Da Door(s)

Doors.  They all lead somewhere.  They are for walking through.  They are for entering.  They are for closing.  We can choose to lock them or not.  We can keep them ajar.  They can be closed for privacy.  They can be open for air.

May you pick the 'door' that attracts you the most [currently] and step through.

Maybe you are supposed to visit there long-term.  Maybe it will be a quick and glorious experience.

May you walk through just as you are and bring the you that no one else can bring but YOU.

Choose well.  Choose you.  Choose love.

Choose the adventure that calls to you; the adventure that awaits.  When destiny knocks, may you answer.  You can relax.  If it is, in fact, your destiny, there is nothing that will keep you from it or it from you.  And, you will be able.  Destiny has a way of finding us.

May your own doors be open.  The door to your heart; the door to your life; the door to your mind; the door to your soul; the door to you full brilliance...

Let life flow to you and through you.  You will always be the common denominator of your life.

May you be aware of what you carry and bring forth.

Happy 2018!  Let's do this!  Walk on...  May you bring YOU wherever you find yourself.

Thank you.

Please note:  This is from my Facebook, Instagram and Twitter pages.  If you are so inclined, may you 'open the doors' to me here and join me.  I would be greatly honored.  May you do what supports you the most.

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The Gift of You

I can look at the gift of me from different angles.

The gift of me that God/the Universe gave me to be.  I can allow myself this.

As I love myself greatly and fall in love with my whole self, I connect to the wonderful gift of me.

As I share kindness, love and compassion, I can be a gift to others.

Any way I look at me being a gift and believing it, everyone wins.  Our world wins.

As you look at, become, own, love and believe in the gift of You, everyone wins.  Our world wins!

May we all be THE GIFT that is our innate destiny; our chosen behavior and the best, most loving version of love that we can be.

The Best Gift

"May you let your gift be you."  Carolyn J.

May you let your gift be YOU.  The you that feels best on/in/to you!

May you let your gift be your true self; from love.  

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate.

Merry Weekend to those that do not.

Meet your life where it is.  Bring your true loving self to it.  Create the ease, peace and fulfillment that you may be looking for.  Embrace and accept what is as best as you can; as often as you can.

Send 'them' love.  Know peace.

Be You

May you be who you are.  May you let love lead you.   May you be open to the truth and love within.   May you share it without.  Let ease.  Let peace.  Let fulfillment be yours.

I believe that as we are true to ourselves, we create the best path forward.  We empower others to do the same.  We open up to happiness and fulfillment.

I hope you feel the magic of love in the air.  I hope you know that you are a miracle and a gift.  We need you in our world or you wouldn't be here.

As you open up to the innate you, may you 'just be' from there.

It is the greatest gift we can give one another.

Let's support each other to know, be and live who we are.  May it be through kindness, trust and openness; as great as possible.

Peace.   It does start from within.

Without peace within, we cannot connect to peace without.  The peace that gives us silence, understanding, connection and togetherness; the inner knowing and trust of life and living.

You have everything you need for your entire lifetime inside of you.

Let you play out from love.

May you let peace into every cell of your being.  May it surround you and embrace you.   May it bubble up from the deep place within you that IS.

Today just may be the day.   Decide to live the totality of you and your dreams through love.

Thank you.  Namaste.  And so it is.  Amen.  It is so possible when we believe.

May you meet yourself at the cross streets of peace and love.  Oh yeah!

Step by Step

We are all walking on our own divine path; our own stairway to heaven...

What you are feeling right now, in this moment, is, perhaps, a choice that you are making.

May you ask yourself if you are choosing to feel this way... and, if not you, who.  Who is pushing all the right (or wrong) buttons in you that is creating the feeling that you are experiencing... not so much the experience but the feeling that comes with the experience/situation.

Feelings are a result of our thoughts, our surroundings, our tasks at hands and our beliefs.  Our experiences create our feelings by the way we respond to same.

And, I know for me, I have a choice; more often than not.  No matter what happens to me, what my experience is, I can respond by using my mind and my heart together and create the best path moving through and forward.

I find myself feeling afraid and uncertain/unsure.  I find myself breathing more heavy than usual.  I find myself feeling heavy and somewhat paralyzed.  Does this happen when my thoughts, heart, mind and soul are not aligned.  I think so.

As I'm feeling so many things and unsure of what the outcome of scleroderma, drugs and me will be, I can find myself being hard on myself instead of gentle.  Oh, how I like the gentle love much more than the harsh treatment that I am able to give myself.

When I have trust in what is; trust in myself; and trust in the process of life, I can breathe more free, feel more light and live happier in this moment.

When I know that all will work out; all is working out; and I am okay in this moment regardless how I feel, I connect to my own peace within.  Oh, how I love peace within.

When I am happier with myself, I can be happier with you; with others.

When I allow love to come first before anything and everything else that I feel and experience, I seem to know peace within.  It is who I want to be.  It is what I what to experience.

May you know who you want to be (who you are) and what you want to experience as you go through the experiences of life that are, apparently, yours to live.

May you choose your own fulfillment and contentment in each step that you take; as often as possible and as much as possible.

In this, I believe, is where we create Peace on Earth and it can (maybe does) begin with you.  May you let it be so.

The Joy of Christmas

The joy of Christmas... or not.

It is my choice.  It is your choice.  It is our choice how we choose to celebrate Christmas.

I have gotten away (a lot) from the commercial aspect of Christmas and am fully committed to the loving aspect of Christmas.

It can be a very joyful time of year.  It can be quite the opposite for many.

What we were taught, shown and have experienced of Christmas pasts may not be the best things for Christmas today.  It is okay.

May you meet yourself where you are at.  May you be true to you.   May you let love carry the joy of Christmas for you.

The have to's, the should's, the better's, the 'but I always did it this way' may not matter as much (and definitely not feel as good) as the love, inner joy, inner peace and trust in doing Christmas as you are this year; as you are today.

