Woodpecker's message of opportunity, Unicorn's guidance, and Bob Marleys love.

Could You Be Loved

Bob Marley

Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved and be loved?

Don't let them fool ya
Or even try to school ya, oh, no
We've got a mind of our own
So go to hell if what you're thinking is not right
Love would never leave us alone
A-yin the darkness there must come out to light

Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved, wo now, and be loved?

(The road of life is rocky and you may stumble too
So while you point your fingers someone else is judging you)
Love your brotherman
(Could you be, could you be, could you be loved?
Could you be, could you be loved?
Could you be, could you be, could you be loved?
Could you be, could you be loved?)1

Don't let them change ya, oh
Or even rearrange ya, oh, no
We've got a life to live
They say, only, only
Only the fittest of the fittest shall survive
Stay alive, eh

Could you be loved and be loved?
Could you be loved, wo now, and be loved?

(You ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry
No matter how you treat him, the man will never be satisfied)
Say something! (could you be, could you be, could you be loved?
Could you be, could you be loved)
Say something say something (could you be, could you be, could you be loved?)
Say something (could you be, could you be loved?)
Say something say something (say something)
Say something say something (could you be loved?) say something
Say something reggae, reggae
Say something rockers, rockers
Say something reggae, reggae
Say something rockers, rockers
Say something (could you be loved?) say something, uh
Say something, come on
Say something (could you be, could you be, could you be loved?)
Say something (could you be, could you be loved?)
Say something (could you be, could you be, could you be loved?)
Say something (could you be, could you be loved?)

Songwriters: Bob Marley

Could You Be Loved lyrics © Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.

Bob Marley: What's the meaning of "Could you be loved and be loved?"

https://www.quora.com/Bob-Marley-Whats-the-meaning-of-Could-you-be-loved-and-be-loved.

Written by Marley in 1979, "Could You Be Loved" starts with a spare yet distinctive guitar riff that repeats under the track's relentless beat and one of the best known opening lines in history: "Don't let them fool ya! Or even try to school ya!"

The interpretation of this opener and the other lyrics depends on what you think the song's about. Some think it's a love song. Others say Marley wrote it as a ballad to the poverty and struggle he witnessed, while still others claim he wrote it on a plane from Brazil in response to how much love he received when he performed there. Some even see it as being about a man reaffirming his faith in the face of personal struggle. Those familiar with Rastafarianism and Marley's lyrical style (in which he often referred to himself as "you" while simultaneously referring to everyone else, a concept that comes from the Rasta belief that all are one) believe Marley uses the song to convey an urgent message to himself and others: at all cost, stay mentally and spirituality fit inside Babylon's system.

The true meaning probably lies somewhere in a melange of all these theories.

My story now.

A short while ago, a woodpecker visited my garden on two separate occaisions. As I am not home often these days, looking after elderly parents in dire situations, is taking me from my new home quite alot. So two times this woodpecker shows up. So that must be double alerting me to an opportunity (see previous post on woodpecker). I think to myself  OPPORTUNITY??? MUST NOT let that slip me by....

Life's been hectic and I've been burned out dealing with elderly parents, hospitals, teenagers, home, paying bills, juggling all manner of life's plate spinning, acrobatics.... turning upside down and inside out.

I finally got a chance to meditate on the latest opportunities that were being flung at me. Sunday morning after a cuppa I went into my zone to ask what I needed to "get" from all this. I asked help a trusted guide. My unicorn called Melchior came to me, I use this guide for deep personal work, as unicorns mean "Purity of heart" and so pure heart, I can ask and that know that anything I receive during this work will have been given in pure heart and so I can recieve with a pure heart. No judgement is needed just trust in what happens.

So I asked to be taken to the place where healing can happen to resolve whatever issues I am carrying but can't quite see. Of course healing continuously brings us back to "old stuff" but at higher levels of understanding as the healing process allows us to spiral "upwards".

I arrived at a place where I was 3 or 4 years old. I was feeling that this was the beginning of my having to create barriers in my heart so as to just protect myself from all the "unloving" going on.

Of course these barriers occur as invisible layers that build up, unconsciously, while the protecting ego serves to shield its ward from UNLOVE. Eventually the invisible layers become concretised into shields around the heart. Walls form around the vulnerabilty of the heart space. Lets nothing in and nothing out.

That's why "human love " is subjective, dressed in tight corsets and so limited to what it can allow "in" or "out"at any one time. When it is freed from the constraints of its corsets it of course goes go free range and organic, it is no longer manufactured in a production line.

So anyway, back to the child of 3 or 4 years old. I get to her at the time the protection barriers are beginning to form. With guidance, I pick her up and hug her. Holding her I can see the purity of heart that small children have before they are plunged into the inky dark of having to bring down coping mechanisms just to reinforce their abilities to withstand the environment that they are learning to be human within.

Immediately I know that all the current upheaval in family pressure and its overwhelming demands on me need to be alleviated, and even the process of healing began a long time ago, it is time now to let the love in.......The recent events stacking up show me the pinnacle of how I am still only loving from behind the barriers. These barriers that began to swell up within me, invisibly, at the time of this visitation with my little girl self.

With guidance I start to heal and allow a meditative process that talks me through. This is quite a long story but I will go straight to how I deal with it........So, Eventually I get to where I decide to introduce a different reality at the point where barriers were beginning to form. I command that instead of being in a reality where people have to create barriers around their hearts, I put the child in a reality where there is only love and so no barriers are necessary, and so she does not have to create them.

We can do this when we start to acknowledge that time and reality are things we use and can manage differently if we want. Provided we do anything with purity of heart. I had to use a unicorn, purity of heart, because I could not trust my own heart, having been so barricaded in for so many years. I know most humans are like this.

Later as the day progressed I could sense a flowering of the love that is available for all and we can sense it, between us all, family members most importantly at this time for me, but actually More importantly love for me.

By exchanging the reality where a child needs those barriers, to one where it is safe to have no barriers, and by bringing the child into that new reality, I managed to change her experience in life, as all experiences were made through those barriers. I can then change my experience.

 The battering ram that brought me to this latest intervention was an emotional stairwell of spending a lot of time, in intense hospital situations, with the person who perhaps was the first to show me the "UNLOVE" and hostile energies that my young child self needed to create barriers against.

You can't see them when they are in your skin and bone and affect everything about you.

To say "If I can create, then I create that this child be in a different  reality, a reality where she had no need to create the barriers that incarcerated herself behind, therefore affecting her ability to Really feel love and be loved"....is to make it real.

Where no such barriers are created, she is free to feel love and be loved.

Later that day, while helping my teenager with Chemistry  homework, I realised the music that they played more often, more loudly and more recently, was Bob Marley.

So it seems that the opportunity woodpecker was alerting me to was this : A HUGE event to spiral up on and into and  create a new reality, that my little self, and therefore me as I am now, was rescued into by changing the old reality. I hope that makes sense.

Everyone seems in a much better mood in this newly created reality, of really feeling love.

Could you feel love, and be loved.

Michaela in a hugging moment, creating Hygge at home with real Love