Fun Adventures

I have done a lot of living over and throughout my life thus far.   As this is an extra special week for me, I'd like to reminisce. 

I married in Hawaii on the island of Kauai during a three week honeymoon.   I hiked the Napali Coast and snorkeled their beautiful waters.  We helicoptered over brilliant waterfalls and mountains and hiked Haleakala, a dormant volcano.  I stood at the bottom of this volcano and realized then, that the size of myself is nothing in comparison to the whole of what is.

I've walked the pink sands of Bermuda and fished the deep seas of the Bahamas.  I played and danced in Mexico and walked the famous Wharf of San Francisco, California.  I had a picnic at the vineyards in Napa Valley Wine Country and stayed at the shores of the Navy Seal program in San Diego.   I've eaten lobster in Maine and crabs with 'bay seasoning' in Maryland.  I've been to Washington State and New Orleans, Louisiana.  I've seen New York Broadway shows and I've been in some real 'dive bars' and had brilliant fun.  

I've lived in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Florida, USA.  I helped design and build a 6,000 sq. ft. home from scratch.  I've lived in one of the most beautiful country clubs in the United States.  I lived on a yacht for 8 days and I've camped in a few campgrounds.  For much of my life, I've lived in two places at the same time and traveled between the two.   Some a car ride away.  Some a plane ride away.  

I have belly danced, flown first class, been super spontaneous through fun adventures and ‘exploring with curiosity’ to see where I will end up.  I have hosted and thrown (what I think of) as amazing parties and get togethers.  I have visited spectacular places, experienced spectacular strength and witnessed amazing grandeur, love and the process from imagination to reality.  

My love of life and connecting to people was always my underlying cause of being Me.   

I've owned my own fitness company, Beachin Bodies and my slogan was "Make Yourself a Beachin Body!" in Margate, New Jersey.  Here in Palm Beach County, Florida, I have created Just 9Be U with the slogan of “Grow Yourself Complete”. 

I have such deep care for the human race, our world and all living creatures.   

I am a certified Personal Trainer, certified Life Coach and certified Minister.   

I had a beautiful baby girl when doctors were uncertain if my body was going to be able to.  I've watched her grow every step of the way and I will be forever honored by the miracle of her.  She amazes me always.   

I have been with the same brilliant man for 38 years.  We have been married for 32 years.   

I have been extremely blessed.

I want to help others to live the life and truth of who they really are.  I want every one to believe and connect to the possibility of being all that is inside of them; that everything they need for this lifetime they already have.  I want you to connect to who you are and share your truth and honor of self and your Creator with all that you encounter.  

I want us to complete this puzzle of humankind and individually live our utmost loving truth, together.  I believe by choosing to live ALL of the truth of who we are, lovingly, WE WIN. 

May you choose to 'WIN'.  

Perhaps, this is the greatest time on this planet to embrace the miraculous-ness of the Universe.  It feels so wide open.  We are all in this together, during this time, in this place.  

May you know the importance and miracle of YOU and your energy here.    

Live your life through love and through what you love and the honor of Being You.   

In this, perhaps, we are most able to share love and honor with each other.   

Life can be grand.  You can be grand.   Life is grand.  You are grand.     

May you realize what is grand to You through each ‘open to love’ breath you take.   

Already There

If you find yourself not wanting to speak about something or not wanting a certain situation to have been your experience for fear and/or concern that this step will make it real then I’d like to offer you this…

It is not going to make it any more real than it is.  It already is real.  It already is true.  Whether we speak of it or not.  Whether we pretend and/or tell ourselves it is not real or did not happen.  It is real.  It did happen.   We are living in the world of it happening.   It is a part of our life whether we live in awareness of it or not.   

Speaking of it or opening to your experience of its truth just may bring more clarity and create new opportunities of moving through it and forward.

Just maybe, perhaps, living it out loud could bring you support.  It may surprise you with a different aspect and allow you to feel yourself more deeply and even show you a new understanding of living this/your truth.  Perhaps, even a new found peace develops.  There will be no more anticipation or thought of what you may have been dwelling on or burying or stuck in.  The energy of it will begin to dissipate.  

More opportunities, information, freedom and wisdom may show up in the courage to bring your true self into the entirety of your life and what is You.  

Your breath, your life, your feelings .. your way    

May you live in everything You(rs).  Through your truth, your trust, your love, your wisdom, your feelings, your way.   Experience life as it is now.  Honor the opening up of your own mind and heart.   

