of happiness outside the door and Elkita arrived to feel the magical energy.

You were born 7:21pm on July 7^th of 2015 in Atenas, Alajuela, Costa Rica.

Welcome Ellie Irie! Happy 2^nd day on this Earth!

Documenting the journey

I am back to the writing! This time, the time frame is indefinite, the posts will be every 2 or 3 days and I will share my craziness in several formats and ways.

After I stopped the writing a couple of weeks ago, I went into a little depression period. My creative outlet was closed. I even cut all my hair off as a way of creating another creative outlet. That was a one-time thing, so not really a sustainable outlet. It was a little bit of a roller coaster.

New look, same craziness!

 Elkita told me to keep on writing but I was thinking there was something else to fill in that space since I was having so many ideas while writing the previous blog season. The flux of ideas started overwhelming me because I did not know where to start and my heart was closing. I was flying to high without knowing how to land. This time around I am practicing the landing as well!

Yesterday, while working with Mauricio Bruce a medicine man that works on Energy Medicine and Shamanic Healing here in Costa Rica, it was clear that I needed to continue my writing, as Elkita had mentioned, and use this as my baseline to fulfill and expand my creative side that is always longing to express itself. So here I am and I am grateful to be back. Mauricio also taught me some grounding exercises to help me follow through on my ideas.

After the session with Mauricio, Elkita and I were joking. We were saying “you had to go pay for a shamanic session while your wife was already telling you what to do all the way!” hehe. Sometimes the wisdom that comes from the closest source is the wisest but the hardest to hear. Hence, learning how to listen to our hearts it our deepest and wisest teaching.

I will be collaborating with other awareness bringers to broaden my perspectives and to be able to share deeper insights of this magical, galactic journey called life. Stay tuned!

For everyone that has been following the previous post season, you might be aware that Lauren and Chris are already at home and Ellie Irie is almost with us in this world! We can feel the magic in the air. Lauren is super calm and happy and Chris is maintaining the base line. Ellie Irie come meet us! There even is a birth tub in the bedroom that Lauren will sit in when she is in labor and giving birth.

Birth tub in the nest.

Blessings family!

PS: I started a Facebook page with my artistic name, Naya Supercamp. I will consolidate my posts in this page.  

Unas palabras de luz.

Hagan click para ver el video de Chris compartiendo sus pensamientos. Blessings.

El poder de ser quien realmente somos
Posted by Holistic Health & Wellness with Chris Campbell on Miércoles, 1 de julio de 2015

Thank YOU! – Day 30

Hello, hello, hello everyone! I am writing today to say thank you! This is day 30 of this 30 day writing commitment and I wanted to thank everyone that is part of this journey. Talking to people about subjects that came up in my posts has been amazing! And just the out flow of creativity has been amazing  as well.

I know that this is just the beginning phase of something else, but I cannot help to feel sad that this little project is finishing. It is amazing to see how this little outward expression of myself has added such a big and new dimension in my day to day life. I feel like I have been connecting more with everyone and with myself. I have been feeling flowier, hehe.

The main teaching that I take out from this project is that doing something creative that I love every day of my life makes me happier, makes me more aware, makes me more connected and puts me closer to my true self. Probably there are a million other positive benefits of doing something like this that I cannot really see or understand.

These days the internet gives us a platform to be our own media and by everyone being their own media people get exposed to a greater variety of REAL medias that exist in the world, not only the big corporation driven media and propaganda. The internet gives as a platform for freedom of speech that can be accessed by anyone.

Today is to say thank you! Thank you for the times in which we are living. Thank you for the potential of human kind, thank you for the internet that brings awareness, thank you that we are not scared of taking leaps of faith and exploring reality, thank you that we are consciously creating reality, thank you for everyone in my life that guides me through my passage, thank you for everyone that supports me when I fall, thank everyone for looking for their passions and thank YOU for being YOU! There is no one like you and you are a very important piece of this puzzle.

I am going to take a couple of days to let everything sink in and soon you will hear back from me. I am already thinking about the next challenge and idea. Stay tuned.

Jah Bless!

Thank you.

 

Unusual Sunday, its Father's day here in Costa Rica - Day 29

Oh Sunday! The night was really warm. I set up the fan from the innovation cave so we would not sweat into the sheets. Once the fan was on, the night became really enjoyable. Before going to bed I turned on the computer to try and write yesterday's blog but my brian's connections were not functioning right. What I wanted to write about yesterday was that I had one too many jeje. We had a little party with friends yesterday!