If you dread something, face it from love.   If you are hurting, face it with love.  If you are distressed, face it with love.   Do not shy away from what you are feeling.   Embrace it, feel it and lovingly process it to the best of your ability.

Our loved ones want us to be happy.  Only we can tell/show them what is happy to us.  Dare we share this honest truth with them; with ourselves...

Christmas is Jesus' birthday.   Christmas is spirit, peace, joy and goodwill to all.

May you stay in the spirit of Christmas to the best of your ability.  What feels right to you...  What feels joyful to you...  What feels celebratory to you...

This is my wish for how I hope/pray you spend your Christmas this year.  As we live in our own loving truth, we empower others to do the same.

Be where you are and, lovingly, share the spirit of Christmas with your own self and with others.  This is the gift that gives most deeply.

May you give as deeply as you possibly can.

Merry Christmas to the you that you are today.  Nothing else, perhaps, matters as much.  Feel and be the spirit from which you are experiencing life now.  Always let love.

Let it be a 'Oh Holy Night' and not a 'oh no I don't want to deal with this' week...

Heart Open.   Mind Open.   Truth On.

Whatever brings you joy through love, may you do that.

Hustle and Bustle

With the holiday season in full force, I realize that I am stopping to take notice of the 'hustle and bustle' that is going on inside of myself.

Whew.

Intense energies are happening.  Intense change is occurring.  Intense love is available.  Intense feelings are loud.  For me, I'd like to reach and turn the dial down a bit, just now, in this moment.

I am juggling medication and medical marijuana and neither seem to give me a reprieve in the here and now.  I have noticed moments of no pain and comfort.  THIS is huge in itself.  And, in this moment, there is a war going on inside as my body and mind are insecure with what is going on.

There is no direction or perfect forum available to follow.  As new connections; new updates are becoming available, old ways and old habits are being questioned and replaced.

We are in a deep state of flux.  Business is not what it was or handled in a manner of certain by-laws and structure.  Old structures are being destroyed while new and, hopefully improved, methods are being created and sought out.

We are evolving.  Evolution is necessary.  Evolution is an adventure.  Evolution can feel challenging.

"Sometimes when your world feels like it is falling apart, it is really falling into place."  Unknown

I believe this is exactly what is happening.  We are growing together.  We are building anew.  We are seeking better ways.  We are creating and paving better paths.  We are individually, together being challenged and taught.

I can choose to look at it as an exciting time.  I can choose to look at it like 'uh-oh'.  It seems I waver between the two currently.  I'd like to stay more on the exciting adventure side.

May you see your life as an exciting adventure.  May you believe that where you are is exactly where you are supposed to be.  May you believe that things that you do not know, you will, at exactly the right time you need to.  

May you live in the present moment.  Breathe.  Seek without judgement.  Open up without fear.  

Everything is temporary.

Enjoy what you have.  Open up to an easier, better way when you feel threatened or challenged.

We human beings are very vulnerable and, yet, it is this vulnerability that sometimes seems so hard to share.

Open up and love who you are.  Open up and love what you feel because it is in these feelings that we are guided.

May you  trust yourself in a way that you know everything will work out and you are okay and you will be okay with whatever comes your way.  You may not be in love with some of it.  You will know how to get through it; even if it is moment by moment.

It is in this present moment that we live.  May you keep your mind where your body is and let kind, loving and easy energies participate with everything you do; as much and as often as possible.

If you find yourself in hustle and bustle mode, open up to it.  Be aware of who are you in it... Can you choose to relax through and participate with love...

Be a Badas*

Many of us want to be cool, important, powerful, unafraid, and strong to create the life that makes us happy.

I like badas*ses!  The energy they emit is contagious and usually fun-loving and courageous.  The way they own who they are, the space they take up and the fearless way they live their life is an empowerment that I love to tap into.  I love to tap into my own badas*-ism.

To know that I can be anything or anyhow I want to be is so freeing and invigorating to me.  It is a freedom that I enjoy every time I give it to myself.  When I share this with another bada*s, it feels like great fun; that I'm living the most vital part of myself.

Don't ever shy away from being a bada*s.   Just always be a bada*s with a good heart.

These things together create the best version of our self.

I wish you the best version of yourself.  

As you breathe into your bada*s-ism, may you own who you are, may you be okay with taking up whatever space you take up and be fearless in living your life that is inside of you to live.  May you just do it with your heart involved and open.  Do it with no harm to another.  Do it because it is in you to do.

Whatever you want to label it - whether it be warrior, goddess, wizard, spiritual gangster, bada*s or any number of labels,

May you own everything that you are while building everything you want to be while doing everything that is inside of you to do.

No label necessary.   Just do you.  Just be you.  Just be you to completion again and again and again.

You are a powerful source that came from the most powerful of sources.  Own your triumphs, your challenges, your behaviors and your wins.  Stand in them without wavering.  Live your life.  Live you.

Honor our Creator by honoring who you know you are meant to be.  Let love and kindness be the driving force.  May a gently, undying strength lead you to own everything that is inside of you to be.  

Baby steps allowed.  Huge steps allowed.  All in divine timing.

Whatever it takes, own the power, love, beauty and unwavering desires that you have within.

This is as bada*s as you can get.

You were given this power to lift up our world, yourself and others.  May you use it.

Living Things

Living Things need living things.  Plants need water, fertilizer, love, and carbon dioxide.  Plants need the seeds or the roots of same to grow more and make more of the same.   They give us energy, love, color, beauty and happiness.

We need each other as that when we are happy and have achieved something, it is better to have someone to share the success with.  When we are down and out, while I sometimes like to be alone, I also enjoy company and another's loving perspective and support.

Living things need living things.

We take.  We give.  It is best when the taking and giving is balanced out somewhat.  It is better when we honor what we need; what another needs.

It is wonderful and rewarding to give what another needs or wants.  It is wonderful to be the recipient of true and caring love and support.

It is a win-win when we give and take, share and support, love and empower.

