A Transmission from the Ancient Grandmothers
~ Third Flame in the Fourfold Teaching: “The Flame That Changes Everything” ~
“You have come through fire, and still you rise.”
We are the Grandmothers who sat by the coals when others fled the storm.
We have known loss.
We have known hunger and silence.
We have buried our children and still sung to the moon.
We speak now of Resilience, not as survival alone,
but as the return of Life after sorrow.
Resilience is not hardness. It is flexibility held in love.
It is when you bend and do not break.
It is when your tears fall into the soil and grow medicine.
🌾 Resilience Is in Your Bones
You are here today because your ancestors chose life.
They walked through grief and sang anyway.
They carried sacred seeds across oceans, through deserts,
hidden in hair, stitched in hems, tucked beneath tongues.
You are the blooming of their prayers.
So when you feel weak, remember—
their strength walks with you.
And when you rise after falling,
you are adding to the River of Resilience
that carries the future forward.
🐻 The Story: The Girl and the Hollow Tree
There was once a girl who was shamed for crying too much.
So she hid her tears.
One day, a great sadness came, and she ran into the woods.
There, she found a hollow tree and climbed inside.
She cried until she slept.
When she woke, moss covered her.
The tree had held her.
And when she returned to the village,
she was never afraid to feel again—
for she knew the Earth could hold sorrow and still remain green.
🌼 The Act: The Rooted Breath
When fear or pain comes,
sit or stand with your feet on the ground.
Place your hands on your lower belly and say:
“I am still here.
I am still breathing.
My roots go deep.
My branches will rise again.”
Repeat until the storm within settles.
You do not have to be perfect.
You just have to keep loving.
🌲 The Sacred Truth:
“You are made of stories that did not end in silence.”
Invocation of the Grandmothers’ Flame of Resilience
Grandmothers of Bark and Bone,
Teach me to stand when winds have blown.
Let me root and let me sway,
Let me feel and still not fray.
Make my tears a healing stream,
That I may rise and dream the dream.
When you feel stressed or panicked, you can hug a tree or sit with you back resting against it and it will take away the panic and stress and bring you peace. It takes the energy into the Earth to be transformed and used to help nature.
© Heart Manna 2025
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