Family

My lovely sister and beautiful niece will be heading out in about one hour.  I am sad to see them go.  I am thrilled that they were here.  We had a blast.  We did, we saw, we conquered.  LOL

I had a fabulous weekend.  We ate at wonderful restaurants with great ambiance, great presentation, and delicious delightfully flavored happy food! 

My birthday dinner was beyond wonderful outside on a deck with boats on the water, music in the air, and friends surrounding me.  I am lucky that not only are my sister and niece my family; they, too, are also my friends.   I had cake brought for me and lovely, happy balloons.   One large balloon decided it did not want to stay at our party and broke off from its string and flew up into the air.   I imagined it was myself opening up to share myself with our world.   'Self arising!'   lol

We laughed, we danced, we shared, we loved.  Not one thing could have been added or changed as it played out.  I've been blessed....again.

So, as my 'girls' gather their belongings to get ready to head out, my heart feels the loss already.   My heart also feels the fullness of what is.

We, humans, have many emotions, feelings, thoughts and beliefs.  It's amazing how many we can feel at one time. 

It is more amazing when I pick the ones that feel best on and with me.

May you choose what feels best within and without of yourself.   May you let the flow of goodness, happiness and light invade all of you as often as possible.

OH My

A big night is coming up for this woman!   lol   Birthday celebration with beautiful women!

I'm honored and excited.  I'm also praying my energy level is decent.  I am choosing to go into this night thinking 'go big or go home'   Ha.

I am also choosing to go into this night with my brain open to receive.  No need to push outward.  Receive inward from others.  These are my thoughts.

We will see what happens.   I KNOW it will be great.

May you know your goal in this moment and know things will be great in your next [moment]!

LOL

So, I am here waiting for midnight because the flight of my 'birthday present' lands at 12:13 a.m.   I'm very excited and very happy to be having such two wonderful women come to 'play' for the weekend.

I realize that I have not been out at midnight (what feels like and mostly is) in a very long time unless it was to take the dogs out!  Yikes.

I can do this without fear.   OH YEAH!

The weather has been glorious for me.   It is currently 79 deg F at 9:42 p.m.   It stays within a 10 degree range and low humidity and hot sun.  Perfect for me.  

How grateful I am.

I'm not sure that I will be doing jumping jacks at midnight, but I will be out and about and very happy.

So, wherever you find yourself at midnight - may you be connected to your happy from within.  May you share it with your/our world and may you meld it into as many moments moving forward as possible.

Laughter releases wonderful chemicals and it actually contracts the abdominal muscles.  Laugh away.   It's good for you and it is contagious to most.

Await

I await for my weekend of surprises.  My 'guests' come at 11 p.m. tonight.  I will pick them up at the airport and the party begins!   I've already received tulips and big delicious chocolate covered strawberries.  I am open to receive.  I am blessed and I am learning that on the premise of how good it feels for me to give; if I do not receive, I take the pleasure of giving away from others.  Mmmm   If I have it or if I receive it - does this mean I'm supposed to have it and I'm supposed to receive it and that it is OKAY.....  If I think something, then it must be mine to think.... yes? 

Learning as I go....

I am told to be open to whatever is planned and to please go with it this weekend.  I am open to whatever is planned and I am open to allowing others to control my schedule.

I am excited.  I'm a bit nervous AND mostly excited.

I am ready to feel alive to the fullest amount that I possibly can.  I am ready to live without fear and I am ready to share myself (all of me) with others. 

I can be whatever I am with kindness and an open heart.  I am enough just as I am.  You are enough just as you are.

Sure, I can always do different.  If I show up with an open heart and mind, I can navigate, share, laugh and live life.  I embrace life.

May you embrace yourself enough to know that you will and can handle any situation that comes your way.

Washington

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."  George Washington

There is much conflict in our world just now.  There is much unsettled; there is much upheaval; there is much pain and tragedy.  (There is much happiness, laughter, love and beauty as well.) 

We are so aware of many more situations of hurt than we have ever been because of the connection we have through the internet.  We can be and mostly are, all connected.

