Celebrating Change

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There is a lot to be said for navigating dark waters. It’s scary. It’s difficult. There never seems to be movement forward. It’s exhausting both physically and mentally. It often feels as if this is the worst thing that could possibly be happening.

Yet, ironically, this is the best time. This is a time of the unknown. This is literally a gift that is signaling immense change and immense growth. This is actually a time to celebrate. This is a time of great healing that will transform your life for the better and create a new opportunity that will welcome joy, happiness, love and light.

This is your time. The is the time of new beginnings. This is a time of storing the murky water to actually allow it to settle more clearly. It is not the time to fight or to struggle. That never works in quick sand nor does it work in times of darkness. What does work is a change of focus and a change of mind.

Softly begin to shift how you see things. Gently allow yourself to celebrate your courage to actually welcome change. Recognize that you are a gentle warrior and your sword is that of love. For no matter what is happening, love will always pave the way with grace, dignity and light. No matter what, if you choose love as your point of view, at the end of your struggle you will be left with the love you invited in. And trust that love always wins. Especially when it comes to the love that is meant for you.

Thirty Days of Thoughts: Day 29

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As I approach the end of this challenge I feel a strong sense of gratitude for embarking on this journey and all that has revealed itself in doing so. In the doing and being of it all I feel a sense of satisfaction and joy in seeing something through in addition to a sense of freedom and openness for an endless flow of creativity. 

In one of my readings yesterday I was struck by the notion of changing the energy of my to do list by reframing it by calling it my “get to do list”. And just like that it holds a new energy and a new light. I get to do so many wonderful things in my day and that reframing sets a tone and a vibration for a positive and engaged practice of doing. 

I get to do this challenge. I get to write. I get to do EBAS. I get to read. I get to research. I get to walk with my dogs. I get to take them to the dog park. I get to eat well. I get to hydrate. I get to care for myself. I get to meditate. I get to practice my presentation. I get to be good and do good. I get to be the light that is the flame of the universe. 

It was a profound rewiring yesterday and just what I needed to add to this practice of writing and the positive perspective just doing the challenge has shifted for me. I encourage you to shift your language and vibration by doing the same. It’s as if the small addition of get transforms the energy to a higher level and is full of gratitude. 

Yesterday was just so lovely because of it. Even though I was doing a movement healing and wellness session followed by a tech rehearsal for my conference, I was in a state of joy because I got to do it all. And isn’t that a delight that we get to do things as opposed to having to do things. 

What if we never asked the question of ourselves and others of “what do you have to do today?” What if we asked one another what do you get to do today? Would that not change the vibration of our relationship with that person? Might it set a different tone for the work they get to do out in the world that day? Might that energy, light and joy be a beacon for others? 

It is really lovely how such a small shift is capable of transforming the direction of energy and thought. Such a small shift to transform the intentions of the day. And in this way we are never without creativity. We are always able to get creative and to live in the flow of creativity. 

I get to post this 29th entry of a 30 day challenge today. I get to celebrate small successes and see myself finishing this journey with a wonderful energy. I get to enjoy the sense of accomplishment and carry that energy with me all day. I get to live a day filled with joyful energy. 

And so I close by wishing you well. Yes, I get to wish you well. What do you get to do today? 

Taking up the Journey of Acceptance

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I write today from a place of admiration and pride about my experience yesterday getting coffee at a Starbucks near my gym. I just finished a wonderful swim and was heading on to my next appointment and desired a little afternoon iced coffee before venturing forward on my to do list. A regular occurrence for most of us during our regular routines and daily experiences.

Today however shifted my perspective. Today I walked up to the counter and quickly realized, after the assumption that there was a young female behind the register, that in fact, it was a transgendered person. Upon that moment my heart just ripped out of my chest with joy simply because of the courage of this person to be standing in their glory at work and in such a public and vulnerable place. Immediately my admiration for this person and my pride in who they are went through the roof.

We exchanged our business; me placing my order and them taking my money and sharing it with the barista. In this moment I began to have admiration for the entire group of people who were working at the time and my heart applaud the fact that we were there in a store with all kinds of people who supported and worked side by side with this person helping to give strength and lift up the courage of a group of people to be proud of all that they all are. At this moment I could not send out loving energy to them all and whisper in from my heart how inspired I was by them all.

