Da Mind

"My life has been filled with terrible misfortune, most of which never happened."  Michel de Montaigne

Ok then..  How true is this for You?

We do, as humans, think many things that can/may happen and we don't always go to the best and brightest options.  We may often find ourselves thinking the worst case scenarios instead.  

How about we stop doing this... to the best of our ability.

When I catch myself doing this, I want to immediately be aware and ixnay that as an option.  I want to turn it around and think of the best case scenario.

Or I can ixnay the worst case thoughts and just be here now in this moment where my truth and my life reside in real time and the real experience of what is happening.

I can even look at my 'just now' time and experience and if I don't like the way I am feeling, I can change my thought on this.

It truly is up to us as we are always and the only common denominator in everything we think, feel, experience and consider.

May you be so extra gentle and kind to yourself that any hurtful thought gets ixnayed.

May you strike out any hurtful thoughts and replace them with loving thoughts.  Practice.  Practice.  Practice.  Until it becomes more and more just what You do.  Loving yourself and your life through a kind mind filled with loving, supportive thoughts.  

You are worth it.  

As we uplift our experiences and ways of being, we uplift the world.  

World happiness on.. On and On.  On and On.  

May we light up our hearts and share in joy.  Time to enjoy the life that is available to us through our love; individually and together.  

May it be so.  It is so.  Amen.  Ameen.  Aum.  Hum.  Amin.  Om.   'There is divine presence in all creation.'  

Unknown

 I, in this moment, have no idea what will be the outcome and/or subject of this post.  I have time just now to be in here with the computer and I am open to see what comes of this.

Ha. 

My fingers sit on the keyboard waiting to see where they will go and how they will fly.

I take a deep breath and I feel good to allow myself the freedom of emptiness and breath.  There is not a lot calling me or begging for my attention.  My thoughts are here with my body and there is a peace within myself and about myself because of it.

No pressure.  No stress.  And, then the thought -- uh oh, what if nothing comes..   I want to be helpful.  I want to be encouraging.  I want to be able to offer something positive for You to enable yourself to feel uplifted in whatever capacity feels best to You.

I notice the chair underneath me.  I notice my feet on the floor.  I intentionally relax my shoulders and let my body feel heavy and supported.  I imagine myself being rooted into the center of the earth.  I imagine the openness of the sky endless and kind.  

I am all that there is.  I am a part of the Universe.  I was placed right here, right now in this way and that is awesome to me.  I trust it.  I trust myself.  I trust the process.  It excites me if I let it.  It is enough if I allow it to be.  I am enough if I believe it.  In truth, we are all enough whether we believe it or not.  

Our purpose is doing exactly what we are doing just now or we wouldn't be doing it.  Is it something you enjoy...  Is it something that feels real to being You...  

May you be in this moment as You are open to co-creating each future moment from this place that You are just now.

Own your fullness.  Own your truth.  Fill yourself up with your love.  Allow your breath and the most exciting idea that sits loudest within You just now to breathe and grow.  

Whatever you can dream, you can create.  Believe and get to it.  It starts in your brain, heart and from your spirit, and you are doing just this now.  Exactly at the right time, in the right moment, the right thing will become so for You.

How cool You are...  Bow to yourself.  Honor life.  Let grow what is yet inside of You to become.  You are this powerful.

You are not powerful enough to do it for anyone else.  You are powerful enough to do it for You.  And in doing so for You, You uplift the possibilities for all.

Again, very very cool and extremely badass.  

May you own your cool and your badassery.

The Ache

The 'ache'.  

We all know it.  We all have experienced it.  The human feeling of achiness.

Whether it be a muscle or a joint.  Whether it be a loss or an unwanted change.  Whether it be a headache or a toothache.  Whether it be emotional and/or physical.  The ache can be so strong that it must be paid attention to.

May you breathe into any ache that may be asking for your attention.  

I have learned that (often) the more I ignore it, the louder it gets.  The ache keeps finding ways to get our attention until, at last, we give it the attention and/or love that it is calling for.

When I own my 'ache' fully, breathe into it and allow the moment, I can see through the ache to the possibilities available to me through the ache.  I can see and feel the good in my life when I look for it.  I can honor the ache.  I can choose to honor myself.  I can choose to honor life.  I can be so in awe in the makings and dealings of my own humanness. 

