Sunshine

The sun is always shining somewhere.  I like this thought.  How nice that we all share the sunshine.   We take turns.  Maybe not by choice, but it happens.  And it works.

The world gets everything it needs for nourishment, growth, sustainability, and light which can equal love to me.

The world I want to live in with this kind of life for all.  

The song "You are My Sunshine" comes to mind.  

Perhaps, as we reflect that we are each other's sunshine or certainly can be, our world will be the world of peace, joy, fun, excitement, harmony and love that we as humans thrive and live our 'best of' throughout.

Are you your own sunshine?  Do you want to be?  Can you be?  

I hope you are being what is the most becoming to You; through nourishing, growing, sustaining and lighting up your own love.    

May you be and share your 'sunshine'.  

Storm

We all experience ‘storms’.  Some bring rain.  Some bring winds.  Some bring hail.  Some bring rainbows.   Some bring it all and more.   

Yesterday I stood in a storm and opened my heart and opened my arms wide and strong.  I let the rain hit me and the wind blow around me.  I realized the power and empowerment of flowing with it.  I opened to the experience of it as it was and as I was.   I knew I was safe in the moment and trusted myself to be ok open, flowing and bending with the elements.   

May you know that you are safe in this moment and may you trust yourself to be ok as you stay open, flowing and bending with the elements that come to/through you and your life.  

When it feels like a struggle, it is most likely that you may be thinking, feeling, telling yourself that you would rather Not be experiencing the moment, situation, experience and/or relationship as you are.  You, most likely, want things/life to be different than it is.  This is where most, if not all, struggle derives from.  

When we accept 'what is' present in the moment, the struggle can dissipate and even stop.   You do not have to like it.  Just be totally open to the truth as you experience it and know it.  Let your own truth through love and kindness lead you.  Be the calm in the storm.  

May you stop the struggle and accept 'what is' through your truth of life as it is for You and who, what, where and how You are.   

Live in your truth of the storm and ride it through as best You can; as often and much as possible.

I wish You your flow-through and flexibility of creating peace and ease through your true and whole being and humanness.

Perhaps, you are the storm naturally occurring through love and openness.  

Life U

Life.

Do not fret.  None of us are in control.  None of us know fully what is going on.  None of us are getting out of here alive.  Not one of us has everything mapped out going forward.  Perhaps, many of us have no clue what we are doing from time to time in this 'interesting' world in which we are living.  

Oh my.   Life is full and loud just now.  Feels nonsensical in many ways and walking through life in peace and assuredness, just maybe, is the lesson most prevalent now.

Life is an inside job.  No one lives and experiences it like You.  No one lives and experiences it like me.

And, we all live and experience it until we take our last breath.

Right here, right now, you are living and experiencing your life your way.  Yes, you are in charge of your reaction to all your life living and experiences. 

This may be good news.  This may be bad news.  This just may be just what it is and we do not have to label it.  We can be aware of it and 'play' with different reactions.  

It is best when we own our awesomeness, our beauty, our greatness and we allow ourselves to experience experiences we love.

If you do not know what You love, no one knows.  

May you get to knowing what You love and live in it, through it, about it and on it.

Open yourself up to what You love.  Open yourself up to your own awesome, beauty and greatness.

Try it.  You will love it and you will be the version of You that you were born to be/live.

This I wish, hope, pray and see for You.

Get at it.  Get on it.  You.

Scleroderma Awareness

June is Scleroderma Awareness month.  All throughout my Facebook newsfeed, I am seeing information, stories and experiences regarding scleroderma.

Scleroderma means 'scarring of the skin'.  Some refer to the bible where it reads about people turning to stone.  Scleroderma is about producing too much collagen and it makes connective tissue hard and unyielding.  It is a dis-ease of the autoimmune system.

I have had it since I was 17.  I am in my 45th year of it.  I have learned to not claim it as 'my' dis-ease but a dis-ease and it is a part of my every day life.

I don't consider it fun ever.  I do know that it has brought me to my knees and into the depth of life, living, being human and an awareness that, most likely, never would have been possible if not for this dis-ease. It has opened me to the core of my being; again and again and again.  

