The Power of Presence
Healing Through Witnessing and Connection
In this heartfelt message, Chrysta shares a powerful personal experience where a woman found healing simply through Chrysta’s presence and acknowledgment, reinforcing the idea that witnessing others can be a transformative gift. She explores how healing oneself and embracing love not only fosters personal growth but also unconsciously uplifts those around us. Chrysta emphasizes the importance of surrender, resilience, and asking profound questions about life’s purpose, urging listeners to reflect on their deepest longings and how they connect to the divine and the world.
Transcript
I wanted to tell, I had this crazy thing happen. Crazy in quotes, because sometimes the divine has an incredible way of illustrating stuff to us, or repeating itself again and again. So we know this is real. I been getting messages lately about the power of witnessing. They’re saying, no, no, no, you don’t have to do anything, just your presence and speaking into the truth, how healing that is. Understanding the gravity of this work, in part because I’m thinking, well, I don’t, I just let it come through, then I can walk away from it. Realizing the magnitude, hey, you don’t have to do anything, just this presence does something.
I’m sitting in the back of this worship leader program. My dear friend is running, working on. I’m just called to sit there, help him figure out how to organize content. I’m on my computer, no one knows who I am, nobody knows anything about me. There’s a woman in the program, she has this light around her. It’s clear to me this person has a huge calling, she walks in the room, I can see her big old aura. I had a 2 min conversation with her, said a few things, but not enough. She doesn’t know who I am at all. So she walks up to me on Monday, she’s saying, “this is gonna sound really weird, I don’t really know how to say it, but I just want to tell you that your presence here is so healing.” She’s saying, “I know that you see me, just you seen me is a gift from God, I needed to tell you that.” I said, “oh, I do see you.” We got interrupted, but it was clear. It was mind blowing, the message been coming at me from all angles, she doesn’t know me.
It’s a reminder, as you continue on your healing journey, as you heal, many of you have witnessed that as you heal yourself, devote yourself more fully to love, interacting in loving connection with others, not this crusty replay of old patterns, which is how humans without the divine are set up, others rise in love with you unconsciously. There’s a healing, they’re showing a circle, --a hula hoop around you,-- this power to heal just by a steady, loving presence. In doing this work, you’re not fixing yourself so there’s no issue, that’s a prescription to seal yourself up tight with thread, but more fully teaching yourself how to love, how to hold within a bucket a larger capacity for love, for change, for stability when your riding out the more challenging patterns of others around you.
There’s a piece of resilience, not in muscle up, we’re doing this, not feeling anything, but rather in this ability to be fully present, simultaneously be sitting back, watching a pattern unfold. Sometimes sitting back, watching the pattern unfold means that we’re changing the pattern on our end, so the way we interact shifts because we shifted it. Sometimes, more importantly, we just watching the pattern, recognizing there is a pattern. I’m saying, why is that more important? They’re saying, because sometimes in this work we get obsessed with fixing, we rush the process of not fully observing in order to fix. Fixing with a pair of scissors is different than fixing by holding out these palms of love. When we hold out the palms of love, holding someone, things have a tendency to fix themselves.
It’s important to talk about this, because sometimes there’s this question, why am I here? Why am I doing this? Holistically. This work brings more enjoyment, refueling the joy back in life by reminding us of our sense of purpose, our connection to the divine, our connection to all living things around us, recognizing our capacity to change the world just by being the center of love in it. We recognize the power of surrender, not simply the pattern of doing. It’s true, sometimes surrender involves walking forward on a destined path of doing, (that you have to do things on.) But the whole path isn’t in the doing.
There’s a experience here, in particular for this one, and many in this circle. This growth of the heart looks like all these vines going out in the world around you. We’re taking the barren dead grass, and we’re growing lush green vines over the grass, including others that would not normally be included. Many, many ones in this group wear many disguises, heal others around them in settings where you’re not looking -- they’re not in the sweat lodge, in the spiritual circle.-- You’re in disguise in the workplace, in the business, working with children in order to spread the seeds so that you can enrich, expand life.
We wish to say more on why this work is important. There’s all this outward peace, then this inward peace where we are purifying the nature of the soul and going to the deepest level of the heart. These questions on human understanding, and what it means to be alive, are essential to ask. How do we build an infrastructure that honors the divinity of humanity within this world? There’s a lot about life structure that can be said. It’s important to reflect within, so we move away from, we been given the impression –it looks like it’s some plastic fake house, “this is what you want”, a plastic kid’s playhouse-- We’re given this as a life, as an achievement in life. An achievement is achieved by living, by expanding, by growth, and transformation. That transformation is between people as well. So we must ask ourselves in these times how we wish to live and express ourselves, even when forced in this container, --it looks like someone took this plastic house. They painted it a bunch of colors, planted a big garden around it. Okay, you gave me the plastic house-- what am I creating here? What am I longing for? That’s the question that we wish to leave you with on this journey. What am I longing for on this plane? What am I longing for on the deepest internal level, like creativity, and expression of life? What am I longing for here? What am I seeing here every day in the everyday surroundings? Interesting. Okay, I’ll be thinking about that, too.
Meaningful Quotes
"Your presence here is so healing, and I know that you see me."
Spoken by a woman in Chrysta’s story, this quote beautifully illustrates the profound healing power of being truly seen and acknowledged by another.
"As you heal yourself and devote yourself more fully to love and interacting in loving connection with others, others rise in love with you unconsciously."
This highlights the ripple effect of personal healing, suggesting that our inner work can inspire and elevate others without deliberate effort.
"We're not fixing ourselves so that there's no issue, but rather more fully teaching ourselves how to love and how to hold a larger capacity for love, for change, for stability."
Chrysta redefines healing as an expansion of love and resilience, rather than a quest for perfection, offering a fresh perspective on personal growth.
"Sometimes surrender involves walking forward on a destined path of doing, but the whole path isn't in the doing. There's an experience here of growth of the heart."
This quote captures the balance between action and inner surrender, emphasizing that true growth lies in the heart’s expansion, not just in external efforts.
"What am I longing for on this plane? What am I longing for on the deepest internal level?"
Chrysta leaves listeners with this introspective question, encouraging deep reflection on one’s purpose and desires at a soul level.