May you honor the ache, honor yourself, honor life and look for the awe, wonder and good things that are within You and going on around you through and from the ache.

Often, we right away just want to get rid of it.  We often and mostly just want to do whatever it takes to get rid of the ache.

What if we open to the ache and participate with honor and see, feel, be, know and love through the ache...  See where the truth of it and ourselves and our lives is at.  Living in the whole truth in each moment as they come just may be our very best pathway forward.  

If you have an ache just now (or several aches), may you honor it/them and You.

Your life.  Your truth.  Your ownership.  Your love.  Your feelings.  Your experiences.  YOU.  

May you tap into everything You and let your unique love, honor and sacredness live in and on.  

Picture

I felt the desire to use the below picture today.  It is a Royal Poinciani tree.  Nicknamed a 'Fire' or 'Flame' tree.  I come here speaking through what it connects me to.

Every living thing has seasons.  Wildlife.  Forests.  Oceans.  Land.  Temperatures.  Sun.  Moon.  Places.  Animals.  People.

We all have our seasons.  

I grew to learn that my favorite season was summer.  Everything is in bloom.  The temperatures are warm or higher.  Color abounds.  Life abounds.  Joy has mostly been in the season of summer for me for many, many decades.  I was a different person in the summer than I was in the winter.  The scleroderma also abated much in the summer for me.

Winter was dreary and 'dead'.  A good friend once offered for me to think of it as asleep instead of dead.  I liked that.  Still dreary and cold to me.  The snow was pretty.  Losing all color around me except for the red berries on the holly tree outside my kitchen window could be depressing to me.  I now believe that this can be a great time to connect to the more quiet and regenerating parts of this season.  

Spring was when everything started to come to life including me.  Daffodils and tulips poked up out of the dirt.  The grass turned green.  Animals had their babies.  The feeling of 'spring is in the air' was oh so true for me.

Fall was when the leaves would turn the most beautiful colors yet die and fall to the ground.  Squirrels would gather nuts for the winter season.  Deer would come out of the forest more and more.  I often thought of it as a time of 'closing' my backyard.  

It feels to me that, just now, many seasons are upon us.  Blooming and creating anew.  Freezing and letting go.

I feel that I am growing into what is next and awesome for me to grow into.  I know I am letting go of things that hurt me to hold onto.  Great shifts and changes are happening.  

I am blooming, shedding, asleep and awakening.  

What a crazy and interesting time.

What I do know best is that my truth is what is shouting to live out loud from my place of loving.  Love feels so much better than any other possibility for me.

I heard myself saying this morning that I claim myself to be sacred.

My life is sacred.  My knowledge is sacred.  My love is sacred.  My being is sacred.  My body is sacred.  I claim my sacredness.

You are sacred.  Your truth is sacred.  Your life is sacred.  Your heart and knowledge are sacred.  

May you let your love come up and walk with You in your sacredness.

Whatever you are feeling is true for You.  It and You matter.  The process of your life is sacred.

May you own  your sacredness and let it shine, let it shine, let it shine.  Shine inward.  Shine outward.  You are meant to shine through the life that is You(rs).

Sacred - Blessed and Cherished; Pure.

Breathe

May you take mindful moments to breathe..

I'd like to offer to relax your shoulders.   Breathe deep into your belly.  Feel the seat or the floor underneath you completely supporting you.  Relax and let go.  Notice the cool air as you breathe in. Notice the warmer air as you breathe out.  Perhaps, take a few deep breaths and relax more with each out breath.  

Think of something that makes You smile.

May you relax and smile.  Ahhhh.

I hope You feel good in this moment.

Namaste.

Wishing You many feel-good moments.

Core Stability

Perhaps, we are being asked to stabilize within our own life.  Strengthen our core roots.  Understand the strength and flexibility, balance and adaptability by truly being who we are.  Being vulnerable in our YOUness/MEness is, just maybe, the most beautiful, important, life enhancing thing that we can do.

When we know what we want and like and allow ourselves to go for it - heaven.

When we strengthen our actual physical core, strength, balance and stability happen.

Our brains can help us to do this.  Our hearts can help us to do this.  Our soul can show us how to do this.  