When we are true to ourselves, we are true to each other.  When we are true to each other, we create the best and most truest path forward from here.  When we build the past path forward through truth of who we are, we create the best possibility to be the best version of ourselves.  When we are the best version of our self, we feel so good and fulfilled that it becomes easier and possible to empower other's to achieve the same.

Living things need living things.

May you connect to the living.  May you connect to your 'alive' life.  May you open your heart, mind and soul and match what is on the inside of you with what you share on the outside.  May you share you with love.

Let love.  Let the door to your heart open (and swing) both ways.  Inward to the life that is you.  Outward to the life that you want to live; through to the life you want to share with other living things/people.

May we build each other up.  Support each other.  Be happy for each other's success(es).  Comfort each other's pain.

We do not fail until we claim that we fail.  We win by allowing life to flow on, through, out and around.

Share the life that is yours with as many other lives as possible.  In this, we share living.

Sharing living is the best gift we can give each other.

Sure, we can do a lot alone.  And the real and only joy comes from within.  It is what we connect to without that can connect us to the joy within.  If we don't have or allow for joy within, it will never come from external sources.

May you get connecting.  Live.  Off-shoots; off-springs; carrying on... this is what keeps life going and produces and fulfills like nothing else can.

May you keep your heart, mind and soul open to all living things.  Perhaps, every one; everything you come in contact with, is a possible connection that empowers you and, at the very least, can enhance what lives inside of you.

We are One at the depth of who we are.

User Friendly

I have been having some time with my computer.  It was slow and unresponsive.  The I-Cloud was not working.  My photos were not working.  Very little was in sync.

I had the "Geek Squad" out today and the ease and speed in which it is working is truly a joy.  A 'geek' is a very helpful and brilliant person who I appreciate greatly.  !

My computer is now user-friendly.

My fingers fly across the keyboard.  My NEW mouse glides easily across the mouse pad.  It is easy to  highlight things.  It is easy to upload a photo to the post.

I breathe easier because I had the "Geek Squad" visit me today to repair, fix and teach me how to better use my computer.  Yay.

I have become a very want-it-to-happen-now; want-it-to-work-smoothly; expect-it-to-happen-quickly when it comes to the computer.  We can reach across ponds, barriers and countries and we immediately are in touch with each other.  We can search for an answer to any question and get some kind of response.

Man, this is certainly 'connected'.  There is a lot of fun, beauty, helpfulness and possibility in this.  There can be TMI and too much to take in.  As we learn to balance our wants, desires, and needs, we are learning to balance our lives in acceptance, flow and the ability to learn.  We are expanding.  We are seeing with openness and acting in full disclosure more and more.  We have the ability to empower and not judge one another.  We have the ability to understand and empathize with other cultures, ways and beliefs.  The possibility of connecting to and lifting each other up is more doable than ever before.

I hope you want in.  I hope you want in to the fascination of being different.  I hope you want in to lifting one another up.  I hope you want in to creating the best, happiest possible world that we have ever experienced.  I hope you want in.

I hope you are up for a group hug.  A group hug in the belief that we don't have to hurt each other to make our own lives better.  A group hug in the belief that our differences don't have to be our fights.  A group hug that our beliefs don't have to be the end game.  A group hug that freedom to be who we are; as lovingly and as easily as possible is possible.  A group hug.  A world hug.

I am in.  I am so in.

I feel better when I feel connected than not connected.

May we let our breath connect us.  May we let our human-ness connect us.  May we let our gentle strength connect us.  May we let our will to love and be loved connect us.  May we let ourselves expand and connect and stay this way.

In this, we win.  May we win.

Namaste'...  At the depth of my soul, I honor the depth of your soul.  We are one.  Just what if we were all here at this time; on this earth; now; to better build our world and each other up.

To create Heaven on Earth.

May you open your arms and feel the connection of our group hug; a universal hug.  May you be in.

When, and if, you are ready, imagine it so.  Send the light from your heart and soul into everything that you do, into everything that you are, into everyone you meet.  Let your loving light shine.

May we all be user-friendly in our quest for a raw and deep soul-to-soul connection.

May you believe in you.   May you believe in me.  May you believe in us.  

Shout Out

Thank you to all the people in the countries listed below who have visited me here.  I appreciate you.  You are always welcome.

I was pleasantly - very pleasantly - surprised to see the day I returned, wondering if people were still here, that over 170 people visited the previous day.

Thank you from the bottom of my heart.  It would fulfill me to know that you have gotten to know yourself better; love yourself more and strive to do your best to be your own best friend as much and as often as possible.  This is what I want for us all.  What a beautiful world and life we will create when we choose this.  This is my ultimate prayer; for you, for me, and for us.

A big, warm, loving shout out to:

United States                                  Russia

France                                             Singapore

Germany                                         Canada

United Kingdom                             Brazil

Hungary                                          Czechia

Netherlands                                     Spain

Poland                                             Ukraine

Portugal                                           Morocco

May you know and be the best version of YOU with as much ease and love as possible.  You matter.  You are enough.  I care.

                                                          Photo by Jess

I'm Back

I am back.  I come to this blog wondering if there was lost interest while I was away.  I hope that I could touch people exactly where they wanted/needed to be -- as to touch the most vital piece of them so that they could live the best version of themselves.

It all happens within.  What is within is the most precious gift or horrendous challenge that we know.

Much happens outside of our self.  It is in the process of what is happening that makes us and creates our experience(s).

For example, two people could see a snake.  One, who doesn't mind snakes would have a peaceful go with it.  The second, who is freaked out by snakes, would not have as pleasant a time in this situation.

It is in how we process the situation; what we believe about the situation; how we see the situation that creates our experience of the same.

California was a nice experience for me.  The beauty of the fall in Napa and the warmer daytime weather in San Diego were treats for me.  Nature is beautiful everywhere.  Nature is also powerful.  And, in nature (and life) - to fight it - creates the angst.

The recent and present fires are sad and extremely challenging.  Here, in another example, we have the power of ability to process in our minds the most unpleasant of situations.  Because this situation can surely be very unpleasant; I would think.  We can also chose gratefulness that it wasn't worse than it is/was.  We can see people pulling together, helping one another; the boundless amount of people that come because they care.

