Coming for the Real You.

I'm hoping to share thoughts, fun and insightful information and aha moments with all to better serve ourselves and the universe.

My background is that of Executive Secretary for the local Electric company (11 years).

Certified Personal Trainer (since 1991) and Fitness Consultant for my own company, Beachin Bodies (6 years) and certified in Reiki and Nutrition with training in Cranial Sacral work, Tai Chi, and Meditation. Certified as a Professional Life Coach (2015); Minister at Universal Life Church (2016);

and, possibly, most important,

my own journey through illness and avenues, roads and roadblocks that I have taken to find the real me. (35 plus years).

The me that I was born as. The me that is the all-knowing. I believe the search is endless and we are here to learn and to love and to share it all.










Monday, April 30, 2012

Addiction

"There has to be a consistency in your determination to improve your life to overcome this unworthy activity."

"I had to begin to find ...  that I am more worthy than self abuse."

                                                                                                     Sidney Poitier

Why is one or another type of addiction so prevalent in so many of our lives today?

May you think more favorably of BEING YOU than any addiction you may know.

In the Confusion

In the confusion of life; the not so perfect situations, the rather have it this way thinking, the back when I could do this scenario, the chaos of having so many different opinions/voices in my head -

There is also great calm; I am good at doing this; I have love from so many, I am safe and fine right where I am at in this moment, I can truly say no or yes to any given situation, I have the power of me.

With feelings of being bombarded with information; comforting and not so comforting, I see others reaching out to one another.  I see a bond between people that is more true, more loving, more giving and more open.  I see people sharing the truth of who and what they are.  I see and know comfort in touch and one another.

So, while our world is changing ever so quickly, mankind has an opportunity to be just that; kind to one another.  It's amazing how empathy, compassion, laughter and sharing of same can just light up my day.

May you light up someone's day today and be open to having encounters of the human kind.

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Bored

I notice that for the first time, I made my previous post about you, the reader, only.  I have no awareness of why or where it came from and I'm going to give it a shot to see what comes up. 

I think I'm bored with my story.  I'm bored saying the same things over and over again.  I'm bored with poor health. 

MMmmmmm.    Sounds true to me.  Feels true to me.

I want more than what is.  I want to be in the world among my peers.  I want to be in the world helping others.

I have a fear of not being good enough; not being able.   What if I obligate myself to something and wake up feeling horrible that day.   Ooooo.   The fear I am creating around this is so not helpful. 

I won't do this anymore.  That future situation hasn't even happened and I'm letting it stop me in my tracks.  No more.

Ok.  My mind knows this; now I just have to tell my body!  Ha.

May your mind and your body be in sync today. 

Where YOUR At

If you feel life is unsettled or chaotic, is this the best time for you to look at the total you and create the person and the life that you really want to dwell in going forward.

What would be fun to to do right now?  What would give you contentment?  Who would you like to connect to just now?

May you know these answers and, more.  May you dare to allow yourself the freedom to LIVE THEM.

Saturday, April 28, 2012

How About

I usually try to be at 100% of my capability.  How about just for today I 'work' at 75%.  I'm liking this idea and it feels less stressful and entertaining even.

Are you with me?

May you allow yourself to work at 75% today, especially if you are always striving for 100%.

Nowadays, many even strive for 125% - where did this number come from?  If 100% is our best - why isn't our best enough?  Mmmmm

Friday, April 27, 2012

Owning Oneself

"No price is too high to pay for the priviledge of owning oneself."  Dwayne Johnson
(from the true story movie of  "Firelight" with Cuba Gooding, Jr.)

May you own who you are; what you believe and how you act.


Life Continues

As I am learning, seeing and thinking in different ways than I ever have, I feel an excitement; an anticipation of what is going to happen next.  I think only good can come out of being and living my true self and, yet, I tread lightly.

It's new territory for me and as exciting as exploring is to me; I also like to err on the side of cautious abandonment.

I don't have individual situations and words for what I'm thinking and feeling these days.  It's more like a general picture of my entire world.  This, too, is new for me.

May you know excitement and cautious abandonment today.

We only live once in this lifetime, might as well try to experience all that we can!

Eye Opener

I believe I gave up some situations, opportunities, and passions in the belief that I was protecting and enabling my family's lives to be better.  I believe I am very aware not to say negative things about others, including my husband, so my daughter makes her own decisions on who and what they are about.  I believe I've protected both from problems, worries and situations that I don't like to deal with, worry about or be in.  Have I not been the real ME in the process?

Has it worked?  Have I made their lives better thinking and acting this way?  Have I provided more opportunities for them while giving up my own?  I don't know if this is the case.   I don't know if this is true for them. I always thought it was.  I'm thinking differently just now.

I do know that I feel I gave up things that I would not have given up if they were not in my life. (I do believe this is true for most, however, the level may be the important thing here.)   I believe I did it for them.  Is this true?  WOWZA.  I'm starting to think I did it for me; because this was my belief on the way things 'should' be in a family. 

I'm thinking this is like giving a gift.  I give a gift because it makes me feel good; it's something I want to do.  I feel happiness or righteous giving to others.  The other person may or may not like it or even want it.  If I love it, it makes me feel happy.  Hopefully, the recipient will love it too; however, I can't ever be 100% unequivocally certain how they feel.   I do know how I feel.  If I'm protecting someone by me always picking up the dog poop or cancelling my appointment; am I protecting them or am I creating an untruth.  And, this does not always feel 'happy'.  In fact, I feel angry at times.   Oh, this is so huge for me.

What if me giving up things I love and want to do only affects me.  What if me giving up and waiting around to see what others want and need is not having the positive affect on the other person like I think it is. What if I'm thinking I'm there for them and it truly doesn't affect their life in the way I think it does.  What if me giving up my self is only affecting me; and negatively at that.  What if me thinking that they need me in this way is arrogant and, worse, hurting them and me. 