Being a strong, stabilized, yet gently powerful human is a rush.  The things we truly can accomplish are far bigger and brighter than we can even imagine.

Starting with our imagining who we want to be - feel it, learn about it, open to it and allow it - Oh yes YOU can.  We were born with everything we need for our lifetime. 

Strengthen your core of who you are and within your physical body and our brains release happy, feel good, help us out hormones.  Beyond cool.

May you be beyond cool.

I believe in You.  Trust yourself.  Work yourself.  Love yourself.  Be yourself.  Grow yourself.

May you always know that You being You [through your own loving truth] is the best thing and the most important gift You can be/give.

May you get to it.

All my love.

Jump In

We are divided in many of our own lives and in our world itself.  We may have one leg in the past and what we have known and one leg in the present ready to jump into a new way; new future way of living as One.

As we uplift ourselves and jump into our truth through our open hearts and minds, we open up to the glory that awaits and is present to live forward with.

What once worked may no longer work.  What once was easy peasy has, maybe, become a feeling of frenzy and crazy. 

My daily encounters are not what they used to be.  There is a depth about some more easily.  There may be an uncommon connection that sizzles and either fizzles or I can find new meaning and direction in.

The actions that many of us are doing and experiencing are different and uplifting or downturning or both.

May you believe that what you are experiencing is there to lead you into your best path forward.

Let us get out of heads more and into our hearts more.  What makes your heart happy...  Does getting out of your head bring a feeling that you rise up and connect to your soul... Can you feel the source of You... 

Who are you without all the labels...  Who are you without a constant busyness...  Who are you when all you do for a moment is breathe...  Just breathe.  Who are you without all your activities...

May you know who you are and be the most true and joy-filled version of You.

As we create harmony within our own lives, perhaps, all we can share is harmony.

Who are you without judging anything or anyone including yourself...   Who are you as you let life flow through you and walk in your truth, gather your trust and let the inside of you live on the outside as well...

May we gather the glory of life as its taking us, supporting us and showing us different.  

Walking Forward

Fear is present these days.  Fear is present always if we 'choose' to tap into it.  There is always possibility of fear.  [To me, this also means there is always possibility of peace too.]

With our ever evolving, deeply changing world, the learning curve can be huge. 

We are, perhaps, being taught things in and about life that we may feel like we did not sign up for.  And, if I did, what was I thinking..

Life also feels about relearning to me.  To live, be and do life in a different way than what I always have.

Why... because as life and people change -- and it all does, changing with same is an option to live, grow and become better, easier, more open with our experience(s) going forward.

To do the same thing or expect the same outcome in different scenarios and ways is not adaption and flow.  

We can choose adaption and flow or we can fight, be stuck and, perhaps, even live in anger and/or fear instead of peace.

I seem to really enjoy peaceful, fun joy most.   Ha.

May you breathe into yourself and experience what is there.  Let your truth and best way rise up.

Good news/Bad news:

You are the only one that can choose the experience of each situation that arises; on and on and on.

May you choose what You enjoy most.

Breathe and Be.  Open to Love.

Dust

"We are all fragments of nature.  We all live in our incomplete wholeness.   May you know your awesome through just being who you are.   Let your love present."   

This is a post that I posted on my social media sites.  I am amazed by this Sahara Desert dust from Africa that is in our skies here in South Florida, USA.  Just amazed.

What is over there can travel over here and, conclusively, vice versa.

Our world is so much smaller than I ever realized or thought.  It used to feel that what was happening over there would never come here.  And what was happening here, I just knew it to be so.

I never really thought of the universal impact growing up.  A lot of times, it was me and my surroundings that was the 'universe' I was interested in regarding the impact that was happening in and around me.  I did always realize the impact of life on people that I was near whether it was a person I knew or a stranger; but, I could feel their reaction going through them.

I now know that what is happening over there can definitely affect (and does) what is happening over here.. and vice versa.

When we send out love to one person, it uplifts love in the universe.  Doing a kind act can be carried forward through many of us.  Putting good vibes and/or happiness out even with a smile can be so contagious.  

May we spread 'like', kindness and love and let it be the most contagious thing that has ever been witnessed.