Where we focus is what produces our experience(s).

May you focus on what feels best on/in you whenever you can.  However, be true to you and whatever you feel is okay and real.  It is true to you.  And it is okay.

May you find a way to be as loving and kind to yourself, as possible, in every situation that you encounter.

You have this power if you open up to it and allow it.  My wish for you is that you can find your way to it eventually.

You matter.  You are enough.  I care.

We walk forward individually, together.  We walk forward with open hearts and minds.  We walk forward supporting each other to be the best of ourselves.

Adventure On

I am getting ready for an adventure to the west coast of the USA.  I live on the east coast.  It has been a while since I traveled this many miles and for this time period.

I am not allowing my mind and thoughts to not be chaotic.  The chaos within me, that I am creating, is prevalent and loud.  It is uncomfortable and I know that within me is the ability to stop it and, yet, I have not done so.

I know once I leave the house I will be good.  It is in leaving the house, my animals; it is packing everything that I may need; it is in not forgetting anything that I need; it is the unknown with many things already scheduled that has me a bit freaked.

I say as long as I have my identification and a credit card, I can make it through.  And, yet, this time, I am not allowing this to bring me much comfort.

I haven't dressed for so many functions in such a short time period and I'm letting this freak me out.  It is traveling with medical marijuana as it is illegal to do so that has me freaked.  I haven't decided if I will be bringing it with me or leaving it home.  The two states I will be in it is legal.  But, nationally, it is not.  

I only use it at night as it hasn't become my friend or much help or support yet.

My head spins with all the possibilities.   I find myself thinking of the worst case scenarios instead of being excited about the best case scenarios.

I leave here without my computer and this site is not working on my phone or Ipad just now as google has to update it to run with the lastest OIS systems.  I am uncertain if google is going to or not.  I don't know when I will be able to post again.

I come here to let you know that I will be away from my computer.   Although, I haven't been posting much anyway, I still don't want to go without saying goodbye.

We are all on an adventure.  Every day is an adventure.

May we tap into the excitement of and contemplate the best outcome of everywhere we find our self and each situation we find our self in.

Adventure on!

May we open to all the great possibilities.  May we be open to the love in each moment.  May we be open to a calming breath in each moment.  May we be open.

I wish you glorious adventures.  I wish you the best of You.

Grateful. Thankful. Honored.

In America it will soon be Thanksgiving Day.  It is a day where we can take extra time to be aware of all that we have to be grateful for.  It is a day of feasting.  It is a day of being with those that we love.  

I am grateful for my loved ones; my animals; my comfort; ease; support and help; supporting and helping; beautiful nature; the awareness of my breath; clothes to wear; food to eat; uplifting movies and TV shows; entertainment like Cirque De Soleil; music to dance to and move to; my own ability to move; and, while it is even hard to write—I am thankful to have known scleroderma in the way that it has brought me to my knees and sent me to the depth of myself.   

It has given me awareness of the tiniest things that I have learned that deserve my greatest appreciation.  My husband asking me what I need.  My experience that I can be in pain and still choose love.  Someone smiling at me.  My heart connecting with another’s heart.  How one breath can change tension in my body.  How one thought either can ease the way I feel or destroy a most blessed moment.  My ability to look for the blessing in what feels challenging.  The choice and energy to do what one wants to.    

It is said that we may not remember a conversation or a reason for a connection with someone but we do remember how being with a person makes us feel.   

On my deathbed, I do not think that I will say I wish I had more or wish I worked more.  On our deathbeds, perhaps, we are grateful for the love we have shared.  It is the only thing we can take with us; just maybe.   

So, Happy Thanksgiving to you if you celebrate it.   

Anyone of us can choose gratitude and thankfulness at any time.  

May you know what you feel gratitude for.  May you even thank the person(s) or the situation(s) that has(have) honored you.   

May you be sure to include yourself; as you and what you do is what helps create your life experience.  May you be sure to honor yourself. 

May you even, just maybe, make a pact that you are and will be kind, available, truthful and honorable to yourself and as many people and situations as possible.   And, it is always possible if you just give yourself the permission that this is who you want to be and are.  Give thanks.  It amazes me how blessed we are when we open up to the endless possibilities.   

Even in darkness there are blessings.  May you look for them as often as feels best to you.  

Thankfulness on...

"The Spiritual Healer"

As I am here at my computer, I look down and see a place setting card that says "The Spiritual Healer"...

This makes me very happy.  I want to be a healer.  I want to touch other's spirits.  I want to empower you to be all that you can be.

I have learned a lot through my own pain and experiences.  I have been classed in many modalities in the name of healing and connecting to one's deepest source.

I understand and know many possibilities of seeing, living and being in this human form.  I know triumphs and challenges.

This does not mean that I am perfect.  This does not mean that I'm a know-it-all.  This does not mean that I don't get stuck and have my own 'stuff' to work on and through.

It does mean I care.  It does mean I want to help.  It does mean that I listen and am open to what I hear.  It does mean that just maybe I can give some insight into an easier, more valuable and helpful way to see and do things.

I've been having somewhat of a hard time with this blog posting site.  It doesn't seem to work on the new OIS system on my phone or my Ipad.  It seems to get stuck more often than not just now on my computer.   I've had some frustrating and slow times with it.  I find the screen freezing from time to time.  I find it less inviting to come here because of that.

Interesting, how I am also finding myself freezing, slow and stuck throughout the days.

And, because of that and my own stuckness and experiences that I am currently living in, I've hidden from myself and from you.  I've sat in my truth not knowing how to share it.  Probably not wanting to share it and look at it through the eyes of seeing it written out.

I am still between the medical marijuana and the hydrocodone for pain management with scleroderma.  My skin feels very tight.  It is like I have a 'spanx' on without having a spanx on.  That can't be all that bad, right...  Ha!