OH MY.  What a revolution!  So, by me not being true by holding back or holding in and by me not being true to myself totally does not help others.  Me not living the me that I so desperately want to live is hurting the people that I most want to help!

This comes from me thinking that showing excitement when Daddy comes home to my once little daughter and having her run to him like he is the most special man on Earth; or not going out with a friend in case a family member needs me; not spending $ on something that makes me feel happy so someone else can spend the $ --   what if this is all dishonest and fake. What if this is what keeps me sick.  Oh, I'm on to something here and it doesn't feel UNfoolish at all.  In fact, I'm so baffled and freaked it's crazy.

IS this the part of me that I so desperately am missing?  Is this why my ears are ringing because I'm not listening to my inner voice?  I'm listening to this outer voice that tells me being a mom and wife are about being there for your family WHENEVER they need you.  So I wait.  Is this why I get such agitation from them at times.  My untruth they feel--they do not want any part of it.  WOWZA WOWZA WOW

Something here is making me feel real foolish.  Something here, I so want to resist because what if I have been doing it wrong.  I have been waiting around in case they need me.  I have been saying no to myself so I could be here for them.  I HAVE BEEN DOING THIS TO MYSELF.   Ouch - deep breath.  A TOTAL MIND BOGGLE.

Oh.  Oh.  Oh. 

I feel this in every cell in my body.  This is what I will be doing today.  Allowing this to process and see where I end up.

May you be with just your self, your thoughts.  May you be connected to what makes your soul sing.  May you be open to the possibility that there just might be a better way for you...and your family because of it. 

I totally believe that being who I really am on the inside - out in the world - is best for me, for you and for our world.

I totally believe that being who you really are on the inside - out in the world - is best for you, for me and for our world.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

True Love

"true love is to give what is needed to nurture and create strength"
                                                                                                                  Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Robert M. Place



Snake

Our garter snake is back.  Today I found the cat 'playing' with it.  I picked it up with the end of a broomstick and put it in the pond's stream.  I didn't know what else to do with it.  It was helpless and harmless (or so it seemed).  I know I couldn't kill it.  I can't kill anything that lives.

So, off to Ted Andrews' book, "Animal Speak:  The Spiritual & Magical Power of Creatures Great & Small".

Snake:  "Rebirth, Resurrection, Initiation, and Wisdom"

"...is a symbol of transformation and healing."  "would then enable the individual to transmute all poisons--physical or otherwise.  It activated the energy of kill or cure, ultimately leading to dramatic healings."

"Before it sheds its skin, its eyes begin to cloud over, as if to indicate it is entering into a stage between life and death." 

"Spiritually it can stimulate greater perception of how to apply your insight and intuition.  Your own vision and intuition will become more accurate."  "It may even indicate a need to look more closely into your own heart and soul."

"Snakes are symbols of change and healing.  They have speed and agility, so those who have snakes come into their life will usually find the changes and shifts occur quickly and are soon recognized and defined.  When snake comes into your life you can look for a rebirth into new powers of creativity and wisdom."

There is much more written; but this is what caught my attention the most.  I so enjoy your book Ted Andrews.

Is it time for me to shed my old skin and start anew?  I surely hope so!

May you let go of what you no longer need and allow your own wisdom to create a part of you anew.

If you can...

If you can imagine it; you can become it.

If you can dream it; you can achieve it.
                                                       Anonymous


May your imagination and your dreaming create the 'it' that brings you fulfillment.


I believe that service to others create the most abundant joy possible.  When we achieve things, is it the sharing of such things that bring us joy over all else.... 

If we achieve things and we get no acknowledgement, is it the same...

May you share achievement today and relish in the power of the 'share'.

If I Don't Like....

If I don't like the way I'm feeling; if I wait any amount of time, it changes.

As I awaken this morning, my faith feels strong.  I feel ready to tackle the day with ease and love and truth of who and how I 'tackle' things.  Perhaps, it will be even happier for me to be ready to see what the day brings and excited to 'live' the day.

This morning I realize that my faith in a higher power than myself; my ultimate connection with all things; my faith in God is still strong. My faith that everything is as it needs to be to create the ultimate me that is inside of me is still present. The faith that I will survive and everything will be okay no matter what... well, I believe.

We will see how long this lasts! 

May you know and feel that you are connected to a wonderful, universal power/connection that you can tap into any time and just be you through this 'knowing' and 'feeling'.

                                                                       Hawaii by Helicopter

Is It Me

I'm very unsettled.  Seems like the smallest things feel too big for me to handle.  The largest companies do not do what they say they are going to do and not many things are running smoothly that I am participating in currently.

I have to go for a blood test and it's written on a certain company's letterhead so I need to find this company and not go where I'm comfortable going.  My car was in for an annual check up today and was supposed to be returned by 7:30 p.m.  That's not going to happen.  I'm worried for my indoor and outdoor fish - indoor - the tank seems to be extra dirty and outdoors, the fish are ready and the fresh water is prepared, but the pumps are not on yet for the waterfalls that creates the oxygenation.  If you could have such problems, right?   Is this what you are thinking?

Real problems are not having a friend to lean on; not having something to eat; or being outside in the elements and Mother Nature not being too kind.  These are real problems.

Yet, because my computer keeps freezing; a friend needs help; a family member is sick and we don't know the cause; many are struggling financially; many are unhappy in their jobs or in between jobs; all of this is very serious, very 'worry-worthy' things.

Yet, worrying changes nothing.  Action changes everything.  Letting go feels good too.

I saved a baby mouse from my cat today.  I picked up cat throw up.  My old dog is showing signs of being in discomfort; I already talked about my fish...