I can know your pain more and you can know mine.  While this is overwhelming at best, it is also very exciting because without knowing same, no conclusion or answer could be had so easily perhaps. While many more of us are aware, I believe that this grand awareness can draw grand hope, answers, enlightenment and change. 

We are no longer sitting on the sidelines feeling like that situation is theirs; this situation is ours.  We can more easily see that each situation touches us more deeply and closely because we are more deeply and closely connected.

So, while I believe this 'upheaval' is hard, unsettling, unknown and, at times, very confusing....  it can also be the most opportune time we ever had to CHANGE IT to what we can more easily live IN and WITH.

May you want to create better situations for yourself and share these with your loved ones and our world. 

I believe there is enough of everything good to go around for all of us.  We all have to believe this to create it.  So, if there are some things that you just aren't feeling right now; perhaps, you can allow yourself to feel the good things that you know are here for you.  May I offer to start here AND keep right on going with an open heart, the truth of who you are and the desire to learn and grow; and to know contentment and happiness.

Happy Birthday 2

I just found out that YES, my fabulous sister and my beautiful niece will be here for the weekend!!!!   I AM SO HAPPY.   I AM SO LUCKY.  I AM SO BLESSED.   I look so forward to seeing them and being with them.  I also found out that my wonderful husband is the one behind it all and set it all up!

None of them are good liars; I am grateful for this!   LOL

So, now that I know --- I can be in this wonderful moment and coming weekend with open heart and great love and gratefulness that I have such wonderful people in my life.   I AM SO THANKFUL.

Apparently, they are not so happy; they are all taken aback.  I am sorry for this.   I am so happy that I can breathe better.  

There was great falseness around them all this week.   I knew something was OFF.   This being in tuned stuff may not always be a blessing.   As I stated previously in one of my posts, I have 'arrived' and I'm not sure what to do with this totally connected self and it is not exactly what I thought it would be.   (perhaps this is another post)

Careful what you wish for -- most of us have heard this.   I do sit in my truth and it feels the safest and best me that I can offer up.

I apologize for ruining their element of surprise.   AND, they rock to do this for me!

I sit in awe and ease.

May you find the truth that is most helpful to you today and take it and create the best you that you can offer up.

There is a lesson in everything.... if one wants it....  Yikes.

Happy Birthday

It is my birthday weekend this week.  I'll be 53 years old.  I won't be with my husband and daughter and I have many wonderful friends that are willing to spend this day with me.

My wonderful niece is flying down.  There is something going on with her mom  - my sister.  My sister is a horrible liar and I've heard 'whispers' from her that leads me to believe that she may be wanting to surprise me coming along with my niece.   I would love if she came.  I'm having a hard time not knowing.  I'm feeling OFF not being able to envision what my weekend will look like.  It is my belief that it will be different if my beautiful niece comes alone than if my fabulous sister comes also.

I'm walking my dogs tonight in tears because Little Bear is wanting to go in each and every bush making the leash stick at least 8 times in between tiny, curved branches.  She is chasing the geckos and this is her new found game that puts me on edge.  Yikes.

In the past (long ago), I have purchased and worn new outfits for my birthday.  This time around I'm uncomfortable with being center of attention and I don't really want to make it a big day.... Although, of course, IT IS!!   Ha. 

My brain is playing silly games on me.  I think this is the me that is torn between what was, what is and where I'm wanting to be.

I feel that I've usually just gone with the flow and knew that I could trust myself to be okay with whatever comes my way.   I'm not feeling this now or in the past few years.  I'm scared that I will not be able to handle or have enough energy for whatever comes my way.  This is not a fun place I am finding myself. 

And, I will embrace and walk onward and through.   So, anyhoo, I just sent a text to my sister asking her for no surprises please.... asking her if she is definitely not coming then.....   I await her answer.

I'm sad to spoil their fun and I'm so unsettled in my own head and life right now that all little things seem huge to me.