I wake up not wanting to wake up [get up]; not wanting to do the day.  My hands feel swollen and like catcher's mitts.  I am nauseous, tired, and my screaming body can not find relief. The ringing in my head is loud.  The fearfulness that I am experiencing inside of myself [just because] is an unwelcomed 'guest'.   My mind feels discombobulated and uncertain.  My body doesn't know what to do with the mixture and the lower dose of pain medicine as I have cut back approx. 50% while adding the cannabis. My hands turn purple and hurt when I am stressed or in cold conditions.  I am realizing how a spoon doesn't fit in my mouth.  I am very aware my breathing and heartbeat are more labored.  Chemical withdrawal -- I think so.

I look up the medical marijuana reviews.  It says 'happy', 'calm', 'creative', 'energy'.  I have not experienced much of any of these lately.

My body's chemistry is unstable and revamping.  I'm staying in the truth and flow of this as much as I am able.  I find myself wanting to not just sit in silence but lay in silence.  I'm grateful that I have the opportunity to do so.  I can easily beat myself up here and I have learned that beating myself up helps no one and not a thing.

So, I love myself through.  I love my spirit.  I love my soul.  I love.

Even through pain, challenge and the unknown, I can still choose love.

May you choose love through any pain, challenges and/or the unknown; to the best of your ability.  
You are worth it.

Flow with the current and currency of your life.  Let ease, truth, love and hope carry you when life doesn't feel so grand.  Hug yourself.

When life feels grand, enjoy it and be grateful for it and pat yourself on the back.  Yay you!

Until we meet again...  I care.  I send you love.  I send you hope.  I know that you matter.  You matter because you 'are'...  I have no doubt of this.

Under Construction

Our world and much in it feels like it is under construction.

Many people's lives are topsy turvy, upside down, changing, challenging, freeing and just plain different.

There are many disasters, danger zones and powerful energies to process, change, grow, do better and create anew through.

Many of us are feeling overwhelmed, at times.

It is, perhaps, in this 'overwhelmness' that the greatest possibilities show themselves.

I know my stress level is not pointing to calm.   I know that I feel in disarray and sometimes blind to any good answers.  I know I walk forward merely by questioning my goal in the moment; relying on my faith and trust that I am where I am supposed to be; and knowing for sure that what is being created through me is what is supposed to be created for me and for our world.

May you walk forward knowing your goal in the moment of feeling overwhelmed.  May you rely on your faith and trust that you are where you are supposed to be.  May you know for sure that what is being created through you is the best possible for mankind and for mother nature.  When we create with an open heart and mind, miracles and ease show up.  

We are a work in progress.  We are here to tap into and 'grow' our own light.  We are here to participate in shining a light on our own experiences, situations, innate knowing and the oneness that is connected from the depth of who we are.

As we go through the oh so many 'construction zones', may we add/extend/offer the light.  It is our job to follow and create the best lit paths.  It is our job to connect to our own peace, love and joy.  It is our job to live in the light.  It is our job to be the light.  It is our job to let the light win over the darkness.  It is our job to create, participate and live in the best version of our self.  It is our job to say what our job is...

It is not so much our surroundings.  It is more how we reply to our surroundings.  This is where peace can be destroyed or lived.

May we walk through, survive and do the work that has to be done in the construction zones and may we find ourselves 'in the zone' of positivity more and more and more.

Get in your most brilliant zone.  Let the best, happiest and most fulfilling energies win.

Let what is 'light' to your being win.

Hold Each Other's Hearts

The bombardment of tragedy in our every day world is loud.  Both natural and man-made disasters and strikes have hit many of us in one way or another.

My heart goes out to those suffering.  I go to sleep sending out love and prayer.  I hold a space of belief in my heart that we, as humans, will do better.

We will know kindness and support for one another and that each one of us matters.  We will reach out for help.  We will help.

It is my wish, just now, that we will hold each other's hearts.  Wherever you are, in your mind, you can hold the heart of another.

May we feel the beat of life within each other.  May we respect it.  May we cherish it.  May we support and believe that we can hold each other's hearts and in doing so, we can connect in love; in the desire to create and live with ourselves being loving, healthy and whole.  

There are many, many, many more people who care and want to help than are lost and only know hurt.

May we let our hearts shine light to dim the hurt [way down].  

May we hold each other's hearts with the greatest of compassion...

As you love yourself and live from the beauty of your own heart, you are/offer love.

As we hold each other's hearts, we connect in the way we were meant to connect.  Love not War.  Acceptance not Judgment.  Openness not closed ignorance.

As we bring our most open and loving heart into each situation, we create a space for others to do the same.  The best we can do is live with an open and loving heart.  As we connect to this deep yearning for easy connections, may they happen and be so.  

May our hearts be/grow strong and loving together.

I know there can be fear in opening up our own heart.  Pain can be so great when our hearts hurt.  May we trust ourselves that we will be there for our own self no matter what and as we stand strong in our own loving truth, we can get through anything because we choose to 'love through'.  In loving through, perhaps, we create the most loving option(s) forward.  

Beliefs

What we believe, we see life from these beliefs.  We experience life from these beliefs.  We live from these beliefs.

If you have a belief in you that hurts; makes you worry and/or uncomfortable, you can question this belief.

Question it in a way to ask yourself if this belief is 100% without any doubt true.  Do I know this to be carved in stone and can't do anything about...

Usually there is something we can do to challenge the belief, change up the belief and, maybe, even see it in a whole new, more productive and empowering light.

When feeling confused, uncertain or overwhelmed, we can ask ourselves what is our goal in this very moment.  Focus on this moment's goal.  It brings more depth and calm into our minds so that we can focus to accomplish this current goal.  It gives us a focus to let everything else alone but this current goal.  It can take away the mind's chatter.

When we are caught in a battle that stresses us or throws us off our game, we can choose to not battle.  We can choose to breathe and be in the moment.  We can be open to see as many sides of this battle as possible.  You are the one responsible to choose to battle or not.  Is your goal peace and calm or is it something else...  Is it love that you want to experience or something else... Again, what are your goals and beliefs...