I feel like I sound like a 'whiner'.   I am 'whining'.   I don't like it and I can't seem to resist it.  I seem to have an extra amount of flies in my house.  What is going on?

I just feel off-kilter; off-balance.  I feel like I may not feel okay ever again. 

I have a lot of faith in my healers; and trusting what they are telling me to do.  I have a lot of faith in my contractors; and trusting that they will do as they say.  I have a lot of faith in companies offering to do/be/sell me what they say they offer. 

Right now, I am questioning my faith.  ON MANY THINGS....   Ouchola.

I sure hope I wake up tomorrow knowing different than I do in this minute.

This is a dark place to be.  I'm not fond of the dark except when I'm sleeping.

COME ON WORLD - show me the love.  SHOW US ALL THE LOVE as we shower each other with same.

May what you have faith in be faithful to you. 

 Ouch, this was painfully embarrassing that I can't seem to handle the smalles of things just now. 

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Ram Dass

Ram Dass talks about "suffering is suffering".  When we can get to witnessing the suffering through our soul, it makes it less severe; more interesting.

I think this is where I am at; or trying to be.  After so many years of pain filled moments, I am learning that to witness what my physical being experiences can be quite entertaining and enlightening for me. 

Do I want the pain to go away... Yes I do.  In moments, where this is not possible, it's nice to know I can witness my pain instead of fully participating in it at times.

Ram Dass is a Harvard professor; went to experimenting with psychedelic drugs; to India to learn about love; and to being 'stroked' (having a stroke) and learning how to live with the unexpected struggles of same.

He also says that the Baby Boomers just may be surprised how soon their present will be filled with old age and new learnings.

May you live from your soul today. 

How cool it is that most of us have the mind (intellect), the physical (body), the heart (love) and the soul (inner knowing) to explore our life with us at all times. 

Are you using yours wisely?

Have Virus; Will not Travel

I am currently in bed with a virus that has me dizzy; feverish and weak.  Interesting.

It's perhaps a good sign since I have not been this kind of sick in decades.  I honor it and will be glad when it is gone.

My hands are ice and my body hot.  Fire and Ice.  Isn't this a song?

May you honor where you are at today; what is in your life today and how you feel today.

I believe we are right where we need to be.  I also believe that it's perfectly okay to help create the life we want through ease, beauty, dedication and growth.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Where I'm At

I'm hurting some.  My fingers have sores and my body is weak and muscles are aching.   I'm moving SOME each day and I believe this is my saving grace.  I either dance, walk in place and move each muscle group, do house/yard work, or light weight resistance.  I'm not proud that I cannot do more and be totally strong and, yet, where I am is where I need to be today.  I need to believe this to know peace.  My body is very weighed down and many people I love are hurting or suffering or both.

I truly do believe that our world is changing as many of us just functioned and just lived without participating in full betterment and went about our days.  I believe balance will start being easier to achieve and goodness will start springing up and planting itself in and all around us.  I do see signs in it with some of my loved ones.  

Many are changing either jobs, careers, locations and/or just laying down a new game plan for their future.

I am fighting myself and one minute, I'm calm and cool; the next minute I have anger and stress throughout my body and mind.  I am running through the gamut of emotions regularly.  I believe my anger comes out of being afraid.

I am mostly unfamiliar to anger.  I almost never allowed myself to feel it or show it.  Well, yesterday was not this way.  I looked in the mirror and told myself that what I was feeling is real and to feel it and process it and show it in my face even.  That my face is allowed to show emotion because I was noticing how frozen it looked.  I told myself that whatever emotions I am feeling are here within me for a reason; I'm not making the feeling up.  I trust that I know what I need and feel.  I told myself I really think I am lovable and kind and that I am here to help others connect to their love of self.  It's a beautiful and exciting thing to me.

So, wherever you are at - please honor it, own it and process through it.

May you look in the mirror and really see the you that is with you always; as you are today.  May you tell yourself how special and how much you love yourself and whatever else you want yourself to know.  Even if you already know all of this, may you say it aloud as you look in your own eyes.  just a thought.

May you be open to live, share and breathe all that you are.

Saturday, April 21, 2012

Want To

I want to write about my doctors visit yesterday and where I find myself.  I'm in such a confused and 'wordless' state. 

I was told that I'm fighting myself.  I'm holding on to the old me.  I said because without the old me - who am I?  So, I know there is truth to this.  I know this was my goal; to go deep within and find the real me and bring 'me' to the forefront of everything that I am.

I'm scared.  I don't know this person outside of myself.  I've carried her, albeit extremely buried, inside of myself for a large part of my life.  I am now her.   Hip hip hooray! AND, what the heck do I do with my whole bad self!

So, I feel and I don't feel.   I'm numb and I'm aware.  I'm the old and the new.  I'm the brilliant and the dimmed.   I'm crazy and I''m genius.  I'm ready and I'm not.  I'm here and I'm there.  I'm wonderful and I'm horrible.... Well, hopefully, the picture has been drawn!

No wonder I'm confused and not settled. 

So, as I proceed forward; learning, growing and hoping to make it to my ultimate self; is it possible that I am residing in no-mans land?  No.  Because I am a hu'man' and I reside here for now.  Am I in purgatory?  No.  Because I am very much alive. 

Am I between selves?  BINGO   Perhaps, this is where I am.

Perhaps, this is where others are as well for different reasons with different situations.   I'm hoping that I, along with many others, are ready to incorporate their ultimate selves into all our daily nuances and wonders.

I want to.....

Do you?

May you know ease and love as you proceed forward with your bad self!  May you know just what you need to know when you need to know it.

I believe we all have inside of us what we need to be our ultimate self.  Perhaps, looking deep inside of oneself instead of everywhere else but  ... just might be an answer.   Mmmmmmm

If you went deep inside just now without using your intellect to judge, wonder, or fear - what do you need right now?