It started off as 'Raynauds' which is purple and/or white fingers - numb and painful because of the lack of blood circulation due to cold and/or stress.  My fingers are tight, stiff and my nails and my fingertips have deteriorated because of the lack of a healthy blood flow to them.

Ulcers pop up on fingers and elsewhere for some and they are so very painful and it takes a very long time to go away.  OUCH.  

To pick up change, to put on make up, to get dressed, to empty the dishwasher, to grasp, to turn things on or off can be a real challenge.  One day I had lunch with another person with scleroderma and when we went to open the new ketchup bottle we had to laugh as it was not going to happen through either one of us.  To take a shower, I have to talk myself into it as the cold I feel afterwards takes tremendous energy from me.

I find no fun or ease in writing about this.  I feel shame because of my inability in doing simple things.  I feel frustration as it takes me much longer to do everyday 'normal' things that can often be taken for granted.

It attacks the appearance of my face as my skin on my face is so tight.  It feels like I have 'spanx' on all over my body.  It feels like my skin is too small for my muscular skeletal body.

It can affect every organ.  It can affect and tighten the throat where I know some that have had to get their throats stretched just to be able to eat.  It can and does kill.

I believe because of my exercising and my love and constant search for peace within, I am one of the lucky ones.  I often remind myself this; especially the times when I am Not feeling so lucky.

When I was first diagnosed (which took five years) most doctors did not know of scleroderma.  I have taught and shared it with many professionals.  Now, most doctors have heard of it.  Many do not have any patients of their own with it.  Even the scleroderma experts do not have great knowledge of changing and definitely not of healing it.  I find it is usually a trial and error dance between medicine and my own wisdom.

Because there is no known cure, I have for several decades now, told myself it is an 'inside job' to do the best I can to listen, respond, nurture, learn, experience and love myself through it.

What may help one scleroderma patient does not help another.  Each system and illness experienced is unique for each person.

More women than men have it by a large percentage.

May you let the uniqueness of You and your experiences walk through the truth and innate wisdom that is etched inside of You.  For illness, dis-ease, life, living and You being You.

Solstice

Happy Solstice. !!  The solstice is when the sun is at it's northernmost point (summer solstice) and it's southernmost point (winter solstice).  The summer solstice can remind us about taking care of ourselves in the mindset of growing and evolving.  The winter solstice can remind us to rest and reflect on our lives and from within ourselves.

Follow the light of the sun, the moon, the stars.  Flow with the brightness of your heart.  Be true with the dynamics of what is.   You uniquely engaged through the awareness of everything that is through everything that You are is beautiful.   

May you respond, through your own loving truth, in the light of what you are experiencing.   

I wish You renewal and growth.  I wish You rest and reflection.  I wish You your truth through love; as much and as often as possible.

Breath is Life and More

Breath = Life; and so much more

Enjoy the breath in and throughout your journey(s).   

Breathe into yourself   Breathe positively and be fully You in every situation, relationship, experience, moment.

To be fully engaged through the wholeness of You is to experience life and living your life with the best intention, awareness and completion.  

You.  

Being You is all you best need do as often, true and open as possible.   Your amazingness comes from inside of You; through your breath.  

May we all know we were/are born to walk with each other and uplift the loving, true uniqueness inside of each of us.   

As we breathe - and know that we are - life opens up wholly and truthfully.   Glory happens.  Growth happens.   

You and each breath you take [truly] are uniquely amazing.  

Through our breathing awareness, wisdom, peace, relaxation, and wholeness of our humanness rises.  Growth, questions, answers, creativity, and excitement leads the way home to our truest and highest version of our self.  

When I believe this, I’m subconsciously inviting the universe to create what I tell myself is meant for me to create my beliefs to become and turn into my reality.  

The “Be careful what you wish for.” quote comes to mind.   

If I believe strong enough and wish often, the universe responds.

Own what you are choosing to believe.  Pick the ‘best of’ your beliefs that ignite the You that You are and want to become..  and grow from and through it again and again and again.   