What we have experienced are what brings on our beliefs.  What we were told can be our beliefs.  The more dramatic experience or statement can be the more tightly we hold on to the belief about it.

When someone speaks on a subject that we already have insecurities about, it can open up and emblazon the insecurity deeper into our being.  Or we can question the truth of what is being offered and what we are connecting to and know that there is a lot of opportunity between white and black and all or nothing.  Perhaps, the peace that will come to us is in the middle somewhere between the most dramatic and our firm or set belief(s).

So much of these kind of things are happening within and around many of us.  What once worked easily, no longer works.  What once was challenging can become easy.  What once wrecked us can strengthen us.  What once gave us contentment needs a new way.  What once was thought as success can look and feel different than before.  Where once there was a place to hide, ignore, sweep under the rug, ignore the elephant in the room are often not options in today's world.

Perhaps, this is the best time in history to gain our best of selves and follow through from truth, trust, openness, knowledge and instinct.

We are coding and recoding what is.  It can be a challenging time.  It can be a beyond exciting time.

May you trust that you are where you are supposed to be and in these moments as you are now, it is up to you to create, recreate and co-create from what has been written on your soul.

May you follow what brings you joy, lights and lifts you up and envision and create what is inside of you to envision and create from here.

Happy envisioning and creating on.  This can be your time.  You only need to believe.

I believe in you.  I believe in us.  I believe in homeostasis.

May we all choose it, believe in it and be it.

And so it is...

Thank you.

Wishing you the best you possible and may we support each other to connect to, honor, and experience and share the best of who each of us are.

Exciting times.  Own yourself...

Merry Meet

I meet you here with nothing really on my mind.  I come here wanting to offer love, peace and calm in a sometimes uncalm world.

There is mass destruction going on throughout the globe.  There is destruction going on within each of us; just maybe.

The 'old' way of doing things is changing to the new.  Communication, connection, quickness, health, wealth and creating is becoming more and more different than it was.

Questions are being asked.  Stories are being discovered.  Feelings are being dealt.  Anger/Fear is being felt.  Much will no longer be ignored.

The truth of what is is begging to be lived.

I believe that by going within, to the depth of one's self, is connecting, knowing and is, perhaps, the best way to create out and forward.

We each are here with gifts that can support the empowerment of love, togetherness and betterment.

What you have inside of you is invaluable to the world - your world, our world and my world.  You are made as you are in the exact manner that has the most significance.

When we trust ourselves, love ourselves and offer peace and acceptance, we can BE on the best, most knowing, most creative and most successful paths forward.  I do mean to accept what you don't like but only to meet it where it is to embrace it, process it and create from it.

Ignoring it or numbing from it does not change it in the manner that feeling it head on does.

What is it you love to do - may you do it.

What is it that makes you happiest - allow it.

What makes you feel whole - feel it.

As you are true to you from a loving and tender place, this is the place that you can share with others.

When you are fulfilled, you share this fulfillment with others.

May you believe that where you are is exactly where you are supposed to be for this lifetime in this moment.  As you embrace it and allow it and meet it exactly as it is shown to you from the truth of how you feel about it [and from a place of love], awesome and inspiring creation follows.

May you let the awesome creations that are within you free.  Embrace your own awesomeness and empower yourself.  In this, you empower others.  

How cool is this divine set-up of living.  Let it be.  Let you be.  Let love lead.

May you see, feel and live the masterpiece that is YOU.

                                                           'Just 9Be U'  "Grow Yourself Complete"

New World; Shift; Ascension

New World; Shift; Ascension...

These are just some of the words I am seeing and reading quite a bit lately.

Enlightenment...   This just may be the most often used 'new' word I read on social media.

Do they mean different things for different people...  Probably.   Everyday words like 'play' and 'work' can often be deciphered differently.

Each one of us can only really know our own experience(s); our own journey(s).  As we live each day, we experience life unlike every single other person on the planet.

I experience me.  You experience you.

It is within these experiences that our lives are created.

How exciting.  How cool.  How scary.  How interesting.

This just may be that good news/bad news type of thing.  We are responsible for ourselves. 

How wonderfully unique each of us are.  How challenged we can feel.  What challenges one may be a gift to another.  What feels successful to one may feel less than to another.

People make the world go 'round. As we each 'play' our own unique part, we come together as a whole.  We make up the whole.

May you let it all flow through you just as it is now.

Perhaps, we don't really need to know the meaning of everything to know the truth of our self.

May you be open to what you are experiencing.  May you be open to love.  May you be open to gentleness.   May you be open to your truth.  May you be open to life flowing through you as it shows itself to you.

How you respond; what you think; what you say and what you focus on is what creates your life and your experience of life.

May you respond, think, say and focus on the happiness, calm and growth that is a part of who you are.

Namaste.

May you live in the natural splendor of YOU.

Breathe

May you breathe.  And,  may you know that you are... !

I like to just feel the air I breathe into my body; feel my stomach fill up like a balloon; and slowly let the air release and pull my belly in and let all the air out of my lungs.  Follow the breath in and out of one's body.  Repeat.  Repeat as many times as it feels right to open up to the inner peace that is you(rs).

Breathing.  It is nice to know that I am... !

Sometimes, perhaps, one can notice that the air is cooler coming in and warmer going out of the body.  Just be with it.

As I breathe out, I can let my 'skeleton', organs, muscles and skin relax and let go.  I can find any tension in my body and let it go.  I can just breathe and invite peace and letting go.  Just 'hang' for a moment or two.

What a beautiful gift to one's self...

May you breathe and be aware of all that is you.  May you let it all go but your breath [in this moment].  

Boo!

Today is All Hallows Eve Day - Halloween!  Happy Halloween to those who partake!

I have been resistant to coming here.  I don't love where my life is just now and I feel like I don't know how to share same.

I am still trying the medical marijuana.  My body and mind are not easily taking to it.  I feel jittery, anxious and hopeful.