  Next, how does this 'need' make you feel?  If it's good, you may be onto something.  If it's not so good, you may not really need it.....    Is it even the smallest amount possible? 

Interesting Situation

Yesterday when I got home, I went out back and saw a snake that looked like (what I thought) was a weird looking salamander.  Upon further investigation, I realized it was a poor frog being eaten by a snake.

Ewwww  Gad!!!!!

Luckily, the pond man happened to arrive about this time and he picked up the snake by the tail and the snake released the frog from it's death grip!  The frog hopped away.

I'm thinking the Garter snake will be back; but this time, this frog lived!

Even when all hope feels lost; if our heart is beating, there is always a chance for positive change!!!

May you be open to a positive change today.

     Warning:  Picture not the most pleasant thing to see.

Friday, April 20, 2012

Uncertainty

I'm not sure what I'm going to say.  In truth, I never really do.   I just let my fingers do the talking, so to speak.  (trying for no judgment here)

I'm feeling a lot of unsettledness in this world.   I'm learning and believing that it has to do with all of us adapting to this new world that has been created by us and around us.

We have grown in leaps and bounds and have so very much at our fingertips.  Is it possible that our world is on overload and we are adapting and we are all trying to do our best to bring it back ourselves back in balance.   I believe so. 

I see much beauty in the chaos.  I see the support of each other.   I see the openness of each other.  I see the challenge in each of us to share who we truly are.

The question that comes to me now is - 'why does our own life seem so 'questionable' at times, while we sometimes think everyone else has it together or better or easier or less challenged'. 

In truth, we all have our 'stuff'.  Noone goes unscathed.  Not you; not me.

However, in this 'scathed-ness', each and everyone of us also knows beauty and love and something 'right' also.

May you accept the total you and know you are as you need to be today;.  We are perfection with all our flaws. 

May you create the YOU that you know total comfort with...doesn't hurt to shoot for this, yes?  Ha.

Thursday, April 19, 2012

Light

I pray for God's light that is inside each and everyone of us -

I pray for the Universal wisdom that is in each and everyone of us -

I pray for the deepest inner knowing that is in each and everyone of us -

to shine, inform and lead us all into the beauty of being here on this planet together, now, at this time

Amen.  Alleluia.  Namaste.

May you know your own strength.

Decision

I made the decision today to be light hearted and calm; to focus on what IS healthy with me and to be grateful for people to share love with.

May you make a decision, today, that makes you smile all over.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Hope It's Not For Me

Some living things are meant to do this all day.  I certainly hope I'm not turning into one of them!  Ha.

Getting Over Oneself

I want to get over myself already.  I want to stop this fear that I'm not good enough to get out in the world and work and live.  All I see are my hands and I stop dead on.

I want to start seeing all of me and not just my hands.  So embarrassing and frustrating and not where I want to be.

I want to get over myself already.

What a resistance I can create.  I'm brilliant at this just now.

I want to be brilliant at being vital again.  What to do; what to do; what to do.

May you know and do what you know you need and want to do today.  May you know and do YOU today.

Just Be... Open

I don't have any words to share today.  I want to have words to share; I do not.

I'm going to choose that today is a good day to just be open with my heart, my arms, my mind and my giving and receiving.

I am here with an openness that allows myself to love, embrace, learn and share all that life is.  Scary thought for me a bit.

Yet, I choose to trust the process of life and know that I am safe, I am loved, I am love, and I am connected to all.

May you know you are connected to all and may you choose to be open and trust the process of life.


                              This is the same anenome in closed and open forms; which is prettier to you?
                                                              Mmmmmm, interesting.

Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Cancellation

My doctor appointment was cancelled by the doctors office today.  WOWZA.  Talk about looking forward to getting help and whoooosh, it's gone.

Interesting.

I sit in a bit of discomfort in my fingers; a constant throbbing and, yet, I know I am okay.  I sure wish I didn't have the pain and I know it could be a whole lot worse.

I am safe, I am comfortable, I am loved.  I am lucky.

Would I rather be these things without the pain, you betcha! 

However, I am being with what is and believing that there is a plan that I have not yet been apprised of.

May you be grateful for where you are as the plan for your life keeps unfolding.

Reminded

Today I am reminded that beauty is all around me.  Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass, it's about learning to dance in the rain.

I'm on my way to another doctors appointment in hope to find relief from pain and some agony.  I'm thinking I need to stop the hormones and see what happens.  I believe these hormones, while may helping my fingertips, sometimes; it's creating my brain to not work properly and my memory to diminish and my focus to wander.  I do not take the standard protocol for bio-identical hormones. 

It can't be ME that is making these things happen..... Mmmmmm.

I'm just tired.  Tired of trying so hard.   So then I try so easy.   So then I give up.   So then I hold on.   So then I accept all this or so I think I do.   So what's it going to take.  It's going to take me to accept all of this as is today and that this IS my life and it's a pretty good one. 

There are a few cells in my body that highly disagree.  These few cells are very loud and big....

What is a woman to do....

Ha.

Is it possible for you to believe that as everything is right now today, everything is as it needs to be and no matter what - you will be okay....    Mmmmm

It's not about living the life that is in my head; it's about living the life that is.  What a journey!

Monday, April 16, 2012

Go For It

There's something you've been thinking about doing.  There's some thoughts you've been thinking about saying.  There's some path you've been wanting to go down.  There's a connection you've been wanting to make.

May today be your day to just go for it.

Forgiveness

When trying or wanting to forgive someone; what is it about me that I won't forgive.  When I look at a person I'm having a hard time forgiving; I am noticing when I see this person, it's the me who I see through this person's eyes that hurts me the most.  It's the me I allowed myself to become.

What's up with this.  Yucko.

I can't explain it further.  I'm processing it now myself. 