We woke up with the fan still on which made it nice to stay a little longer in bed even though it was still pretty hot. After waking up we headed down stairs to start preparing a nice little Sunday breakfast. I was reaching for the blender's blades and the rest of its pieces from the drying rack. In one of my turns, I accidentaly bumbed the blender's container, which is made out glass. It bounced off the counter and was flying to the ground. In a reflexive attempt to save it I extended my leg to try and catch it before it hit the ground, but in the same reflective movement I realized I was not going to make it so I removed my foot from the impact zone. While the blender's container was shattering against the ground I was balancing myself in an awkward position and while trying to re gain balance I scraped my foot against one of the pieces of glass on the floor and blood inmediately started flowing out. The cut stung and my foot was full of blood. I could not tell how deep or large the cut was. Elkita helped me clean it up and even though there was quite a bit of blood coming out, the cut was pretty small. Elkita cleaned it up with some soap and water and I put some pressure on it until the blood flow was small. Then Elkita patched me up. All is good now.

All patched up by Elkita

To add to this story. In the process of getting the soap and water and band aids, Elkita realized that Lupe had gone to do number two  in the night in our downstrairs bathroom. We could not help but laugh about how this day had started. Before anything happened Elke was going to tell me how she liked our systems to start the day off, with breakfast for example but then all this happend. Either way our systems helped us take care of everything pretty quickly and still prepare a delicious breakfast.

Today is fathers day here in Costa Rica. I am very blessed to have a father that has guided me and supported me all my life. He was strict in some of his ways when he was raising us which made me become strong in a lot of aspects. He also gave me a lot of freedom while growing up as well. He now is calm and has a lot of self love. He is one of the persons that does not let his mind sabbotage him that much. He is self assured. He finds the wisdom from within. And has a great inner and core strength. What I cherish the most about my Dad is that he is always there to lend me a hand. I know that he will always be there for me. Feliz dia Pa! Happy day to all the fathers out there.

My mentor, supporter and friend from the beginning.

Another great teaching I had from my Reiki teacher was to always be open to the wisdom of our elders. To all my elders thanks for sharing the wisdom.

Blessings and happy Sunday family!

Fall in tune with the Universe – Day 28

Good morning family! Happy Friday to everyone around the world! Here in Atenas the day is beautiful! We stayed in bed a little longer and then prepared an awesome breakfast with a big green smoothie, some warn tortillas con queso and a delicious Costa Rican coffee. Elke is working from home today so it feels like the weekend already. The energies in the house are really lively and happy!

A couple of weeks ago we received a new table that came from Elke’s grandma’s house. It’s lovely. You can feel its energy! So we moved the other table that was downstairs up into a little loft area that we were not using that much and now it became the inspiration cave! We had to buy a little fan to keep the area cool since the area has no windows and the days are getting hotter and hotter due to the lack of rain. We need the rain! It seems like it’s all falling in Texas right now. Texans stay safe and harvest water!

I just finished texting with Anne, Elke’s sister who is doing an internship in Germany, and our chat just triggered a new set of thoughts in my brain. She brought up the Letting myself flow post and at the same time I was looking for a 432 Hz spiritual music on Youtube to listen to while writing. The thoughts or concepts that came up in my brain where “frequency” and “rhythm”.

Why 432 Hz spiritual music? A Mexican Guru that we met on our honeymoon travels through la Quebrada de Humahuaca in the province of Jujuy in the North West of Argentina, explained to us that 432 Hz frequency music is healing, connecting music. When he said that, my being received that information as full truth and at this moment I am experiencing that truth! Another interesting fact of the story is that the Mexican Guru’s name is Imix which means The Beginning.

Obviously, rhythm and frequency make me think about music and how music has been around us forever and how music, I know just for myself, has a direct relationship with happiness. I feel like music is a way of tuning a human being. We tune a guitar or an instrument to then tune ourselves. And we listen to music to tune ourselves as well. Try singing, or dancing. They are great personal tuners.

But rhythm and frequency do not only show up in music but they are the underlying truth about all Existence! Waaaaa! We go to bed once a day, we wake up once a day, we normally eat 3 times a day, more or less, we go do number 2 more or less once a day, the sun rises once a day and sets once a day, the moon has its own cycle as well, and the ocean follows this cycle. The winds follow the cycle of the sun, the same as the birds and the same as us. We can observe and feel and be a million different cycles.