Like I mentioned earlier - even walking the dogs is getting to me because my head is comparing how easily it was to go outback in my lovely backyard and just throw the toys whenever I wanted to instead of putting leashes on and having to deal with 'outside' issues. (can you imagine?!? oh my)   Of course, I didn't do this in the winter.  There it's seasonal; here it is not. 

So, while I've gotten good at 'knowing' what is accurate, the 'feeling' part of me still holds on and is slower to process and accept the truth of what is.

This is how I'm 'knowing' and 'feeling' just now anyway.   Oh the burdens of having my human brain.  lol

"In the end, only three things matter:  how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you."  Buddha

I am not feeling very graceful in this moment.

May you know gracefulness in allowing yourself to let go of the old and receive, perhaps completely, anew.

Good things lie ahead.  Of this, I am certain.  Actually, good things are here right now today.  It's getting my head (thoughts) positive to see the greatness of each present moment.   Like Eckhart Tolle has reminded us - "Be Here Now".

Gandhi

"Whatever you do in life will be insignificant but it's very important you do it."  Gandhi   Mmmmm I like this.

I believe that what we do has an impact on someone and the impact on that person has another impact on another and so on and so on.

Come from your place of light and love --  Impact the world positively.   It may seem unimportant at times, and if we all come from this place as much as possible --  oh the greatness that will shine on and forth!  Just thinking about it feels good to me.

I believe this to be very important in creating the world for our children, grandchildren, great grandchildren, etc.

So, while the great Gandhi - and I say this with respect - says that what we do will be insignificant --  if it affects a loved one or another, how can that be so?

May you be aware of the impact you have on others.  May you choose the high road of your loving truth wherever/whenever possible.

Crazier Things

I know crazy things happen every day.  However, today, as I was driving to an appointment listening to the NY Doctor station on Sirius Radio, I decided to change the channel... And the radio, the dial, nor the arrow on the steering wheel allowed me to do so.  It was frozen on this station.   This never happened before.  I turned the radio off and on thinking this might free the station; to no avail.

I continued listening and they started talking about people born without hands or extremities - how it was still possible to feel and almost embrace the hand that wasn't there.  There's this thing called proprioception or body awareness where we know how much space we take up and how we move and manage our body throughout the day.  It talked about still having awareness down to the ends of the fingers that aren't there and to mentally take a picture and feel as if they were.  

I'm not sure why they were saying that this is even better than replacing the 'stub' with a hook-like hand.  But, I thought 'what the heck', I'll try it.  I'll feel my fingertips past where they are.  I'll feel and even envision having nice healthy nails that I can paint a pretty color.  I'll envision grabbing a pen, drinking glass, or steering wheel easily with my whole and easily flexible fingers.

It was very interesting that I was unable to change the radio station.   I listened until I got to my destination, fascinated.

When I got back in my car, after my appointment, the station was easily changed to the 70s, which is what I listen to when not listening to the Doctor station much of the time.

Interesting?  Goofy?  Strange?   I think yes!

May you go with the flow and 'listen' with everything you are.  You may just hear something very important to you.  Ha.  Never know.

Bit

I seem to have gotten a spider/bug bite.   It's interesting to me how I just recently wrote that I think all living things deserve to live their life out fully and that I usually take any bug that is in my home and place them outside to carry on.

I have a very swollen area where there was a bump with white underneath it; it looked like a big round, almost flat pimple. (ewww)   The area around it is very red and itchy.  It is uncomfortable and rubs against my clothes.  It seems to hold great heat.

I looked up "bites" and this is what the Louise Hay's book "You Can Heal Your Life" says about bites.

"Probable Cause:  Fear.  Open to every slight."

"New Thought Pattern:  I forgive myself, and I love myself now and forevermore."

May you forgive yourself and love yourself now and forevermore.

Children

I've always thought, since having a child, that 'children are our best teachers'...

 I read this online in an article today from the Huffington Post: 

 "An ancient Chinese saying says every child is actually a little Buddha that helps their parents mature and grow up."  Lu Jun

I believe.