I was wondering why it was so natural for me to forgive one person when another person (who deserves forgiveness), I was holding on to in restraint (no feeling).

I realize, when I look at this person, I see a 'me' that I'm not very fond of.  

They say forgiveness is for ourself.  Perhaps, this is one reason.

May you forgive someone you've been resisting just because it feels better inside of yourself to do so.

Scary Unsettledness

There is a scary unsettled-ness about me.  I feel like I'm producing too much cortisol and I'm in the constant fight or flight state. 

So many issues and projects are at hand and my ability to focus on them has never been so poor. 

I laid in bed this morning saying 'my body is relaxed'; "my mind is quiet".  I was feeling quite the opposite and I was shooting for this!

So, as I continue on with my day, with beautiful sunshine and hope in my heart and excited to see where I'm going from here; I put the fear and uncertainty on the 'back burner' and I pray for God to do His work through me and I am open to living forward and in the now.

I'm thinking I'm crazier than ever and I'm knowing I have to walk through 'this' - whatever 'this' is.  My body aches and my mind is reeling.

Yes, I had two boys here this week that were highly contagious and very sick with fever.  Yes, there are many amongst me who have lives in upheaval; and yes, my health isn't the best.... however, this is my truth and I am okay; bottom line.  I'm not liking where I'm at too much and I'm trusting it is where I need to be to be the brilliant me once again.   Oh Jeez.

May you accept where you are as you create where you think you want to be.  Mmmmm

Sunday, April 15, 2012

Sometimes Up/Sometimes Down

Humans.  We sure feel it all.  Sometimes we are up; sometimes we are down; sometimes we just are. 

Sometimes, the 'just as I am' - feels boring.  Just being can feel boring because I'm kind of used to either being up or down.  Just 'Being' can feel boring.  Yet, being can also feel glorious and right.

When I just accept where I am in the moment and not fight it and allow it - there is a sense of peace.  I like this peace.

Can I have peace and be up and/or down?  I think it's completely up to me and completely possible.

What I believe is true for me.  What I don't believe is true for me.  I hope to believe and not believe what makes me most content.

I believe I am okay just where I'm at in this very moment.  I don't believe that anything is impossible. 

What are you believing in today?  Does it feel good on you?

Instability

There is an instability in my world.  Many, including me, are struggling to have a stability where safety of jobs, healthcare, companionship and home life are sure things.

Somewhat of a sure thing anyway.  Some are in turmoil.  It is not a fun place to be.  And, yet, I believe out of this turmoil, safety will come.  We need to hang on and be true and share ourselves and be the total person we truly are.

What if each one of us has a special 'gift' and when put together (because in this day and age it's very possible), we are like puzzle pieces that can complete a puzzle; a beautiful puzzle of safety and contentment.

I think it's worth a try.  I'd sure like to feel more content and safe.  I'd like to feel less fear.

May you put your 'gift' out into our world and share the wonder of you with me; with each other.

What if the 'answer' was as simple as just being ourselves; accepting ourselves; allowing ourselves; sharing ourselves right as we are today.



 JUST BE YOU

Saturday, April 14, 2012

Pulling Weeds

I'm outside pulling weeds.  I tried.  I stopped.  I tried.  I stopped.  I succeeded.  I pulled a bunch of weeds; piles of them.

I cleaned out what was not pretty in my flower beds.  Some came out very easy; some resisted.  Some were so tiny I just could not get, especially with my fingers.

I'm concerned that I will have to pay big for doing this; that my fingers will hurt.  And, I'm so happy I did it.  Weeds.  Who'd have thunk it.

I so enjoy getting dirty and uprooting the weeds and the dirt; praying I won't touch a worm or something dead or that something alive doesn't pop out!...especially around the pond area.  One never knows what stays near the pond during the winter months especially when not much action is going on to disrupt their homes

I was safe, however!  Nothing popped out and nothing slithered and nothing was rotten.  Lucky day!  Ha.

May you discard what doesn't look pretty in your life and grow what is beautiful to you.

Trying and Flying

We all go through ups and downs.  I can't say I'm in an 'up' time right now.  I am learning that this is the best time to look inside and change things up.  Or most certainly, change is coming.  I am learning that when in a down time, it's hard to feel and believe that things will feel easy and wondrous again.  Ye of little faith.

Faith, hope and optimism are real good tools to have when down.  Allowing and changing even just one little thing helps the process along. It could be as simple and silly as using your non-dominant hand over your dominant hand to brush your teeth.  I can't seem to get over my low energy, stamina and high pain.  I don't know how to push outward when my pain is so inward and, yet, deep down I believe that pushing outward is exactly what will help with my pain.  I need to open the door and walk through.  That darn door is sealed so tight.  It feels like I need dynamite.

When we are flying, we sometimes can forget to enjoy the ride, enjoy the scenery and enjoy the feeling.  We can get caught up in it and almost forget to participate in the joy and wondrous-ness of it all.  The world is a beautiful place and there are many great opportunities to live in beauty.

Whether you are in a 'trying' time or a 'flying' time, may you allow yourself to participate as much as possible.

May you always bring you with you wherever you go.  Because wherever you go, there you are.....

Where do I come up with this stuff?  I never know what I'm going to say.  May something encourage you to connect to yourself in a true and helpful way.

Friday, April 13, 2012

My Truth

I know I'm ready to move; to change my life; to live the real me out in the real world.  Yet, I feel paralyzed to do so.  I can't seem to get my legs to walk me there.

I suppose I need a concrete plan and my fear of failing or my fear of not being able is prevalent.  I need to get a plan, walk through the fear and let myself fly.

I can't wait til I can see and feel myself doing this.  I'm mad at myself for not being there already and yet, I know I am right where I'm supposed to be.

My heart and soul know this to be true.  My brain and ego are telling me otherwise.