Let's dust ourselves off, stand strong in our truth and share care, positivity and that oh so good feeling of being seen and knowing that we matter.  There is no wrong way when we are being open, kind and true. 

If you are here alive now, someone sees You and the universe is telling You that you matter now exactly as You are.

May you believe that.  Feel it.  Be it.  Share it.  Live like it.  

May you let your love grow from inside of you out.  Your purpose is being true to everything you feel and are, through that greatest love possible.

Nothing is more inspirative or persuasive.  

Wholeness

We are all living in our truth.  Each and every one of us.  Whether we live it out loud or we live it in silence or buried, we are still truly living in our truth.

I know that if I don't speak about certain things, they can be ignored outside of the realm of being me. My truth is never far away, however.  I had myself convinced for quite a long time that for the most 'scary' ones, if I speak it out loud, it will make it true.  No.  My truth is my truth whether I speak it out loud, only think about it, ignore it or let it weigh me down hoping something will happen and my hard truth will transform all by itself.

This is not usually the case.

We all love our easy, fun and happy truth.  It is so easy to live in and live it out loud.

Our hard truth is not so easy, fun or happy.  It is hard to live in and live it out loud.

Whether we choose to face it head on or some other way or not at all... our truth remains our truth.

Oh brother, sister, mother, father, son, daughter.  Oh my.

This can be deep and serious.  This can be freeing and life enhancing.

May you open to your truth.  May you connect to your truth.  May you feel your truth.  May you process your truth.. and walk on.  

Shine bright.  Reach deep.  Uncover.  Breathe.  Be.  Share.  

Your truth will open doors that are supposed to open for You.  Do not hide.  Do not fear.  Or let the fear  present if it is there and rendezvous with your truth anyway.

You are beautiful.  Your truth makes you You.  Your truth allows, connects and draws the best of You forward.

Trust what you know to be your truth.  See/Feel how it plays out.  Walk forward in your total reality of what life is like being You.

YOU are where your depth of your heart, soul, mind and spirit are One.

May you be one with your wholeness.  

Suffering/Pain

I do not feel how my mind is telling me I want to feel.  I have a tightness within myself; a discomfort throughout myself.   A constant, steady ache visiting me.  Scleroderma is,  perhaps, awake in me just now and I do not feel like I am having much fun.

I have at least two choices.  One - I can choose to not like it and want it to be different (suffering).  Two - I can accept it and go with it (pain).

I can breathe into the pain and even talk to it.  I can experience it and do what feels best for me in this 'pain'.  I can ask it what it is trying to tell me and silently listen for an answer and/or be open to a 'knowing' that may be present.

Suffering is about not wanting what is.  When I want to be 'there' instead of 'here', I can create suffering.  I can choose to want to be 'there', however, with an acceptance of what is now.  I can move through and forward accepting my truth.  Honoring my truth.  It creates a space where growth can happen through acceptance and allow the suffering to dissipate/dissolve.

I did not always know how powerful our human bodies are.  I have learned how wise and powerful they are.  

Pain hurts.  I have taught myself to learn to do whatever it takes to get rid of it and not have it.   One of my self-established mantras was "I will try anything when I am in pain."  I meant in 'doing' anything.  I have now been in the 'being' of it moreso.

There is great growth, lessons, love and understanding in being with our truth and/or pain.

May you teach yourself to not let suffering stay too long.  Recognize it and address it.

When pain happens, honor it and be gentle with it.

It may be worth a try.  You know best for You.

Pain and suffering do not have to be lived in unison.  

Honor You.  Honor your Life.  Honor what is.  Honor your feelings.  

May you let an openness of your heart, mind and being flow within everything that your life experiences.  May your experiences be most joyful as possible.

To Dream

“To dream the impossible dream” and make it possible…  Yes You can.   

Have you ever had a dream and watched it come true?  Lived in it.  Felt it.  Played in it.  Recognized it.

I have been fortunate and have watched many of my dreams come to fruition.  It is my belief the ones that did not are the ones that were not really for me.

Oh and the ones that did.  They have blessed me and brought me much joy.  They are me being me.  From jobs to careers to love to homes to family to friends to travel to fun to way of life.  They were inside of me before they were my reality.

Dream.  Imagine.  If it is in you to do so, it is in you to realize them.  If they are not meant for you, no matter what you do or how much of it you do, they will not be so.