May you be open to learning from your/the children.

Family Rules

                                       A girlfriend has this hanging in her house.

May you pick at least two, if not all, to live by.

Happy Earth Day

Today is Earth Day.   We all have at least one thing in common...  We are all living on Earth, right now, together!

May you notice 'under your feet' today and be thankful/grateful that there is always something under them to support you as you walk on.

May you find one gracious thing to do wherever your feet are finding themselves today on this grand Earth! 

How nice to think that many will do just that.  I feel the love already!  May it come right back at you.

 

The World

While thinking of where to go and what to do next with my life, I saw the tarot cards sitting in front of me under the glass table and I thought 'why not'.  

So I spread them out face down and placed my hand above them and moved my hand until I felt heat.  I picked three cards.  These are the three I picked.  I have picked at least one of these cards before.  However, the World card gave me a giggle.  I am here to save the World after all.......

Eight of Vessels
"Tarot wisdom:  Your work is a creative endeavor, not mere labour.  It is engrossing and emotionally satisfying.  By immersing yourself in satisfying work, you become centred, and in turn find your centre, which is the Anima Mundi."

Queen of Coins
"Tarot wisdom:  This card is the personification of health, wealth and wellbeing - a very fortunate state. It can represent our past or present condition, or a goal for the future, depending on its position in the reading.

The World
"Tarot Wisdom:  The World is the achievement and culmination of our goals.  On the highest level it is the merging of our individual personality with the Anima Mundi, the soul of the world.  The Anima Mundi strains the ability of words to describe it, and it can seem paradoxical.  To the Neoplatonic philosopher it is the highest form of the divine circumference of being.  It is outside space and time, and yet here now.  It is composed of neither matter nor energy, but is the mother of both, continually creating the universe.  It is the intelligent, compassionate guide that is evident in the evolution of life.  It is both masculine and feminine.  Though dual-sexed, we call it 'she'.
The Anima Mundi has been with us guiding us throughout the journey; we could not be alive unless this was so.  She was with us when we were the Fool in the beginning.  We are still that same fool now; the only difference is that we have dropped our blindfold and have become conscious of her for the first time.  Now we are aware of the infinite creative potential that was here all the time.  This knowledge is bliss."

From the book "The Alchemical Tarot" by Rosemary Ellen Guiley and Robert M. Place

I believe we need to save ourselves before we can save anyone else.  If I am not happy, I am miserable in the world.   If I am happy, not a lot in our world bothers me. 

May you be happy in our world.

                        Another picture from Facebook, same photographer as the Shells (beautiful work)

Home

I'm here at my current 'home' feeling stuck between what I knew and who I was to what I know and who I am and wondering where do I go from here.  I have 'traveled' much these past few years and I have learned, experienced, and recreated many of my own thoughts.  I feel I have achieved connecting to who I am on the inside and living this on the outside.  I feel connected to myself on a deeper level than I've ever known. 

While I feel happy, content and like I've achieved my ultimate goal, I thought achieving this would feel different than it does.  While I'm enjoying this new connection with myself, I'm also feeling irritable at not using the new me to live fuller and touching others' lives and sharing happiness and laughter.

I have seen many people close to me become more aware of their own lives and their own choices and I've seen beautiful moments and enlightened connections they have with others and with me.  It's extremely brilliant and exciting and I'm grateful to witness and experience these moments and to also hear about some of them.  Sometimes they give me goosebumps; these connections that are so real and create such fulfillment in the relationship.  This is HUGE and creates much happiness for me.

I've had a very lazy day today and I find myself feeling sorry for myself being alone (which is what I've created) and bored.  

I'm knowing that feeling bored is good because it will create me to do things differently so I will not be bored in the future.   And, right in this moment, being bored doesn't feel too good to me!

I'm finding it harder to write with where I am because it is new to me; it is uncomfortable even.  I think the discomfort comes from lack of understanding and some uncertainty because I am so 'new' to myself.  Eh gad.

