Self-Acceptance
A Guest Post by Empath KIRA
Self-Acceptance as an empath is this theme of this article by KIRA HESTON. Shortly after writing this beautiful guest post she passed away….
I vividly remember KIRA coming to one of my Energy Spirituality workshops. Meanwhile she was in treatment for cancer. Playfully she would swap out different wigs. Tossing first one, then another, over her mesh wig cap. In the photos at this article, the wig she’s wearing is purple.
Guest posts are an important part of my blog and website. Sadly, by now, this article may be your only chance to meet courageous KIRA.
KIRA’S Words about Self-Acceptance as an Empath
I’ve mentioned elsewhere how disparate parts of my life tend to connect themselves up in interesting ways, and that things I wrote years ago sometimes wind up having even more meaning to the current me — well, here’s a prime example of that.
I was thinking about a recent Energy Spirituality session with Rose as I was drifting to sleep. And because my thoughts were drifting, I wound up wondering if I were to send her a recorded copy of me singing (this was hypothetical), which song would I choose?
And I got a startlingly clear answer that it could be “Spread Your Wings,” which is the only one I have recorded that I actually wrote.
Then Came the Aha!
I was thinking that made sense because it’s the one I wrote, but as I was thinking the words in my head, I had the AHA! — this song was written in 2005 about my not being suicidal any more.
Human Emphasis Was Also a Big Takeaway for Me
From Rose Rosetree’s Enlightenment Basics Teleseminar Series
Editor’s Update in October 2020: Yes, KIRA was one of a small group of students to take my first course as a Enlightenment Coach. Since then I’ve given some in-person workshops with Enlightenment Coaching. Regarding online workshops, this year I published my first series of online lessons: The New Strong Collection of Workshops.
Extra Editor’s Update: KIRA was on her way to Enlightenment. Yet she still had a ways to go. At least two of the other participants have moved into Age of Awakening Enlightenment: CAMERON and EVE are both on this list of my students with that “consciousness lifestyle.”
Introducing My Poem about Self-Acceptance
This poem doesn’t have all the nuances we learned in the Enlightenment course, but I wrote it 10 years ago!
So… here is a recording of this song. It was recorded by Partners in K’RHyme, a duo of myself and my friend Randy Hoffman, from our CD “A Fifth of Vocals.” (It was recorded in 2012, I think.)
Lyrics are below.
Spread Your Wings
Empath KIRA’S Poem, Part I
A foal was born one winter day
With wings, or so the horses say;
They said she’d grow and learn to fly,
Soaring thru the sky.
Her dam was proud of her winged foal
And thought to help her reach the goal
Of flight; when bedtime came along,
She sang this little song:
Dream of flight, my little one;
You’ll reach the stars when you are grown.
Dream well, and in the morning’s light
Spread your wings in flight.
The filly grew into a mare
Without once taking to the air.
She longed to fly, but knew she’d fall;
Her wings were still too small.
She exercised to no avail;
Frustrated, she would swish her tail
And wonder what could be so wrong,
Remembering her mother’s song:
Dream of flight, my little one;
You’ll reach the stars when you are grown.
Dream well, and in the morning’s light
Spread your wings in flight.
Empath KIRA’S Poem, Part II
One day she met another horse,
Who noticed her small wings, of course,
But thought them fine the way they were;
They decorated her.
She came to see them, thru his eyes,
As ornaments for which the size
Was unimportant; she was more
Than just the wings she wore.
Unknown to her, the wings began to grow,
Thriving on her new self-confidence,
Until one day, while running to and fro,
She came across a high barbed-wire fence
Too fast to stop, she jumped
And out of habit pumped
Her wings; to her surprise,
She soared into the skies!
With joy she flew as high as she could go,
Hearing her dam’s voice from long ago:
Dream of flight, my little one;
You’ll reach the stars when you are grown.
Dream well, and in the morning’s light
Spread your wings in flight.
And Maybe the Most Beautiful Part of All
Oh, dream of flight, my broad-winged one;
You’ve reached the stars now you are grown.
You’ve made it thru the dark of night
To spread your wings in flight!