I brought my 'medical marijuana card' with me to the pain management doctor to be on the up and up.  She immediately lowered my dose of hydrocodone.  Ugh.  Not what I wanted.  I want the freedom to discover what works and what doesn't.  She took this away from me somewhat.  I can guess at the reason(s) and what does it really matter.

I fought it all the way home hearing myself say again and again 'I am done', 'I am done'.  I felt so beaten down.

I have since realized to not fight it and do the best I can with it and just maybe this is the universe supporting me.  Just what if this is so...

Fighting it hurts me.  Embracing it and 'playing it out' to see where I find myself feels kinder to myself.  Beating myself up because I don't like what life is showing me doesn't change what life is showing me.  It just takes away from the moments of possible peace within.

I really like peace within.!.

May you choose peace.

May you choose your own peace within; as often and as much as possible.

Another Day

As I sit at my computer, I notice that I hear the air conditioner blowing its cool air.  I hear the vacuum running.  I hear music on the television.  I hear the fountain trickling the water through its pump and over rock.  I see the palms dancing in the wind.  There is a light and cooler breeze outside.  The sky is both blue and has scattered fluffy white clouds.

I feel the chair and floor underneath me supporting me.  I recognize if my shoulders are relaxed.  Little Bear and Tiffany (my two little dogs) lay near me, relaxed.

I breathe.  I realize gratitude for comfort and for help.  I love the blue sky and I love the palm fronds dancing.  I'm grateful for my breath.  I am grateful for my dogs.

I am having lunch with a friend.  It feels like it is long overdue.  I'm grateful for friends.  I'm grateful for food.  Ha!

We are nearing the end of October and the holidays are beginning their descent on us.  We can choose how we want to experience them.

May you meet the holidays where you are this year and let love guide you; self love and love for others.  

The door to our heart works best when it swings both ways.  Love is empowering, uplifting, beautiful and a great guide.

May you let love be empowering, uplifting, beautiful and one of your best guides.

"Today is a good day, I have never seen it before."  Maya Angelou

May you open up to a fresh new day.  May you open up to gratitude.  May you be aware of everything that you can give thanks for.  

May each day be a reason to bring your best of self with you wherever you are.

We are not what happens to us.  We are how we react to what happens.

Best of Self Reacting!  

Where I'm At

I am trying medical cannabis.  I haven't fallen in love with it as of yet.  I am hopeful my being will and I will know peace in the dis-ease of scleroderma.

I know miracles happen every day.  I believe from dis-ease going into ease is one of many of them.

There are at least two 'strains' of marijuana offered in Florida.  One is for day time intake which could give people pain free moments and, perhaps, energy.  There is a nighttime one that helps to sleep and keep the pain away. There is also a hybrid which I believe contains both strains.  I have much to learn yet.  I know the CBD oil capsules did not work well with my current chemistry.  I hear wonderful things about healing and marijuana.

These are surely interesting times we find ourselves in--in so many ways. 

I feel like I'm in nowhere land trying everything out and journaling when I feel best and when I do not.  I am open to learning (and doing) what is best for me.

May you tread with gentleness and learn what you are interested in.

Guilt is still a 'built-in' thing with me.  I heard myself saying that I have different options now.  I have the largest amount of options that I have ever had and I am told to take it on as I deem necessary.  I have the freedom to alter, switch, subsidize and take or not take as I feel best.  What a beautiful gift indeed.  To allow my inner knowingness to lead me in the now and going forward.  What a great opportunity to learn to trust my most basic of instincts.  The great feeling of being in homeostasis (balance; working in harmony).  Allow instinct.  Let go of things that we have learned that hold us back.

I am the only one experiencing life as I experience life.

You are the only one to experience life as you experience life.

May you be gentle, kind, smart and trusting of what you feel, know, believe, and live.  You can change any of these at any time.  You can choose which ones to experience and which ones to let go of.  

May you give yourself the freedom to reach your goal(s) in the most pleasant of ways for you.  

May we let life be easy and may we trust our self that we know what makes us whole, complete, and fulfilled.  May you know that it is your birthright to be whole, complete and fulfilled.

Get YOU on(ward).

"Super Soul Sunday" OWN

"The simple intention to rest, consistently applied, turns the valley of the shadow into sweet surrender."  Martha Beck; Super Soul Instagram

How beautiful this is to me!  Joy in simplicity and surrendering to rest sounds like pure peace and happiness to me.

Many of our lives are so overwhelming and far from simple.  So many of us fight to not surrender and to not rest.  I often think that I surely don't want to miss something good because I am resting.  And, just what if, the rest itself is the 'something good' that I do miss in the fear of missing out in life; buying into the complex competition of what we sometimes call life.

Just what if life isn't a competition; a challenge; a 'should'...  Just what if we are all winners being who we are as we are meant to be.  And by believing and being this truth that is within our self of who we are, there is nothing to compete against.

We all get exactly what we are supposed to experience in the exact time we are supposed to experience it.  There is nothing that will get in its way and there is nothing that will stop our unique journey of life from happening exactly as we are meant to experience it.

What if in resting when we are tired, we win.  We become the most productive we can be.  What if we don't put pressure on our self in the name of creating, building, becoming and/or being who we are being called to be; in living our unique vocation.  What if we stop the fight of withholding rest...

What if, when you do get tired, you acknowledge it and respond favorably...

May you surrender to the healing; the beauty sleep, the rest of one's tired self when the need for it shows up. 

You can relax in a store line or a doctor's office, in a traffic jam or at a standstill, or for even a part of your break time.  You can relax by just concentrating on letting go of any tension in your body.  You can relax by observing your breath.  You could choose to notice your surroundings more.  Whatever it takes to just let go and/or relax for even just moments at a time, will bring you to a sweeter you; a more relaxed and awarely energetic being.

May you give in to the sweet surrender of rest.  May you find completeness here.  May you let your light shine on; recharged.

                                                                 Haze.  Photo by Jess.