What part(s) of me will win out....   I have to wait and see I suppose.  Darnit. and Oh so exciting.

What part of you are you living in today?

What if we all have a high side and a low side and much in between.  Oh, my low side is starting to really make me mad.....

I want to kick start my high side and my fear of my health getting in the way and I'm sure other things are stopping me also like my own insecurities.

May you let nothing stop you if you know your plan and know with every fiber of your being that it is what you are supposed to be doing.  May you fly high from you own universal connection.

Laying Low

I'm laying low today.  I'm extra tired and wishing I wasn't.  I'm trying to allow my truth to be and if I could write my own story it would be different.

This is where I create stress for myself; fighting what is.  I'm much more open to accepting what is than I ever was; yet, I am not where I totally want to be.

When I can say I'm laying low because I don't have the umph and the drive that I wish that I did, well I'm still not there perhaps, because I'm still fighting what is.

When I can say I'm laying low because it is what is best for me today -- then, perhaps, I am here!

May you be okay where you are today and accept and process it.

I'm thinking that this is what most easily takes us to where we need to be in the most healthiest of ways.  Stop fighting and let it be while embracing and creating yourself through your own inner knowing.

Oh, this is going to allow and make our world rock!   Living through the divine intelligence that is within each and everyone of us. 

Children

It's amazing and interesting what our children can bring into our life.  The complete unknown.  As they live their lives and find their way, alot can be completely foreign to me.  What my wonderful daughter finds exciting and interesting, can be excitedly challenging to me.

Oh my.

May you have some exciting challenges in your life today.  May you be open to learn and participate in the way that your truth is incorporated lovingly.


Thursday, April 12, 2012

Head Spins

When I was little, I used to go on the amusement rides to get my head to spin.  Now, it spins all by itself and I want it to stop! 

I believe many of us are just settling into all the information overload that is upon us and that we are not used to experiencing in such bountiful amounts.

I remember when my parents would go 'tired' over the computer games - ping pong/space invaders/hangman - when they first came out.  The voice answering machine and microwave were resisted by many! 

Now, there's choices of cell phones/carriers/ipads/kindles/blackberrys/face requests/etc.  We can reach people around the world immediately.  We can question and get an answer to anything in a matter of seconds.  We can carry thousands of songs, books and videos with us wherever we go.

This is a lot to 'rest' in.  There is wonderful and amazing opportunities and conveniences.  It all takes us out of ourselves.  It's perfectly wonderful to be here and enjoy it all.  I do believe balancing it all is still needed or most helpful in successful living.

My hope is to be able to go back to amusement rides for the head spin and to have 'head clarity' for all else.

May your 'head' be where you want it to be.  Ha.

                                                           Artist Unknown

As the Sun Rises

As the sun comes up to share it's light, beauty and warmth, I'm reminded that each day is a new day to live the life that makes me feel good and share it with others.

I know what makes me feel good.  Movement, nourishment, interacting positively with people, along with nature and animals.  I know I feel happiest when I live doing what makes me feel like me.

I smile more; I'm friendlier; I'm less stressed.  And, there is no one I have to pay or anything I have to learn to just live me.

Why then can it be so difficult to do?  I believe it's when I look outside of myself instead of following my internal radar.  I know what is best for me.  I know how I feel.  I know what makes me feel better and I know what makes me feel worse.  I know what I want and I know what I don't want.  I believe you do too.

May you live by your internal radar today.  May you check in with it from time to time always. 


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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Stressed?

If you are feeling stressed right now - (I know I am from too many phone calls; the phone is ringing right now), may you take a few deep breaths, relax your shoulders, perhaps put your feet flat on the floor and breathe into your belly.  Ahhh....  Imagine a beautiful color surrounding your body and emanating every cell and releasing any tightness and creating healthy blood flow to your heart and your limbs.  Let your brain relax and be light and airy with great oxygen and nutrition maintaining your optimal-ness.

OK, now you can choose to pick the stress back up or give yourself the love and help that you need while you get on with your moment.

May you release anything that doesn't feel like something you would choose to own.



Too funny, I go into Dictionary.com to look up 'emanating'
and here is this picture waiting for me.  Enjoy!

Diet

Diet

If it is one that we want to die when we do it; then, most likely it is not one for us!

Get it?  Die doing it...  Die it   Diet!

LOL

May you eat what makes the total you feel best today. 

And, whatever you eat; if you choose to eat it - May you enjoy it guilt-free and be sure to taste it!.

Maybe getting up on the different side of bed thing isn't such a good idea!  Ha.

Sick Out of Boredom

What a thought this is.  I'm doubtful many people have this problem today.  It seems many are in the hustle and bustle of their everyday life trying to keep up with the billions of ideas/blogs/videos/programs/sports teams/schoolwork/job load that is right smack in front of them.

However, here I am, not sure what to do today.   I know there are weeds to be pulled; tables to be dusted; things to be purchased and appointments to be had.  However, with my current inability to pull weeds because of my hands and with watching what I spend and my lack of desire to get dental work... my options feel limited.  Ha.

So, I sit wanting to reach out and help others; everyone even  (or as many as possible).  I want to be able to give the gift of one's own ability to create a happy, healthy, fulfilled, peacefully exciting life.  NOW THIS WOULD BE A HOOT.

Of course, it wouldn't be my gift to give.  You already have it inside of you - everything you need.  We all do.  Believing and tapping into said gift is what I wish for you.  I totally believe this.

I believe this because during many years of our lives, we do feel happy and elated even; on the right track, so to speak.  It's just a few years when we lose our way and have to regroup.  These 'few' years come for us to revisit what's important to us and the direction we want to continue on with.

May you embrace all of you.

May you live and allow the gift of YOU to shine today.