It is time.   

The only way through our 'stuff' and our feelings is to acknowledge and feel everything You.  The only way through is through.  

May you walk through.   

Red

The color red and the master of your vitality... 

Red has a range of meanings including "life, health, vigor, war, courage, anger and love".

Red also symbolizes "energy, passion, strength, courage, physical activity, creativity, warmth and security". 

"It is also associated with aggression.  In healing, red can bring warmth and burn out dis-ease."  (Google)

Aggression, war, and anger, within ourselves, can be about knowing what we want and doing something different.  Not feeling safe.  Not living ourselves fully.  Not being mindful, aware and/or open to caring through our own love.  The war within ourselves can come about listening to our minds without including our hearts.  The war within is sometimes between what we know and what we feel.   

When we match with what is going on within us to what we show on the outside of ourselves, with love and mindfulness, we create vitality and vigor.   

Vulnerability takes courage, truth, self-awareness and trust; of self, of others.  Living in, through and forward in our sometimes vulnerable truth can be the most uplifting thing we can do for ourselves and each other.  

Red is the color that most represents love.    

You are love(d).   Fill this love in every cell and bring it into every experience.   Get comfortable and allow it to be commonplace to feel it in every breath you take.   

You are the master of your vitality.  

When we do and live doing the things we love and being the way(s) that make(s) us feel good and aligned with out truth, our vitality soars.  No outside noise.  Just ‘am’ by the beating from our own hearts; living to the beat of our own drum.  

When we stay true to who we are and what we feel, honoring ourselves, the things that bring us joy, we uplift ourselves which in miraculous ways uplifts the vibration of all that surrounds us and everything and every one that is a part of life itself.    

May you let the vitality of You soar and highlight each day.    

Pain

Pain.  What an interesting and (can be) scary thing.

Pain asks us to Pay Attention I Need your awareness and love.

I often want to ignore it.  I often wanted to numb it.  I am afraid of feeling it.  I have learned to honor it.

I have known pain most of my life.  On and off.  More on than off.  

Scleroderma is a dis-ease that has shown me great pain and taught me great love and empathy.  Peace was my biggest yearning for a long time.  

To pay attention, honor and love through is what creates peace to me.  I have finally connected to the peace that comes from being me.   

The more I honor and match what is going on within me with what I show on the outside of me - in thorough vulnerability and kindness - the more at peace I am.   

Pain lessens.  Experiencing love and connection to ‘me being me’ increases.   Peace blooms and endures.  

There are still moments of un-peace.  In the now, as I am - accepting and bringing my authentic self into all that life shows me, I invite peace. 

In peace, I can adventure forward.  In peace, I can breathe more deeply.  With peace, I can most easily share love.  As peace, I rise from the depth of myself. 

And above life’s woes - or is it below them or maybe even through them - I grow.  I am led.  I live open to seeing, feeling, knowing and being the ‘silver lining’ of mostly all that feels difficult.  

Humans have angst.  It comes from wanting life to be different than what it is.  The word ‘should’ pops up in my mind.  I have learned to not ‘should’ on myself or others.  The word should often brings angst. 

Honoring what is, as it is, and bringing my true and loving self into and through it is what fulfills my soul’s purpose and helps to keep my heart open.  

When we are not in attack and/or defense mode, we are in the flow mode   Growth happens more freely.  Understanding opens up.  Dreams become reality.  Universal love heals us.  The universe within us and this conglomerate of life we all live in.  

May you open to universal openness of your own heart, mind, soul and body.  

Let your universal wisdom and awareness, together, create the peace that is You being You.  

Feel any pain that shows up for You to pay attention to.  Honor it in your best way.  Learn from it.  Be true to it.  What if we could sometimes think of pain as a sensation that alerts us into a deeper understanding of our lives and our living.    

It can be so UnFun.  It can be a way to acceptance and healing of You honoring You.   

May we honor and love.  May we grow and become.   May we live true and love through.

May You realize the peace that awaits your invitation and allows you the freedom to live through trusting yourself and self love.

Through your own given freedom to live in your truth, peace and love, just maybe, the pain lessens and the depth of your You-ness rises and soars.

Light of the Slivery Moon

The new moon is happening now. The cycle of our moon - yours, mine and ours - is currently between the earth and the sun.  

The light of this moon phase is fragmented or absent.   Yet, the wholeness of it is still in its full, natural state.  We just cannot see it looking up.