Writing this today I am congratulating the transgendered person for their courage and their strength to be who they are in the midst of their everyday life. Being strong enough and proud enough to be who they are. You inspired me with your acceptance of yourself and in turn allow those around you to accept you as a human being full of love and light. Nothing more. Nothing less. You inspired me to have the courage to take up the journey of acceptance for all of those around me at all times.

I honor those colleagues and that store and company for having the courage to raise up the human condition and lift it up to a community during a time of great tension. I applaud this small yet significant success and see it as an example to do the same with all of those around me as well. How might I do this for my students, my friends, my colleagues and even strangers. How might I have the courage to accept more and see everyone as loving energy? How might I weave this powerful and inspiring moment into my everyday life?

And then I wonder, how is it we all can do this? Is it possible for us to see everyone around us with the energy of love and accept them as a fellow and equal human being? Is it possible to accept one another through love? I think so. In this way I see no good or bad, right or wrong or better or worse. We are equal. We are the same. We are love. And if we do this, perhaps we are building the kind of world where all of us will prosper, love and become all that we could and are meant to be.

As I move forward in my day today, may I carry this inspiration with me. May I share it in my actions and in my heart with everyone I encounter. May I honor everyone simply by seeing them as who they are. May I accept all things through love as I take up the challenge and this journey of acceptance. May I be a warrior for the human condition seeing it with my heart and allowing it with love.

Centering to Sing My Eternity

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It is a day of centering. A day of seizing a most appropriate placement of oneself at the heart of time and space. With 182 days ahead of us and 182 days behind, we sit in between what was and what will be.

In this moment it would be wise to reflect on our actions of the past so we might look ahead with a little more clarity for a lot more compassion. This is the time to let go of our mistakes and missed opportunity welcoming all possibility and transformation.

What we decide today will be the energy of thought that will manifest into our reality. What we focus on today will script the story for what is to come in the next 182 days. Will we choose justice and equality? Will we choose love and compassion? Will we choose change and transformation? Better yet, what will I choose?

I choose to be a warrior of my choices choosing to march towards the betterment of humanity. I am deciding today to be a stone dropped into the chaotic waters of our culture in order to allow for the ripples of my actions to clear the immediate energy and injustices around me. This choice will not only effect the coming 182, but for my next 365 and beyond.

I have many choices to make today. There is great power and opportunity on this day. I will pause on many occasions today to make decisions on what will be my future and the future of those I love around me. I will release myself from my past shedding the weight of what was while opening my heart to what will be. Centering my spirit to free the open spaces ahead in order to live better than I did yesterday. Quiet in this moment, I prepare to sing my eternity.

On the Other Side of Summer

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Balance, becoming, beleif, choice, Conscious Living, Courageous Vulnerability, love, Love Between Men, loving

Satisfied to see the very quietest part.

To move. To walk.

Emptiness and tranquility commonplace followed by nothing.

August.

September.

Without distinction or consolation.

Occupied of every body.

The world without temptation.

Seeing in all Directions/Walking Along the Center Line

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Balance, becoming, beleif, Believing, body, body knowledge, change, choice, compassion, Conscious Living, dreams, EBAS, Energy, humanity

We live our lives moving forward. in motion in one direction seeing only what is in front of us and desiring what is so far beyond ourselves. Would it not be more dimensional if we started living in all directions forcing us to anchor ourselves and our energies by the center line of our beings?  Our spines and the very core of our being, and ways of being, would be engaged in a sense of ascending and descending reaching in order to stabilize this new sense of seeing and being.

In doing so, we might find a surge of energy and creativity focusing and reconnecting damaged pathways that have occurred by living a life focused on a future. We might find a sense of internal opening and awakening as we find the balance of our internal and external selves as we allow and acknowledge ourselves as the center of our humanity and the inspiration of our dreams. The radiant body becomes the very thing that grounds our existence. Simply by seeing in all directions, we find our electric selves charged by a new sense of existing and enter a life long journey of walking along the center line.