So, in reality, I'm feeling it all.  I'm feeling the freshness and the staleness.  I'm feeling contentment and discontentment.  I'm feeling excited and scared.  I'm feeling alone and connected.  This being human and experiencing much of what a human can experience is quite the challenge for me. 

So, I guess, I'm kind of in a limbo.  I'm caught between the person I was and what do I do with this person that I have evolved into.

We are all evolving whether we do it consciously or not.  We all feel many human experiences and feelings.  Sometimes we run or numb ourselves from these feelings.  Sometimes we ignore them.  Sometimes we let them go through us.

It is a choice that we can choose to make consciously.  I have let many of my stuck emotions go through me these past several years and I am, for lack of better words, 'clean as I can be for today' and ready to imprint consciously and intelligently more life experiences on this being that is me as I travel the path that I'm here to travel.

I did not think I could get any nuttier!  I was wrong!  Ha.

May you live consciously and create your day to leave the people and yourself whose paths have crossed in a happier place than before you made contact. 
 Yeah, good luck with that...  and it is possible if you are open to it.

Beautiful Photo taken from Facebook page 

Loud and Clear

If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you.  If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you.
   Jesus Christ, in the Gospel of Thomas

I believe many of us are being forced into doing just this.   I know I am one of them.  I have seen much beauty come from this truth between people recently.
 
May you choose to be forthcoming to the best of your ability always.  May you see beauty in it each time you have the courage to speak your truth with kindness. 

                                    The sky outside my door the other night.

Taken from "Torn" 4/16/13

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." – William Arthur Ward

Family Room

Formal DR

Formal LR

Informal DR/Fish Tank

Yoga Room

Sunbed Room

Kitchen

Master Bath

Automatic Blinds Up

Gym

Aerobic Room

Massage Room/

                                                                                Shooting Star on Ceiling

Theatre

Sauna

I needed to share what my home was like before it was 'staged' by the realtors with some of my own pictures.  I'm thankful that the sales video had expired that prompted me to post these pictures.  I hope that my warm heart for this house transcends through these pictures to you.

May you create your own world of beauty; whatever is beautiful to you.

 

Inside of You

"Your head sits well on your shoulders and your heart is in the right place; and when the time comes, you'll know what to do."
Tom Selleck's character, Commissioner Reagan,  on Blue Bloods TV Show

May you trust that when you are supposed to know, you will know.

Why

I had 'Rocky Road' ice cream with added walnuts and bananas in it and I didn't ask Why?.  LOL

I thoroughly enjoyed it.   I try to eat by questioning if I eat something, will I feel better or worse after eating it. 

If I can say better and thoroughly enjoy what I eat, I believe my body digests it differently than if I eat it with guilt instead of pleasure.  If I know that I'll feel worse after I eat it, my hope is that I will choose not to eat it at that particular time.  Just saying....

Try it out if this rings true with you.  

Happy joyful eating. 

May you eat with pleasure and never guilt. 

Out

I did go out yesterday (ooh) for fun and it was a beautiful sunny, hot day.  I opened the moon roof and windows and went on down the street with my music blaring and the wind blowing.  YES, it was enjoyable.  Yes, I want to do more.  Yes, I ended up sitting at a movie theatre watching the latest Tyler Perry movie, "Temptation".  A very interesting movie - thought provoking and surprising (just like our current world).  He does good work.  I love his work.  Something about him, I strongly connect to in my soul.  I am grateful for his work.

Anyhoo, I drove a bit more after the movie and, bammo, I hit a turtle in it's shell on the highway.  Ugh.  My car must've been too low to go across him and I heard his shell bang.  I felt terrible for this poor harmless turtle.  I told him in my mind that I was sorry and I dislike very much that it happened.  What's a car driver to do when in fast moving traffic....Yuk

I believe any almost any living thing is beautiful and has a right to its place in life.  Call me weird or a 'wackadoodle', I cannot step on a spider or kill a stink bug.   I have to gather them and put them outside to carry on.