We (each of us) are also whole no matter how we or others are able to see us. 

This could mean that the part(s) that show(s) could take preference and/or are asking to be given our most attention to.  It could mean in this cycle, there is a huge part of ourselves choosing rest, rejuvenation, just being and accepting ‘what is’ phase.

You - through your mindfulness, wisdom and awareness encourages your life in this phase and all the phases of You being You organically..  like the moon, the sun, the stars and the sea.   

Any phase you are experiencing can be open to allowing, honoring, realizing and being fully in to all that is You.  

Organically, let You happen.  Organically, let life happen.  Organically, let You happen with what shows up as the flow of your life.

May you bring your wisdom, honor, realization, truth, trust, knowledge and dreams with you through all your feels and encounters.  Apply yourself.  Be yourself.   Live from the life yet inside of You to live out.

Silver is the color that calms, restores, enlightens and heals.  It can inspire intuition and reflection and highlight our way.

A sliver is a small piece.  We can concentrate on slivers of our self or as a whole or anywhere in between.

You choose what is happiest to put your attention on   You choose love.  You choose to participate in the part(s) of You that show(s) up for attention and, yet, invite the best of You with and into it. 

Like the moon, the sun, the stars, and the sea flows - flows You.   

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Content

My reaction to my life starts with the content I allow and connect to in my mind. 

The content I experience as my life is through the content that is in my mind.  

It is not always easy.  It often can feel impossible.  And with love, kindness, wisdom and my own given freedom of choice, I can create what I tell myself about anything and everything my senses experience and process.   I can open my life to miracles and being marvelous.

Content -  “that which may be perceived in something” Dictionary

May you be aware of the content you are creating and meeting with and through your mind. 

Let the content be uplifting and joyful as you create it and allow it to be a part of your thoughts, feelings and reactions.  

May you witness your ‘best of’ content; as often and as much as possible.   

Live through the truth, trust and love that is your reality in each moment.  Look around, open up and breathe the wholeness of You.  

Excel at being fully present and loving You.  

Let your true colors breathe how You experience life within, around and about yourself, mindful of the content you are presenting and being presented. 

May you choose what is your most authentic and self-supportive way.   

May you choose the way(s) that are most loving and of value.    

Path of Green

There is a brighter light, love and wisdom growing all around us and rising up from within us.   Can you feel it…. Do you want to….  Are you open to it…  

Green is the color for healing.

Your journey, your path is unique unto you.  No one knows what it feels like to be you or can experience life the exact way that you do.  

Your journey is yours alone.

Perhaps, We either win or learn.  We don't lose.  Nelson Mandela suggested this and I like it.  

What if what shows up for You to experience is just that - yours to experience.  The emotions attached to them is You being You just now.  You can keep them, alter them, change them.   What you emote, through mindfulness, with work but also play, gives you opportunities to own and create through the best of being you.   

May you be aware of how you feel.  Honor your feelings.   As we are mindful and allow our feelings their time and breath, we are best directed into and through the phases of living who, what and why we are as we are. 

Living the human experience suggests and equates to a full array of feeling, being, doing, growth, letting go, holding on and becoming.  

The paths that you choose matter most to your experiences.  

Listen to the whispers of your soul, heart, body and mind.   Let the love that lives within lead you up and through to your best options and greatest choices.   

Journey through the journey of Being True to You.  Let your love, wisdom, knowledge and awareness take you higher.    

This is, perhaps, the 'healing place'.  Heal on.  

Spirit in the Sky

On Easter Eve, I was out on my deck mesmerized with what I will call ‘angel wings’ magically appearing as clouds.  Feathery, striking, classy and whispered across the sky.  It was a sight.  It was a gift, in my mind, filled with promise and magic.  A magical blue sky with magical clouds.  

I’d like to call it ‘delicate beauty’.   Brush strokes of wings all around me.   It sure felt angelic to me.  

May you hear the whispers of wisdom and see the beauty of life within you and around you.   

May you rise up to touch the sky.  Rise up to meet and be your own awesome. 

Believe that support and signs of support are everywhere.

Open your heart, mind, soul and body to your own innate knowing and depth to receive, be uplifted and supported towards the best of your endless and wonderful possibilities.   

Let the door to your heart be open and knowing that the door, when/if used, does swing both ways.   