Your breath, your thoughts, your being, You - everything you do, think, say, feel, experience and are matter...

Unleash and Emblazon

Unleash your uniqueness.  Emblazon it with love.

This is all you need do to live your fullness of life by just being You/U.  Feel what You feel.  Speak your truth.  Know your desires.  Move in your most enjoyable way.  Live the life inside of You that is waiting/churning to come forth.  The time has come; it is here.  

With all the 'interesting' things going on in our world that are non-sensical, disruptive, unsettling and trying, we are being asked, often forced, to do life differently.  We are being led inside of ourselves to bring what is in there out.  To no longer settle or let it be settled within.

I know I want to often erupt with what feels awesome and encouraging to me to get on with my whole bad self.  The power of being Me.

May you erupt and/or open to what feels awesome and encouraging to you to get on with your whole bad self.  The power of being You.

Letting go of what feels unwanted.  Adding to what feels most real as our whole beingness shakes open.

There is so much beauty and magic in and of You.

Trust yourself, your instinct, your vibe, your truth, your voice, your will, your way, your colors.  Emblazon everything You with your love.  

Add Something New

May you add something into (or let go of something from) your every day life that you know will give you more of what gives You enjoyment.

Whether it be new or old, adding or letting go, ‘practice’ what is joyful to You.  Open to it.  Be aware of it.  

Rise up into what is best for You in each moment.  What lifts you up into the place that you feel most You. 

Make it a habit.   Let it become second nature.  

The happier and fulfilled You are the more of the same there is to share.

Stay in the promise of what makes you happy and let your light shine.

Let You shine.  Let happy shine.  Let this light that we create by doing so spread wherever it is needed.  

The promise of a new day with many new ways.   May you make a (new) promise to yourself and create it and allow for it.

May we grow into the masterpiece of mastering peace.   

Transforming what is ‘ugh’ to ‘yolo’. !!   Ha!

Place Your Heart

Wherever we place our heart, life and living beautifully is most possible.  When we put our hearts into something, we are all in; our complete self.  

Where we lay our heart matters.  Your heart and love matters.  My heart and love matters.  Our hearts and love matter.  

Love reflects.  Love breaks open.   Love empowers.  Love lifts.  Love engages.  Love speaks best through the way we live.  Love is the loudest feeling that comes out of truth, trust and silence.  

May we let our own love flow through our hearts both ways.  In towards our self.  Out into life situations, experiences and desires.  Within and thru every relationship.  

It is our own love that lets us sleep at night.   It is our own trust in the process of life (allowing our own love and trusting in our self to handle any and every situation that shows up in our life) that will dissolve and take down any closed doors and windows as we realize it is our connection to our own innate wisdom that lets our love run free.   

Love feels best in me.  As I let myself love knowing that my own love ignites the best and truest of who I am and who I want to be, my own love carries me through anything and everything I need/want to carry on with.  

Wherever I place my heart, I show up completely me and there is nothing else that empowers, mystifies and creates magic in the whole experience of being my truest and best self.  

May you trust that wherever you place your heart and love, it empowers, encourages, mystifies and creates the best ways forward; all doors and windows wide open to have complete experiences.   

Our open hearts light up the world in the most brilliant, glowing and radiant ways. 

This stand alone light bulb heart was a gift to me from a beautiful, 'lit' couple.  I am so honored and happy to have received it.  Thank You.

Wisdom in the Breath

There is one thing always for sure .. Breath.  Breathing.

To experience the breath, your breath, can support in you everything You.

We all breathe.  Often, we may take it for granted.  Plenty of us do not.  Some cannot.   Yet, if we are here alive, air is going in and out of our lungs.   

O2 in.  CO2 out.  Trees give off oxygen that we breathe in.  We give off carbon dioxide that trees use to sustain.  Ahhh.  Nature.   

I would like to offer to consciously become aware of your breath.   Play with it from time to time.  Watch it.  Take deep slow long breaths.  Take quick fast shallow breaths.  Blow out while pushing your stomach in through a continuous rhythm.  Thank your breath.  Be one with your breath.  