We all have our 'stuff', don't we!  Mmmmm

So, today, here I am.  Alone and able to do whatever I choose.  I am in control and no one is around to judge me, want me, change me, compromise with me or need me.  It's quite a place I find myself.  I am grateful for this temporary aloneness.  If I cannot live me now --  I want to say I'm screwed.  However,  I will say, I'm in trouble if I cannot find things to do and enjoy doing them.  

I believe I need this time to learn how to take care of me better and more fully.  I have a list in mind such as cranial sacral massage, pedicure, hair, girlfriends, exploring and adventures.  I am excited and I will also be out of my box for a bit.  I've been inwardly searching for years now and I'm ready to take this ME that I am and bring me out into our world once again.  I have an idea of how it will look.  I have a great idea that it will feel wonderful. 

I'm reminded again that I feel like a 52 year old new born peeking my head out into our world and wanting to go out and dance in the rain; or the sunshine; or the high winds.   I just want to dance!  I hope I have the energy.  (oh, my human brain)

I was at a massage last week and the woman mentioned to, perhaps, "stop asking why".  Just go through my day and stop asking why.  I always thought that if I knew the why I could 'fix' things.  What if nothing needs to be 'fixed' and we can still choose to smile, laugh, be together and accept what is and learn a better way to move forward as we do so. 

A strong person cries as easily as they laugh.  A strong person embraces as easily as they fight.  A strong person accepts as easily as they judge.

May you allow your 'strength' to carry you forward. 

Let the chapters of my/our journey here on earth continue!

What are you going to do with your time today?  If you say you have no time, is this 100% true?!??  Mmmmm

STOP

Perhaps, we all could use the valuable tool of STOP!  STOP what we are doing and just change it up in one way; at the very least.  There is abundant chaos, horrific information, hurt, anger and fear in our world.  I almost can't breathe at times.

I'd like us all to STOP immediately doing things as usual and change one thing up right now today that will change the path of our world.  Just what if it really could!  Change one thing to pleasure and lightness today and my hope is that this pleasure and lightness will abound and darkness and pain will dissipate; and quickly, would be preferable. 

Live your truth; be vulnerable in the right places through your truth and trust that you have everything you need to carry on beautifully.  Perhaps, start with your family dynamics.  Lovingly, speak your truth of how you are feeling and the way the world (even within your household) is affecting you just now.  Tell them how you'd like it to be; your ultimate happy picture of how you would best be at your happiest. 

I am STOPPED.  I am waking up in the morning and going to bed at night.  I confer with many people through the day, mostly electronically, and I'm afraid to go out into this world that feels so dark just now.   AND, GO OUT I WILL.  I plan on getting in the car and driving; letting the windows down and blasting the music.  I'm going out for enjoyment today and I will not let fear, darkness and uncertainty stop me. 

The pained must be loved and the loved must be giving if we are to live a better, happier, stronger, lovelier life.  I know I want to. 

If you are in the position to give one extra smile today, please try it - you just may like it.  If you have no smile in you today, be open to feeling your lips curve up and wonderful chemicals release into your system and honor what and how you feel today.  You are 'here' for a real reason.  You are not making up the way you feel.  Listen to yourself, hear and respond in the manner that best brings you connected to your truth. 

STOP, FEEL, CARRY ON in one way that is different for you today.  Do it for yourself, your loved ones, your world and for me, please.

I need the world to feel, do, and live better.  I need this now today.  Please help me.

May you STOP, search, and do one thing that makes you know you have it going on because it makes you feel good!

Reading

I came across an interesting paragraph in the book I was reading the past few nights.  With the death of my fabulous Aunt "E", these words hit me strongly and strangely...

"It's my aunt Eleanor.  She was napping in her room, and Sallie went to check on her, and according to your mother, there's something wrong with Aunt Eleanor's breathing."  Mason stood up abruptly.  "Do we need to get a doctor?  Take her to the hospital?"  "Who knows?" Celia said.  "She's in her nineties."*

Is there a message in here somewhere in this reading.....Mmmmm

May you read into everything that pushes you closer to sharing your true self with all of us.

