Oddities of Light

Voice Liberation for Women

Mahria Potter Season 1 Episode 2

For the wild women who grew up when mostly white men had the voices - this is your awakening and your practice.

A 4 AM vision about women whose duties are fulfilled but voices are finally emerging. Plus a powerful technique for directing your subconscious mind through vocal prayer.

Key Medicine:

  • When it wasn't safe to speak your truth as a woman - and why that's changing now
  • The loving compassion practice: "I am strong, I am powerful"
  • Using your actual voice to guide your subconscious beyond the thinking mind
  • The technique: "I want my subconscious mind to calm my brain"
  • Early spiritual questioning and finding your authentic voice

"For those of you who are just craving to get this voice out, I call you to be all of it, to free it, to allow it to play."

For women ready to stop whispering and start roaring.

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PART 1

Nourishment for the women that (almost) got left behind. Not. 

I wonder if there is a phenomenon for older women - and why older women? 

Because we grew up in the patriarchal system where mostly white men had the voices. So I am wondering if there are a lot of older women who have a passionate desire to awaken their entire being, their self, their voice, all of it.

I woke up last night in the middle of the night, which is pretty usual for me. 4 a.m. is like the beautiful time, like 4 o'clock or 3:55. I get a lot of ideas - neurodivergent ideas are just flowing all the time, but sometimes I get these beautiful, just clear moments. And I saw all of these women with their duty fulfilled - their motherhood, their Grandmother-hood, their jobs, their purpose of being a good wife, the caretaker, all of those things, fulfilled. 

And yet, how often did they fully get their voice heard? 

Or is now their voice awakening and there's so much more they want to say, so much more has been dismissed?

And this is not something just for older women. However, I mean, it depends on the culture, but we are so past time to really allow our voices to be freed up. And I look around this globe and I see all these incredible movements which have helped - for people who have been subjugated, colonized, owned, victimized, oppressed, to like a flower blooming - their voices erupting, becoming visible, becoming clear for more to see and more to find and feel. 

And yet still, there will always be backlash.

I mean, even think of Greta Thunberg, this amazing young teenager who saw clearly what we were doing to the planet. And her empowerment, her voice, her strength, her love of her family— so her voice was always clear and strong and they supported her. So that is really how all of us could, should, whatever - should have that freedom to feel safe. 

So many of us didn't have the freedom to feel safe with our way of thinking and being and living in the world.

So many of us, or at least for me had different ways of seeing and all of that. I don't want to talk about it, but hey, here we go. All of it, I could go down so many rabbit holes with it. 

Well, just one - being in a culture that just worshipped monogamy - like, that was so confusing to me my whole life. I was like, why is everyone saying, "Oh, when I get married," like wearing white, I didn't get it. My brain never, no comprehension. What is that about? I feel I definitely came from some other place and some other realm of communicating and freely exchanging ideas that didn't necessarily have to be spoken, expressed, held at the floor.

You know, when someone stands up and they hold the floor, they're just bombastically going to tell everybody what to do. Like, when I was studying to become a teacher, which was quite the shit show - I took almost 10 years out to try to be normal, and thinking that that would be a good platform to work with children, because I could be steadily paid. And wow, rabbit hole of dysfunctional foundational systems on our planet. Oh my, which gave me a great mirror for all the other dysfunctional systems that are crumbling, beyond crumbling. They should not be even allowed to exist anymore.

But holding the floor - so we call it directional teaching, like "this is, I'm going to tell you what to think," directional teaching. It's the oldest typical way, but that's really what works for so many situations. So directional teaching, to me, it's more like directorial or I'm a dictator, you know. 

So many of us grew up in that kind of culture.

So just saying - freeing our voice, finding the ways and the places that we can speak our truth. So something I didn't realize, as someone who was always heard in the silence and felt safe in the silence with my creatures and with the visions that I had, with the creatures that I saw and that I interacted with in space, is that a lot of people don't feel safe speaking aloud by themselves. 

And this is something I didn't even realize or even understand this is possible.

So if that is you, I implore you to begin to speak your truth by yourself, alone, in your prayer, in your meditation. I still can't believe that's true.

There are people who don't like speaking aloud to themselves. 

So use your mirror. Say beautiful things. "I am. I am strong. I am that" - beautiful "tat tvam asi," I am that I am, the Sanskrit term "tat tvam asi." That which is in the Bible - "I am the light, the truth, the way" -we- that's speaking of us. "I am the light, the truth, and the way." 

We all are capable of speaking that truth, of being connected to that source. I am.

So if you haven't tried speaking to yourself with a loving, compassionate voice, please do. Especially in your prayers. And if you do speak in your prayers, it's really nice to tell your subconscious mind who's boss!

So we all have this mind, right, this chatterbox that tends to want to say things to us, tell us what to do, voices that say things like "quiet," right? We all know about that. If we're an adult person, we all know that listening to the weaker inner voices who are there to support us and keep us safe. So they have an amazing job to do. They want us to be safe.