Notice the air may be cooler breathing in.  The air may be warmer breathing out.   

Being aware of one’s breath and allowing gratitude and peace within is a gift to the gift of breathing freely and easily.  Awareness of our breath may better support our life.

In our awareness and gratitude of our breath there is a grace and wisdom that can be connected to. Being connected to the awareness of each breath can connect us to the innate knowledge that presents itself through our breath awareness.  In the silence of mentally focusing on and following our breath, we open up to what is possible for our life.

Breath and breathing.   This is magic too.  We need not participate for it to occur.  That is the function we were born with to live and to be alive.  

Have you opened to the wisdom that comes with acknowledging your breath.   

Experiment.   Experience.   Be.    

Easy evolving and growing You.   

Honest and true breath.  

The rite of passage always includes the breath.   Deep healing includes the breath.   Easy flow includes the breath. 

Breathe and may you know that You are.   

Breath and You.  It can connect you to everything and anything that is.   

You and breathing.

May you experience the magic that is within your breath and all the wisdom of you breathing You.  

Believe

How many things that you are doing today that you have also done yesterday...  

May you ask yourself what are the things you are doing today that you did yesterday.  Are they happy or are they 'musts' or are they just because that's how you do things...

We all do things because we believe our life is/feels better because of doing them.  And, maybe, if you don't feel like doing one thing today that you did yesterday - change it up.  Don't do it.

See how it makes you feel.  Can you let it feel like a gift to yourself...

It was once suggested to me that if I just change one thing on purpose, it can open up new things and ways to enter into who we are and what we are experiencing.  Better.

Put your pants on with the opposite leg that you always start first with.   Brush your teeth with your less dominant hand.  Let your body move in ways that surprise you.  Eat something that your body is truly craving and enjoy it.  Make sounds that want to be made by you.  Change up one small thing.  Things that you just let happen because you are aware and you want to.  

Whatever comes up and rings true to You.  Follow it.  Allow it.  Let feeling good and kind to yourself play.  Let the child in you show up.  Let your own love and feel good guide you.

May you believe.  Believe in yourself.  Believe in Your dreams.  Believe in you being here doing what You are here to do.   

Be and live.  Live and be.  Let love.  

I wish for you to feel your happy. !! 

Life Coaching Story

A very special woman - brilliant woman - that I am very lucky to go to for life coaching told me today that Mercury Retrograde (when Mercury is in a place (slows down and creates an optical illusion) in the solar system that challenges us and messes with the earth's energies, and our own) is over; for now.  

She stated that it was time to "either feel the pause or the glide".  That sounded pretty real to me.  My response was that I believe I am in the glide of the pause.  

I said this feeling that I know I am gliding and it feels like I will be gliding for a bit yet.  I am enjoying this glide.  I'm a different me.  I am in a pretty great place of acceptance of myself.

I don't feel like I have too much to offer or to say.  Words and/or thoughts are not readily available when I feel myself open to them.  I usually and most often sit down to type and there is a flux of words and sentences that want to fly through my fingertips from this open space.

Just now, there is a hesitancy of connecting as I was connecting - in all social platforms - through any connection that arises.  It feels like I'm being asked/told/requested/needing to save this energy for myself.  To place it in my own vault and build it up.

Hence, the gliding pause.  I have felt this way for a while.  

May you trust what you are feeling/wanting/needing (or being asked/forced to) and gently give it to yourself believing that your life as it is right now is exactly how it is supposed to be.  You matter in all stages, chapters, incidences and experiences that come from within you.  Your innate knowing knows.  

May you listen and react; trust in your truest of truths.  

May you trust the process of life [BIG] just now.

You know best for You.  Believe it.  Allow it.  Live like it.  Own it.  Love on it.  

To have someone support me living genuinely in my truth.. Well, there's nothing like it and I feel so grateful each time I connect with her.  One's best life truly is about believing, allowing, living, owning and loving on/in yourself.  You knowing what is best for You.  

That's what I'm talking about!

Peace.  Go into You.