*From the book "Spring Fever" by Mary Kay Andrews

Aunt E - I love and miss you.  Thank you for being in my life and teaching me much.

Truths

"I never lie, Duchess.  I find the truth more interesting."

From the book "Island of Flowers" by Nora Roberts

May you be 'more interesting' always.

Save the World

"We don't need to save the world, just spend it more wisely."  Swami Beyondananda

"In fact, many of our strengths and weaknesses, the parts of ourselves we own as who we are, are directly attributable to familial and cultural perceptions downloaded into our minds before we were six years old.  Programmed perceptions acquired in these developmental years are primarily responsible for health and behavioral issues experienced in our adult lives."

"What we mean by self-consciousness isn't "I hope my hair looks okay," but, rather, a quality of being both a participant in life and an observer of life at the same time."

From the book, "Spontaneous evolution:  Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here)" by Bruce Lipton and Steve Bhaerman

May you recreate your thinking for your life as it is today.  Be present to your thoughts and let things work for you in the now.  BE YOU NOW

Brain Power?

From the book "Spontaneous Evolution:  Our Positive Future (and a Way to Get There from Here)" by Bruce Lipton and

Steve Bhaerman

 

 "The brain, like any governing entity, seeks harmony.  Neural harmony is expressed as a measure of congruency between the mind's perceptions and the life we experience.  An interesting insight into how the mind creates harmony between its perceptions and the real world is frequently illustrated in stage hypnosis shows.  A volunteer from the audience is invited onstage, hypnotized, and asked to pick up a glass of water, which the volunteer is told weighs one thousand pounds.  With that misinformation, the volunteer struggles unsuccessfully with straining muscles, bulging veins, and perspiration.  How can that be?  Obviously the glass doesn't weigh one thousand pounds even though the mind of the subject firmly believes that it does.  To manifest the perceived reality of a thousand pound glass of water, something that cannot be lifted, the hypnotized subject's mind fires a signal to the muscles used to lift the glass at the same time it fires contradictory signals to the muscles used to set the glass down!  This results in an isometric exercise wherein two groups of muscles work to oppose each other, which results in no net movement--but a lot of strain and sweat.  Cells, tissues, and organs do not question information sent by the nervous system.  Rather, they respond with equal fervor to accurate life-affirming perceptions and to self-destructive misperceptions.  Consequently, the nature of our perceptions greatly influences the fate of our lives."

 

In my own words and how I hear this....  What/how we think is what/how our bodies respond...

 

May your body be happy today.  May you change your thoughts if it isn't so. 

 

 

Torn

Somewhere between living in a beautiful oasis that belonged to me to placing my home up for sale and allowing the house to be 'staged' to allow others to be able to envision themselves as the resident of this home...

This is where my 'Shambala' is at:

 

(SORRY - 'token has expired" for the sales video.  If it becomes available again - I will post)  My own pictures are below before 'staging' occurred.)

 

May you enjoy it for me because I am still somewhat pained to see what was once mine feel like it has become the realtors.  And, I know this is the direction I truly want to go.  I want to create anew and, my next chapter, will not have such a grand house. 

 

Yes, I put myself here exactly where I am at.   No one else is responsible for me but me.

 

Yes, I made a mistake by creating this 'heartache' of still owning a home that feels like it is no longer mine.  I did the best I could with what I knew and where I was and what I believed. 

 

Yes, I love and have great pride in the detail of this home.

 

May it feel like a mini-vacation to you (if you enjoy looking at homes) and allow your own dreams to become your truth.  May you give yourself permission to have everything that you truly want from deep within.

"If you can imagine it, you can achieve it; if you can dream it, you can become it." – William Arthur Ward

Family Room

Formal DR

Formal LR

Informal DR/Fish Tank

Yoga Room

Sunbed Room

Kitchen

Master Bath

Automatic Blinds Up

Gym

Aerobic Room

Massage Room/

                                                                                Shooting Star on Ceiling

Theatre

Sauna