Seeing One Another in this Place and Finding Humanity in our Space

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allowing, art, Balance, beleif, Believing, bliss, choice, compassion, Conscious Living, courage, Courageous Vulnerability, faith, humanity

Human lives are statements about our galaxies. Full of magical stories, mystical memories and a history rich in ritual; our inexplainable moments at the micro level reflect the wonderful magnificence at the macro level. Logic and reason never able to outshine the simple power of faith.

Humanity is our being in this world. Not our overthinking in it. It is imperative that we connect with our consciousness by not limiting ourselves to the mere hallow experience of information. Mindless motion void of understanding from the heart limits the very voice of our being. We must be careful of giving information more favor or value than conscious feeling.

Our fullest emotional selves integrating imagination, intuition, feeling and sensation is the way in which we embrace who it is we are, our humanity, with courage and humility. It is in this space of allowing ourselves to be fully human and experientially navigating our world with a heightened awareness of being and feeling, that we accept all that is being offered with gratitude and grace.

As we stand in this space of our truest selves, staring out and seeing one another for who we are, finding the authenticity of spirit in one another; we see beyond the facade   and directly into the reflection of ourselves and the magnificence of our universe.

Evolving By Way of Now

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Our histories and actions create the universe that is this moment.

In our biosphere lives a subsystem seamlessly existing with our physical and emotional energies negotiating  balance.

We navigate the present as we simultaneously seek the evolution into the future; acceptance at odds with the desire of what’s to come.

Is it not understandable why so many have difficulty quieting the mind and the heart?

Is it possible to accept this moment and relinquish the fears of tomorrow in order to fulfill our forward mystery?

Perhaps learning to understand our immediacy while allowing ourselves to be, we will find much greater happiness now rather than searching for it tomorrow.

Pressing Back the Boundaries of Ourselves: Day 8

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Believing, challenge, choice, courage, Expanding Spirit, faith, fear, heart path, joy, Risk, Soul to Soul, universal heart, well being

Realizing that courage is directly linked to fear is a huge part of shifting ones being into a beautiful transformation. When we find ourselves lacking the courage to do something, it is more likely than not related to the fact that we are very much afraid of whatever it is that lies outside of our comfort zone or our current abilities. When we fear what we don’t know because we don’t think we are capable of doing something, we are letting fear keep us from perhaps becoming and doing the very things we wish to be and experience.

The best way to make a shift in your life is to take a risk at expanding your knowledge and your comfort zone. This is one of the reasons education is a crucial part of our development and why learning how to fail is as crucial as learning how to succeed. In our culture we place such a significant value on success and winning that we are actually suppressing our greatest success, personal growth and spiritual expansion.

If we continue to allow our culture to be the guiding principles to which we live our lives, we will continue to drop back down to the lowest common denominator. Culturally speaking, we are fearful of rocking the boat, not being accepted, disappointing others by choosing to follow the whispers of our hearts. Although following ones heart path is not easy, it is filled with much greater joy and love than grazing on the couch with the herd.

We need to desperately be out experiencing things that move us, challenge our spirits and test our resolve. This doesn’t mean you have to do things that are beyond your moral or ethical paradigm, but it does mean that you need to look squarely in their face and make the decision about what you want or do not want in your life rather than live your father or mothers lives.

When we are out experiencing life and absorbing all it has to offer, it allows us to see the many beautiful facets of life itself and therefore ourselves. If we see what is possible, experience what can be, we might just realize we have what it takes to do the very things our hearts and souls have been aching to do. We just might realize we could learn the skills and tools necessary to walk the heart path that has been whispering to us from our DNA since our beginning. We just might realize we have the courage and the capacity to not fear joy.

Shifting of the Ages

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As we move from the age of Pisces into the age of Aquarius we must also be mindful of making monumental shifts of our own at the micro level. At the Macro level, there will be a change of consciousness in our spiritual relationship to the greater forces in the universe. At this change we too must shift our consciousness and spiritual connectivity to accept the sacred again both in our own beings as well as in the beings with which we share this great journey and planet with.

It is the time of weaving our words with integrity and whispering truth so it soon becomes something we can believe in again rather than run from. We have ignored the reality of our complete being as we have hidden from the truth in order to activate a false sense of power and worth in the world. Truth has lost over the last few thousands of years to the dominating culture of power, repression and selfishness.

Now is the time, as we are at the shifting of ages, to weave our words while we whisper them into the world.