Rain

Rain can have so many meanings and feelings attached to it.  You can let 'rain' be whatever you wish it to create in you.

We are currently getting many notifications of a 'tropical storm warning' as it is raining, gray and windy outside of my window.

I see droplets of rain on the windowpane.  I hear the drops of rain going from a loud orchestration to a soft murmur.  

For the next two days, rain may be here to visit.

I remember going out in the rain and getting wet and jumping in my pool with drenched clothes.   I remember small flooding in a deadend street by my childhood home that would happen often and us kids would swim in it splashing with laughter and fun.

Rain cleanses the land; feeds the land.  Rain can be a nuisance while driving.  I used to drive 80 miles one way to work and it seemed for a couple of months every Monday morning in a row it would rain.  The song 'Rainy Days and Mondays' was in my thoughts often then.  It helped me to knew that traffic would be heavier and it would take me longer to make the trip.

The sound of rain can lull me to sleep.  The smell of rain can be pleasant.  

When it rains sideways and I have to be out in it, it can be off-putting.

Rain can be a lot of things.

Rain sounds like reign and rein with very different meanings.

Dancing in the rain can be a lot of fun.

Rain nourishes our land and makes the grass, flowers and vegetation grow.  Add sunshine and Boom.

Rain can slow us down and/or invite rituals.

Sometimes, we can experience rainbows during the rain.

The quote "Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass but learning to dance in the rain" is one of my favorites.

May you be aware of the downpours in your life.  Are you letting them pick you up or put you down.  Maybe, they don’t always have to affect us either way.  Are you open to learning and growing from them…  

May you let the whole of You agree on the best way to experience them.   

Whatever makes you the most You, may this be the experience you create for yourself...  the very best you can do.  Be oh so true to You.

Take the reins and let your own kindness reign through You; in whatever shape it shows up.  Be aware.  Acknowledge it.  Experience it.  Question it.  

You choose.    Your choice.  Your life.  YOU.

‘Awe-tastic’

The pictures below depict the colorful, enchanting sky during one evening sunset.  To me they are magical.  It was so magical to witness and experience.  

 - Amazing.  Promising.  Beautiful.  Lovely.  Wow. Fabulous. Awesome. Fantastic.  Fun. - 

‘Awetastic’ comes to mind.  Perhaps, this is a good word to take into the 'new world' with us.

May you and your life be heading forward into and with ‘Awetastic’.   

It is possible. It is time now.  It is everything wonderful you were born to be and to live now.   

The world is ripe and open… 

 

May you and your awe-tastic self step into it.  

Younique You is needed.   

I hope you enjoy the pictures as much as I enjoy sharing them.   Prayers and Namaste.   

May we let the will of each one of us to be the way.   The way to peace and harmony inside of ourselves to create peace and harmony outside of ourselves; individually, together.   

May you let your love be open, colorful and flowing in creativity and understanding.   Perhaps, this is the growth that our world begs for.   

Your way.  My way.  Our way.   A loving, beautiful way united in our differences.  My wish is for our destiny to be this magical ensemble 'awetastically'. 

I guess one could also call it 'fansome'; 'fansomely'.  Ha!  

One of a Kind Space

May you let your magic lead you today. Walk in it. Bask in it. Relax into You.  'Just 9Be U'.  "Grow Yourself Complete"

Your connection to You is one of the most, if not the most, meaningful and important connections to be aware of and connect through love and kindness.  

My hope that as you are true to You, you feel the freedom to live life in your own magic.  Your own way.

You are magical.  We were all born with the gift of magic.    

Today, these times, are loud, everchanging; an explosion of consciousness and awareness. Perhaps, like never before. 

May you walk through what is towards what will be...  Glorious You.   

A beautiful, joyous, challenging and freeing explosion of everything you are Not is happening for many just now.  What remains is everything God created in You to live in peace, joy, abundance and your immense Youness.   

Hang loose.  Magic On.  Breakaway.  Trust.  Be true.  Ignition Go.

The empowered You.  The only one that can allow or stop how you perceive and react to your life is You.  May you open to your own empowered self.  

I believe in You.  I believe in Us.