The inner revelation that I had is that the universe is always putting us in the rhythm and frequency in which it is at and the perfect rhythm and frequency in which we need to be. The fighting of that is what causes us discomfort, dis-ease, unbalance, so again, I am going to let myself be in the rhythm and frequency that the universe wants me to be. Thanks Anne for sharing you story and creating resonance in my brain, which lead me to connect with deep existential truths.

Happy weekend to everyone! Love is the tuning into every frequency that we feel and feeling compassion within it, I think. And this creates understanding and connection, I think as well.

The inspiration cave.

Fall in tune with the universe and dance and sing to its rhythm. Blessings family!

Changing Habits – Day 27

Alrighty then! Hello everyone! The week is slowly winding down. I feel like I am winding down myself. I made myself not drink mate yesterday because I felt I had drank too much the day before and because I don’t want my body to depend on it. It was a rough day. I had a hard time staying awake in front of the computer, so I am guessing that my body indeed is a bit addicted to it. I was going to do the same thing today but I think I am going to drink a bit instead so I can actually be awake and do stuff. When I feel tired like this I look at a bed or a couch and the idea of falling asleep seems so nice!!! But the water for the mate is heating up and soon I will be full speed. I will try to slowly get off of it or drink a little bit less a day. However, I love mate and I love the ritual that comes with drinking it so it will always be around me. I just don't want to abuse it.

This morning and last night I meditated on some little couches we have on our front porch. It was beautiful, soothing and relaxing. I think I had a great sleep due to that meditation. Also, all this inward and creative practice have kept my emotions in check. I am not getting anxious, I am not getting over excited (well maybe when I learn something AWESOME I get over excited), I am not getting overwhelmed much lately and I didn’t even cry when Uruguay lost against Argentina two days ago. I guess I will really test this when I have to go to the Water Department to ask them if they could fix a water pipe that is leaking right outside of my house. It will be fine.

Mate water is ready!

Yesterday we went to the supermarket with Elkita and got a bunch of produce. I have been reading Mariana’s and Chris’ posts and they are both mentioning detox and they are both mentioning a lot of green smoothies. Green smoothies are better than all fruit smoothies because they have less sugar, they have more fiber and the greens have some kind of component that keep you energized and craving less foods for longer periods of time. Sugar gives you a high but also a low that makes you crave food quicker. Sugar in general causes inflammation in our body and this inflammation is what prevents our body from functioning properly and eventually creating diseases. Sugar in not just sugar cane or fruit sugar but it’s also the sugar the body creates when quickly processing processed simple carbs like flour. I started seeing processed simple carbs as a body cocaine since they gives the body a sugar rush and then the body needs more. I notice this when I eat chips. I cannot stop eating them, so I don’t buy them. Remember when I talked about creating our environments? This is an example. Not buying foods that harm you so we are not tempted to eat them. Full stocked pantries with a bunch of processed goodies are a curse and the worst temptation.

A funny story is that while growing up, my mom used to buy sweet stuff to keep in the pantry and the stuff would disappear in less than half a day. It was three growing boys in the house. My mom learned fast and stopped buying sweet stuff. We never had Coke, we never had cookies, we never had sweet cornflakes, and we never had ice-cream. Well we actually would have ice-cream every once in a while but Tommy would eat up the entire quart in one sitting. We also used to buy sweet yogurt and I was the one in charge of finishing the quart before anyone else was awake in the house. I am glad my mom learned fast. I think this decision of having a non-sugar and non-processed addictive foods in our pantry helped us be healthier today. Thanks mom!

I am not saying cut sugar. I am just saying be moderate. When you make a smoothie incorporate some greens instead of all fruits like I used to do. Now I started with green smoothies. Thanks Mariana and Chris for the great tips.

I also started reading Amateo Ra’s eBook which talk about getting through resistance to evolve into our Higher Selves. I just read the beginning and it is looking pretty interesting.

That’s all for today family! I am trusting the universe is guiding you through your path and that you are constantly shedding layers of conditioning and breaking through resistance to continuously evolve into your higher self.

The mate has definitely woken me up!

Hulk green smoothie glass and mate savior

Blessings!