Tuesday, April 10, 2012

As the Sun Sets

As the sun sets another day, I'm reminded that tomorrow is another opportunity to have fun, be strong and live full.  I had many visitors this past week and it reminded me of how nice and supportive people can be.  How when we work together, good things always occur; that, for me, struggle is easier with others than alone.

I'm also reminded how hard it is to let others help me.  How I have walls up as to protect myself from depending or needing others too much.  This is a scary place for me.  What if I need them and they are no where to be had?  (old stuff)

I expect others to let me help them and let me into their lives and help fill their needs and I do not give the same opportunity back.

Interesting.  Am I being unfair and acting like a thief by not allowing others the pleasure to do for me.

Interesting concept.

Are you robbing others the pleasure of helping and/or doing for you?

Come Together

I, again, want to thank people for having open minds, open hearts and always willing and open to re-creating their life paths that come and visit me frequently.

The countries currently here with us are:

United States; Russia, Brazil; Thailand, United Kingdom; Australia; Germany; France; Japan and South Korea

May you know that where you are; someone else is there or has been/will be also; to one degree or another.

May we come together to use the universal force of love and inner knowing of oneself to create universal love, empathy and understanding of and with each other.

Ahhhh, feel the beauty.

Darkness

""Symbolically, you're asking?"  He thought for a moment.  "The firefly is an unassuming insect in the daytime.  If you didn't know what it was, you'd think it was nothing special.  But at night, the firefly glows with its own light source.  The darkness brings out its most beautiful gift."  He smiled at Lucy's rapt expression.  "That's an extraordinary talent for an ordinary-looking creature, isn't it?""

Taken from the book by Lisa Kleypas, "Rainshadow Road".

Are you open, perhaps, to a most beautiful gift by embracing darkness when it is upon you?

Movement Experiment

"In your brain, exercise activates key neurotransmitters that elevate your mood, namely serotonin and norepinephrine, the very same chemicals used in most antidepressant medications."

"Try this simple experiment with me.  Get a small drinking glass and fill it with water.  Next, drink or pour out about half the water.  Sit down and look at the glass.  Think for a moment about the old saying: the pessimist sees the glass as half empty, and the optimist sees it as half full.  Then think about yourself, imagining that you are like that glass, and the water represents your level of health.  Are you half full of health?  Or half empty?"

Quotes taken from the book "The Power of Self-Healing:  Unlock Your Natural Healing Potential in 21 Days! by Fabrizio Mancini

May you experiment with your mind and movement today in whatever way feels best for you.

Even if it is just getting up on a different side of the bed; reaching down and touching your toes; reaching up to the sky; and then looking in the mirror and tell yourself how marvelous you are!  I hope it is a hoot for you if you choose to take on this task.  Ha. 


Monday, April 9, 2012

4 of Hearts

"Love and Support Brings Security"......

Just  wrote my last post about us all being here; at this time; on this earth together and I went a picked a playing card and voila --  4 of Hearts.

Love and Support Brings Security

How true

May you practice and receive love and support today.


                                 *http://www3.sympatico.ca/terrir/playing_card_meanings.html

Chaotic Forces

I hear many talking about (and I'm one of them) the inability to focus, stay centered, feel comfort.  Is this our way of changing things up to a better "One World", like Survivor says.

Is it possible that we are all in this together to survive a shift and become one world moving forward in a different, easier, beautiful way.

I sure hope so.  We just need to hold on as we change up our individual lives.  We, perhaps, need to float with the current as we trust the process of life and end up on the shore that creates comfort for ourselves.

I'm hoping this is what many of us are going through and feeling and will succeed in doing.

As we know and have access to more than I ever imagined possible, may we grow and become an united life force here on this planet.

Are we all here at the same time to create this?  Who knows?  Not I.  But, it feels and sounds right to me.

May you go easily with what is instead of fighting against it and perhaps find yourself just where you need and feel good being.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Pain

I'm thinking that pain produces cortisol.  I do know that stress produces cortisol.  I believe that I may be feeling more and more stress because I am not managing my pain well.

I always took however many pain pills necessary to keep on keeping on and live my life and get things done.  I stopped doing this in March of 2009; I still took pills, but a very limited amount.  I've been in bed pretty much ever since. 

I've learned a lot about myself and my beliefs and my struggles.  I thought learning these things would help me to be me and my pain would go away.  It has not. 

I do not like admitting this and I certainly am not enjoying living it.  However, I think it's time to work with the same doctor I have worked with for 30 years and, perhaps, try to manage my pain level better.  Perhaps, I can function somewhat normally if I can get this pain to go away.

I know that pain medicine just masks the symptoms.  I've tried to deal with the symptoms, while abating them while feeling the pain.  I'm just not having enough fun when the pain is present. 

I think I'm going to try the medicine again and see what happens.   I do not know what else to do. 

If pain produces cortisol like I think it must, then the pain I experience could be what is causing me to feel like I'm in the fight or flight stage often.  AND, it can be very, very exhausting to my mind, body, spirit and soul.

I just want it to go away.  I'm tired of fighting.  I'm tired of the pain.  Yikes.

May you deal with your truth; and may you deal easier than I.

Thinking

Special Days

When we celebrate calendar holidays - do we expect them to be a certain way?  Do we think that they should look and be one way (our way)? 

Am I thinking that it should be that we all get dressed as a family and celebrate the day as a family.  That would be nice.   It is not my truth.  So, I could complain and be sad, angry or down.   OR I could be happy for the beautiful people I do have in my life and that they are healthy and accomplishing what they need to accomplish and be grateful for the time we are spending together just as we are.

Am I "should-ing" my day away or am I open and enjoying what my reality is.  I know if I look, I will find great things.

May you not tell yourself that things should be done a different way.  May you make HAPPY what is right in front of you today.