Abuzz

I lie in bed reading and the word that comes to mind as I check in with myself is ‘abuzz’.  

My whole body feels alive and buzzing.  My head has vibrations and my ears tinnitus.  Down to my feet, I can say that my body is feeling like an orchestra of ‘aliveness’ is playing through me.  

Ok.  That can sound weird.  

And, this truly is my experience.   

Is it the full moon…. Is it because I did not exercise today…. Is it because I can often feel overwhelmed with life and information being shared with each other.  

Right now, today, tomorrow and yesterday seem filled with non-sense and things opposite of what I wish the world I lived in looked, acted and felt like.  

Yes when I look, I can find beauty.  I can feel kindness.  I can know and be love.  My gratitude overflows for these things.  

And I can see pain in others’ eyes.  I can feel angst and uncertainty in others’ words and bodies.  I can hear and experience TMI and overloading of our mere mortal brains and bodies.   

Life, living and our world is abuzz.   

May the UnFun things buzz off.  May love and kindness buzz from and to/through each of us.  May we recognize how we feel and what we need/want and support one another in creating the buzz to be true to our own needs and needs of others.  Desires. Dreams. Wishes. Hopes.  

I hear myself ask God what can I do better and quickly adding to please tell me in words because the last time I asked to be shown my courage, I ended up at an emergency dental visit.  I hear “believe in yourself”.. “believe in Me”.  Well that felt pretty amazing and comforting to me.  

So while I don’t like everything I feel, know and see, I can have faith that all is well.  Out of what I am perceiving as non-sense just may prove to have life and our world falling into place instead of (or is it along with) the falling apart I perceive as such.  

Wouldn't that be grand..  Dare I say a miracle..  I know miracles happen every day.  

May you believe in yourself.  May you believe in support from a divine source that is so much greater than us all and is for us all.   

I am grateful for many things.

May you realize what you are grateful for.  

May you feel your gratitude echo throughout You.   

Cycles

Honor yourself fully.  The self that yourself is craving.. What if by honoring yourself is what brings the 'best of You' energies forth…

Some of us were taught or we taught ourselves that upbeat and going-going is living.  It is.  And living is also silence and downtime and recharge time and sad times. 

Throughout it all we can love.  Perhaps, living is truly about loving.   

Being human can be serious stuff filled with all human emotions.  We all have our journeys that we came here to journey through.   

Ups and downs and all arounds.  It is the moon’s cycle, the sun’s cycle, the ocean’s cycle, the earth’s cycle, the human race’s cycle and the human being cycle.  

I innately breathe and believe in and flow with the cycle of Me.   

May you believe in and flow with your cycle from within You; from the place where there is a knowing and a peace; your trust and your love.  

The world feels and is different.  We can choose love and truth and whatever comes to You through same; just maybe.  

Don’t live your life on what happened in the past.  Live in how You feel/wish to experience life now and going forward.   From the love and truth that is You(rs).   

Tude

There's a lot to be said regarding gratitude, attitude, fortitude and algebra.

Regarding gratitude, I 'practice' it.  I am grateful for the people in my life, the comfort in my life, the animals, the love; for my growing, becoming, altering, flowing and participating in the journey of my life.

Life is not always pleasant and, yet, there is always pleasant in life.  I am also grateful for You stopping in and, hopefully, checking in with yourself and being mindful and kind to You.

Regarding attitude, it is within my attitude that I experience my life and my life's situations.  I can choose, consciously, my best way through.  I can just let my emotions take me where they may.  I can choose to be open minded and open hearted.  I can choose to 'work' with 'what is' through my heart and mind working together to make the best decisions for me.

Regarding fortitude - well, being human can often take immense amounts.  Tapping into our own courage, endurance, fearlessness, patience and perseverance is necessary throughout our human existence.  Sure, we all exist.  Adding fortitude to our existence adds life's thrills and adherence to empower what is inside of us to be and do.  

And, the possibilities inside each one of us are unique, empowering and can be uplifting and fun.  May you invite them all up and out to 'play'.  

Regarding algebra, well, not many people, in every day life, use this or find much need for it.  It is just something taught and something that some love.  It is there.  Like many things in life, just because it works for one does not mean it works for everyone.

May you find your own uniqueness and live it with passion and love through your own gratitude, your best attitude and your astounding fortitude.  

That's what I am talking about.  !!   This is what I find fascinating, interesting and beautiful.  

May you explore what you find fascinating, interesting and beautiful.