So we all have had many kinds of trauma, all of us. Even a minute of trauma is trauma. We know what that means. We feel shut down, we feel small, we shrink. So those of us who had a lot of trauma clearly understand what it means to flee or to fawn - people please - "oh my gosh, I don't want anyone to think that I don't know what I'm doing. I'm just gonna fawn," which leads to imposter syndrome, all of those wonderful things that go there. Freeze. So when your whole body is being attacked by something you remember, you freeze. Fawn and flight and fight - I think I got them all. But we know what that all means.

So all of us have all those little bits of trauma. But finding a way to feel free to speak your voice, to claim, "I am strong, I am powerful. I am filled with trying and learning and making so many mistakes." Right? 

So that's pretty much all I wanted to share this minute. It was just finding the freedom of the voice, how vital it is to begin to love it to a point of knowing that I am an expansive being. My purpose here is very important. Of course, not everyone's gonna want to be awake, but for those of you who are just craving to get this voice out, 

I call you to be all of it, to free it, to allow it to play. 

And if you haven't had play, then get some play on, get some kid play going on.

We're so lucky to be breathing, right?

Everything breathes, so we're so lucky to be breathing on this planet. Bye.

 PART 2

Directing Your Subconscious Mind Through Prayer

I forgot fight, some of us grew up in violent situations. What I was really getting to was how in our prayer, that our vocal voice can support us to guide our subconscious voice.

So this thinking mind is helpful for many factual things, right? For how we do our work, how we do this, how we learn, things like that. But, it is not the best tool to connect and commune with higher self, for our spiritual divine source connection through all else, through everything else. 

So the more that this planet and people are awakening, the more it's important for us to kind of get it together, to really sort of escalate, get on the escalator, move quicker, get traction. Let's get going. I mean, not in a frantic way, not in crisis management way, but in a way that we feel like we are getting somewhere in our prayer, in our meditation.

So lately, it has been really effective for not only me, but for others to be directive. As I was speaking before about directive teaching and how unhelpful that can be in a classroom situation, but it can be helpful in a situation when you're speaking to your subconscious mind. Our conscious awareness, our conscious mind, our conscious connection, that higher self that is connected to the divine light, the divine energy, to source energy - we are divinely connected.

For so many years studying and being primarily Hindu - ‘you are not this body, you are spirit soul’. And I fought that for a long time because I do feel we are embodied - in all of it. All of it vibrates. We are resonating in all of it, and yet, we are just light. We are just that energetic frequency. We are just here, and we will go somewhere else. 

It's like the energy of all of those people we've loved. It's within us, it's all there. It's this energetic vibration, to emotional - like a container. This is an amazing container that resonates and vibrates. But I'm going down a rabbit hole again. I came here to talk about directing your subconscious mind.

Technique

So when you're in this meditative state, when you come and you sit down and you do your prayer, really checking in with your body, right? How does your body feel? How does it feel everywhere? How does your head, your throat, your everything? And feel where there is some tension? For me, often, it's in my brain because I have like what, six Aquarius planets? I'm very much air and I love to think and go down thought rabbit holes, like, again and again, my whole life. It just is joyous. I love it. It's fun. It's easy. It's the creative stream. And I tap in.

But there's a lot of times where I want deep grounded clarity. I don't want any more thoughts running through my brain.

So I ask for help. I ask for help. All the beings around me, my higher self. I ask very clearly: I want my subconscious mind to calm my brain, my thought patterns, the words in my head. Calm it down, bring that energy down to the earth, down and ground me right now into this Mother Earth. Allow me to sit with presence and with grounded peace & clarity. And I just state that a few times in different ways. I just ask clearly.

And this could be something that - this is something that I've been learning lately about star seeds, light workers, that kind of thing. But I know personally, when I am in the flow of receiving this transmission, this beautiful energy, within an environment where people are spiritually vibrating high, and if I'm asked to share something, it's one of the easiest ways for me to just move right out of the way, and I just allow.

So I've been thinking about practicing that a lot lately, just asking, just clearly asking. It's one of those things I think when you think about people who pray or be connected to those Christian churches - I don't know what they ask. They're Christians,’Christos’ they believe in this... I don't really understand that, or know why that is such a thing about the blood and the Christ and the resurrection and all that. That also is one of those weird things that when you see things on this planet, you're like, "I don't... that's got nothing to do with me." You're like, "No, I don't know."

And I remember - oh, I'm going to rabbit hole - when I was really little, I asked the priest, "What was sin?" Like, again and again, I'm like, "What the heck is sin?" And I think he was so flabbergasted by my question. He just didn't know what to say, or he thought, "Well, I'll leave that to the educators," 'cause no matter how many times I asked him and tried to get him to open up, it was like trying to pry open an oyster shell that wasn't ready to pop. And I remember just, God, I must have been like six or something, really, really little, because I remember it was in the old church that we lived by a long time ago, in Washington, D.C. And yeah, I think I just was... anyway.

Subconscious mind, unconscious mind - that part of you is a very big part of us, and you can guide it to help you. You can guide it to help you at night. Subconscious mind, speak to it and guide it in so many ways, and it's a really loving presence, and it's really good. So I ask you to give it a try. Bye.