What's Happening

I am trying new 'medicine' and (what feels to me) a lot of it.  Different medicine that we do not know how it interacts with each other.  We do not know the certain amounts of each to take; we do not know the consistency or a tried schedule to take it and/or when.

I love the freedom of following how I feel and administering said medicine as I deem necessary.  I also know the feeling of being overwhelmed because I do not know how to do this and there are no guidelines that have been documented.  Trust of self is a beautiful gift here that is showing itself for me to learn (again).

Legal marijuana and (now being more openly condemned) opiates have not had many open studies or documented results of the use of these things together.

I've been doing this on and off for a little over a week and I've been very uptight, confused, unsure, overwhelmed along with a bit of hopefulness.  I can easily connect to these same feelings now.  And, yet, something today told me to just trust my own inner knowing, my informed answers and my own 'guesstimates' as to accomplish my goal.

My goal is to feel the best that I can feel.  To be as peaceful as I can be.  To thrive to my greatest ability and capacity.  To live the truest of me.

Can drugs deter my true inner knowing capability...  Very possible, as it is a mind altering regimen that I am taking on.

Can drugs help me to feel the most comfortable I can within myself... Maybe.

Can drugs hurt me... Yes.   Can drugs help me... Yes.

As I open up to be my own and true best friend, I let go of the mean and hurtful thoughts and things I tell myself in regards to hoping to have more ease because of narcotic drugs.

I am deeply working through my layers of what feels like my multiple onions.  I am open to learn.  I am open to receive good and easy answers.  I am open to change with the help of knowing how.  I am open to being free.  I am open to living from my heart.  I am open to living the truth of myself.  I am open to show/live on the outside what I feel on the inside.

I am open to the best me possible.

May you be your own best friend.  May you be open to being and living the best you possible.  

May you let 'happy' happen even in situations that can be true and real reasons for unhappiness.

We are happy because we choose happy.  We are happy because we work at looking at the brighter side of things.  We are happy because that is who we are and who we want to be.

I choose happy.

I certainly do not know everything.  I certainly don't have all the answers.  I certainly am not liking some of my only options.  I certainly can still connect to happy.

'Happy' is always within our reach.  Sometimes, we need to use different meanings of the word happiness to think of ourselves as happy.

And, there is always something to be grateful for.

Live from gratitude.  Connect to your happy.  Be the You that You want to be.

May you meet yourself where you are at and allow contentment of believing in your own strength be 'in your pocket' and easily and readily available to you; as often and as much as possible.

We humans have tremendous strength.

May you be gentle and let love carry this strength and know that it is present for your use whenever you choose to breathe and tap in.

Tap into the magic of You.

Change

Change is ever flowing in nature.  Change is ever present in life.

I have been feeling more full lately.  My belly fills up quicker and I am eating less.  I am extremely quiet and things are processing within me that I am uncertain of.

I keep hearing myself tell myself that I am healing.  I have been telling myself this for 30 years.  It has not happened yet.

I do my best to embrace the stillness, the quiet, the rumbling storm within.  It feels like electrical currents are happening throughout my body and they do not know where to land.

The tinnitus in my ears is loud.  The buzzing in my head is constant.  The tightness of my skin calls for attention.  My breathing and my lungs are working a bit harder than usual.

I haven't done regular pilates sessions in two weeks.  I often do a little movement wherever I am and I have not felt like doing so.

I really am in a quiet, still place from within.  I am not choosing it.  It is choosing me. And, yet, it has been my underlying request to the universe for a long time - to know peace; to stay in peace.

I could easily find the word 'loser' to use on myself.  And, yet I love.  I choose love.  It just feels so much better to me than berating.

May you choose what feels better to you.  May you meet yourself where you are at.

Everything is temporary.  Change is always happening.

Be like nature and let change flow through.

Life

I still sit in stillness.  My mind is quiet.  My heart is beating.  My breath breathes.

We can spend time in foreign lands.  We can spend time on the web.  We can spend time thinking about this or that.  We can get immersed in a project or goal.  We can have tunnel vision.  We can experience the depth and horizon of all that is.

Life comes into us or is it us that comes into life.

We speak and spend time with these or those persons.  We feel and experience what comes from within.  We feel and experience what comes from within As it meets what is without.

Never say never because we can often find ourselves there.

As you open up to the day; as you bring into the day what you focus on; as you meet yourself where you are at, you are living.

Right here, right now, in this breath you breathe.  We breathe life.

Life is experienced as we see it, believe it to be and what we bring to it.

If you want to know peace, be it.

If you want to share love, extend it.

If you want to share joy, tap into it.

Do you fight what is...   Do you focus on what you think you'd rather have than the positive that you do have...   Do you spend life as you would like to...  Do you spend life in awareness...   Do you numb yourself so as not to be aware...

Our life is ours to live.  Here.  Now.  Feel kindness walk with you.  Flow into what brings you contentment.  Let life flow through the truth of your experience from a loving and open heart.

With each breath, we experience life.

Experience it from the truth of what is through the truth of who you are from the most easiest and allowing place inside of you.  This creates the stepping stones into your best path forward.

May you live in and walk on as you create your best path forward.  This may be the pathway home to our true essence.  In our true essence we live our greatest of self.

May you live your greatest of self.

Feels like A Long Time

It feels like a long time since I have sat down to write.  Every time I walk by the computer, nothing comes to mind.  No words, phrases or sentences are being created and/or feeling the need to be written and/or heard.

Maybe I don't want to know what is going on inside of myself.  Maybe I don't want to share the same.  Maybe this is peace and manifestation of stillness.

Maybe I don't need a 'why', 'how, 'what', 'cause' or 'label'.

Maybe no words are necessary.

I have this desire to just be love.  To just share love.  To just offer love.

I am honored, grateful and know joy in just being love.

I share, offer, and send love...  from my heart to yours.

May you just be love or whatever it is that is most valuable to you just now.

Be that.  Be the You that you want to be.

Be it, share it, offer it, send it and live it...   As it brings you true 'peace', may it bring the same to our world...

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