The ones that are for You, nothing will get in their way of becoming your life; your reality; your experience.  They are you being You.

Take time to feel the dreams inside of You.  Take time to imagine.  Take time to know what rings true for you; what calls to You.  

Oh the beautiful life that is in You.  

May you connect to the beautiful that is inside of You.

May you connect to your dreams and desires.  Open up to them.  Feel them.  Seek them.  Know them as your own.  

“To dream the impossible dream” and make it possible…  Yes You can.  

"Impossible is I'm possible" unknown

All in the Family

There is a lot of talk and hoopla around traditions and passing down actions/reactions and trauma through our genealogy.  

I'm reading where many are desiring to stop it with/through themselves now.  This way, we will not let future generations suffer, hurt and follow in our ancestors' previous ways of living and being that ar hurtful.  

I even saw a meme where it read "Tradition - Peer pressure from dead people.  Unknown".

Life and how we live it is certainly under new eyes, thoughts, awareness and consideration.

I believe this can be a very good thing.  I know this can 'stir the pot'.  I feel there is a whole lot of 'pots being stirred'.  

I believe that so much is coming up so we can choose to look at it, feel it, examine it and either change, keep or replace whatever it is that does come up.

My human brain is not evolved enough to handle it all.  My brain is unable and, perhaps, even unwilling to process everything that crosses my path.  Our evolution as a whole is just that.  Wholly united.  We are tied together and aware of so much more than we ever were as a planet; and beyond.  As One.  

As we enter this wholeness, it is best to, perhaps, go deep within ourselves and our own way of life through the wholeness of who, what and where we are in each moment and every future moment [moment to moment, case by case, experience to experience (in the Now)].  

As we uplift, care and love ourselves, we are more able to uplift, care and love each other.

As we build into the essence of our truth, we gather everything that is 'self' and examine it to change, keep or replace what we would like to bring with us into our creation of our future self.

I saw where Matthew McConaughey looks at himself 10 years from now as his hero.  He shoots for who he will be 10 years from now and lives his life now to create what a 'hero' is to him.  He said he never gets there.  Doesn't think he ever will.  And what a beautiful gift to himself and his loved ones and our world to look to be the hero in our own journey.  

We are the only ones responsible for our reactions to what we know, how we feel and who we are.

Choose You.  May you choose You.

I also read where mean people are the ones that are hurting.  The saying 'hurt people hurt people' comes up for me just now.  I often say when we are happy, we treat people through our happy.  So allowing, making, being open to your happy is open to uplifting others.  How very cool. !!

May you be open to your happy and share your cool happy self with others.

Oh what a world we would create.   I believe.  I'm on board.  I'm in.  

Happy Me.  Happy You.  Happy Us.

Thank You.

FreeBird

Fly High Freebird.   Fly High.  

Growing up I was told to 'fly high'.  I have been telling others to 'fly high' too.  

Flying high to me used to only mean living life to the max.  Grab life and live out loud.  Be happy.  Be productive.  Be true to You.  Go full force into everything that feels wonderful to You.  It is more about what is outside of myself that is meant for me.  

It can still mean this.  And, I have learned that it can also mean to live in full awareness, truth and trust as much and as often as possible.  To be vulnerable.  To know what is inside of myself yet to live.  When lessons and/or (what feels like) hardships happen, I can still fly high.  It is not the same feeling of wonderful.  Perhaps, it is more like wonderment.  The depth of living is still 'in play' and I am the creator of my own feelings.  

I can be true to myself.  I can grab life that is in front of me and inside of me to live.  I can be grateful for what is lovely in my life.  I can love.  I can even choose happiness through the hardship/lesson.  

The 'flying' feels different to me.  To be true to myself and look at the blessings within and around me, I fly.

Being human means a plethora of feelings and experiences are open to us.  

We are born to fly.  We are born to live.  We are born to love.  We are born to learn and to grow. 

We are meant to soar.   Living in and through our uniqueness is soaring.  Living in life that is outside of us and around us is soaring.  

Wherever You are just now.  Whatever life is showing you just now.  Whatever you are feeling just now.  Fill yourself up with your own love and blessings and fly.

May you so soar.