Saturday, April 7, 2012

Night before the Resurrection

It is Saturday evening before Easter Sunday when many believe Jesus was resurrected from death.  He moved a very large, massive boulder to exit the cave-like grave.

May you enjoy honoring and celebrating this miracle if it is your belief and may you allow something within you to resurrect that will bring you joy just like it has in the past.  May you move the boulder if you have to. 

Resurrect (dictionary.com)
1. to raise from the dead; bring to life again.
2. to bring back into use, practice, etc.
 
 
 

Chuckle

I went and picked a playing card, the 4 of Diamonds, immediately after writing about my work area.  The card represents  'home established'.   It gave me a chuckle.

Who uses that word?!

May you have a 'chuckle' today.

Chuckle (dictionary.com)
1. to laugh softly or amusedly, usually with satisfaction
2. to laugh to oneself
 
 

I Sit and Type

Below is a picture of what I have next to me as I sit and type every day.  My 'quack-arooni doctor duck, my #9, my BeU and my Mercedes box.  Above them sits the crystals and pearls.

The duck signifies my husbands nickname 25 years ago because I thought he snorkeled like a duck.  The doctor because I'm sort of a wanna-be and the quack part because I can be.  Ha.  9 is my favorite number; means completion, and is on my BeU emblem because this is my wish for everyone - to reach completion at being one's total self.   Mercedes because I like the name and growing up, I never thought I'd own one and I do now (I didn't when I started this blog).

The crystals represent communication, wisdom, clarity of thought, general healing, memory, meditation, transformation, awakening, pureness of heart, intention, higher consciousness, positive thoughts, harmony and love*.  The pearls symbolize purity, honesty, integrity, concentration, focus, meditation, tranquility and wisdom*.  *Meanings from gemstonegifts.com


I did not know what the crystals and pearls represent until just now, I just knew I wanted to put them here at my workstation because they made me feel good.  Cool.  (or is it Sick nowadays?)



May you bring what you find beautiful into your life because it makes you feel good.

God's Gift

     'Bahamas' from a friends Facebook page.

This is just one of God's many gifts!  I am so grateful for this gift! 

 May you allow yourself to enjoy God's gifts this Easter/Passover weekend. 

Hanging On

My world is spinning around me.  I'm having a hard time focusing.  I feel good things are on the horizon.  I cannot reach them.

I am unsettled and settling.  I'm going to go yet to another doctor; a new perspective.   I know it's the best thing.  I'm tired of reaching out and not having an easy path to walk.

I am inside of me as much as I can be; living my truth on the outside as much as I know how. 

Where does one world collide and become bearable.  I want answers to stop my pain or answers to be happy through with the pain.  I have neither just now.

I am okay.  I want to be better.

I am sad there are no magic or easy answers.  How many more years will I continue to strive to live without pain.  Am I ready to live with pain.

Perhaps, this is my answer.  The answer I'm been dodging and resisting for 30 years.  Live with the pain.  Ugh.  I don't want to and, yet, it may be time to do so.

Hey, in reality, I have been living with the pain.  I just haven't totally accepted doing so.  I now accept to live with the pain just like I have been but without the 'fight' to change it.

How crazy is this.

Is it this simple by just accepting my truth - I have peace.

Mmmmm

May you live what gives you peace within yourself today.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Body/Mind

My body is aching a lot today.  It's been for about three days now.  Just achiness and irritability and frustration at self.

I'm mad at myself for not being and doing better.  Being mad at myself does not feel good.  My guess is that it is more hurtful than helpful even.

The things I tell myself...  I hope to sort through them and keep the ones that make me feel good and DELETE the statements that are hurtful. 

Do you have thoughts that hurt you?  Do you want to change things up in your mind?

I am the only one that can change me - You are the only one that can change you.  We may think we allow others to change us - is this really true?  If I didn't buy into or believe 'things' that I hear or feel outside of myself - would they affect me?
                                                 

Thursday, April 5, 2012

A Body

"A Body in Motion Stays in Motion; A Body at Rest Stays at Rest"   Newton

I hope to get my body in motion.

Are you moving enough for you?

Vulture





     Turkey Vulture in My Backyard




       
    
Spiritual Meaning of VULTURE by "Animal Speak" written by Ted Andrews:

"Keynote:  Purification-Death and Rebirth-New Vision"

"Its medicine would restore harmony that had been broken.  Its feathers were used in rituals for grounding after shapeshifting ceremonies, facilitating the return to the self."

"It can soar for hours without flapping its wings." 

"This ability to use energy powerfully and efficiently is part of what vulture teaches." 

"It is not unusual for those with a vulture totem to have changes in their own digestive system occur."  "Foods that you eat are going to have a more noticeable effect upon your energy system.  Pay attention to how you feel physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually after eating various foods.  You will soon discover which you may need to avoid and which you may need to increase." 

"The sun's rays also serve as a disinfectant for the head.  Each morning it will face the sun with wings outstretched to warm its feathers and to cleanse itself of bacteria that may still remain.  In this fashion the wings actually serve as mini solar collectors."

"To some it shows that vulture medicine has to do with performing rather than talking about performing." 

"...considered a sign of confirmation of a new relationship between the volatile aspects of life and the fixed, the psychic energies and the cosmic forces.  It was a promise that the suffering of the immediate was temporary and necessary for a higher purpose was at work, even if not understood at the time.  It reflects that no matter how difficult the life conditions, rescue is as imminent in your life as was the rescue of Prometheus by Hercules."

There is also a story in this section of the book about the sun being moved further away from the earth and towards the heavens to protect the earth from burning.  It was first moved by a fox, which gave him the black mouth; then the opossum which gave it the hairless tail and, lastly, the vulture volunteered to help and this is why he has a featherless head.  

Who knows, right???  Not I.

May you soar while you recharge your energy level and may any suffering you have teach you quickly what it is there to teach you.