Do. Do Not.

Do not do, regularly or by choice, things you just want to get over and/or through.  

Whatever you find yourself choosing to do, may you consider making the best of it.  Do it with patience, willingness.  Be in it fully and with as much joy/peace as possible.  Perhaps, give yourself permission to not choose it at all. 

Create ‘it’ to be your best path just now.   Enjoy it.  Alter it.  Change it.  Forget about it.   

Choose things, people and life that make you happy.  That supports you being You.  Moments you enjoy being in.   

This is a way.  This is your choice if you let it be so.  

You internal universe knows what feels most like You; is You.  Tap in.  Listen.  Choose the truth of You. 

It is amazing what amazingness occurs.  

When I feel my best I am at my best and offer my best.  When I am miserable and/or drained, I am not at my best and find it impossible to offer my best in the same way.   At this juncture, being true to what is my best delivers my best.  

What a world it could be, perhaps, if we all strived and stayed true to feeling and being our best and, therefore, sharing our best.   

It starts within.   Life. You. Me. Others.  Every situation, encounter and experience.   Do be authentic and real.   

May we all be open to the ultimate [best way(s) of living] goal to share our best with ourselves and each other.   

"Simply the best."

You Are

You are beautiful.  

You are love(d).  

You are unique.

       You were made to be.  

Honor your uniqueness. 

Honor what makes You unique.  

See it. Know it.  Live it.  Breathe it.  Be it.  

All of the resources.  All of nature.  All through the cycle of life.  And there is only one You.  

Can life and living get any cooler than that…

I take many pictures of the same view of the sky and salt water.  I take many pictures of the sun and the moon.  

No two are identical.  

Just like You and I, we are meant to be unique.  

May you be what makes you You.

May you love what makes you You. 

May you share what makes you You. 

Because You are so, You matter.  

You matter by just being You. 

Let love.  Let trust.  Let truth.  Let You be so.  

Take a bow.  I applaud You being You.  

Your heart. Your light.  Your issues.  Your authentic, natural, divine self.  

You are so enough.  It is beautiful, lovely and unique how so enough You are.  

YOU.  The splendor of You.  The wisdom of You.

Emanating You - Priceless.   

Thankful

As I scroll through my Facebook feed today, I am seeing so many uplifting, diving deep, inspiring and loving posts and memes.    

I'm feeling so thankful to connect to them just now and in awe of all the love, care and inspiration that displays through my feed.  

I am so grateful to call each of You 'Friend'.   

I am feeling a bit like life has me rolling and floating on what feels like a wild mouse roller coaster ride with jerks, quick turns, drops and much discombobulation with things that life is showing me just now.  Oh what a ride.  

And there is always light.  There is always connection.  There is always a beauty within, around and for us.  

Sometimes, its prevalent and right here.  Other times, I need to search for it.  There is always what we look for present.  Between hardship and love.  

May you be open to see what connects you to what you feel best connected to.  If for whatever reason, you cannot see it, perhaps you can choose to be it and/or create it.  

I wish you peace in chaos; love in turbulence, inspiration where there is emptiness and your next step where it may be hard to know it and feel it at times.

May you go deep within when there is unrest without.  May you choose to send love over worry.  May your open heart and open mind understand and listen to your soul’s music.  

We keep on keeping on.   Even when we may feel like we cannot.  There is always a next step.   To breathe; To love..  are great steps to incorporate until the knowing comes forth. 

May you trust the process of your life. Trust yourself that you’ll know what to do when there is something for you to do.  Trust in the divine way and divine timing.  

Live in your ok-ness underneath and/or above any confusion or hardship.  It is usually in this breath, this moment, this experience, this surviving it now mode that you can feel and open to the depth of who you are where you being you; you being ok resides and supports You.  

Even when I do not much like a circumstance, experience or feeling, I am ok through the truth of my experience with my lovelight on.

May you know you’re ok in every circumstance, experience or feeling with your true reaction to it and your lovelight commandeering your reaction.   

Let love.  Be U.  This is your superhuman way, perhaps.   The way we were born to live.

Strawberries and Lollipops

Hello to You.  I wish You feelings and your connection to happiness and joy.

Why strawberries and lollipops are on my mind, together, I am not really sure.

I just had a frozen strawberry and banana smoothie.  But, lollipops.  For some reason, they popped in my mind and together with strawberries gave me a vision of happy childlike times and colorful joys.

Whatever 'works' for your happiness and joy from deep down inside of You out is what I wish for You just now.  

What comes to mind when you read this...  What comes to You when you go looking for something that connects you to and inspires your happiness and joy...  Go there.  May You go there.

Just for this moment, relax into yourself; breathe; let go and connect to a happy and/or joyful time/feeling/experience.  What is it for You...

You can go 'here' whenever You allow yourself to; whenever you want to.  

May you open up to your version of strawberries and lollipops and for moments at a time (or longer), allow your happy and joyful part(s) of you to be experienced from the place inside of you where your happy and joy are always lingering.  

May you look for things, people, places and moments that connect you to your happiness and joy and may you be happily and joyfully surprised how available serotonin, dopamine, endorphins and oxytocin glide through you for it to be so.  All you need do is choose what brings You happiness and joy.  You choose.  Your choice.  Your invitation.  Your openness to it.

Just now, for me, it is strawberries and lollipops.  Just the thought of strawberries and lollipops and how this thought resonates within me, I feel joy and happiness.  

Go You.

All You Need is

I attended an online conference today that was a women's summit for health and fitness for ACE certified professionals and new comers.  What a joy it was for me.  I so love women getting together with a cause of supporting each other, clients and being badass while doing so.

Badass in a way that the conference was filled with uplifting, kind, supportive people.  Energetic and energized people.  People wanting to learn.  People with great knowledge in the field.  

Women that have been in the 'business' of health and fitness a long time like myself (over 30 years) and women that are just starting out because they want to offer people a way to be their best, strongest and most whole self.

Exercise/Movement helps with confidence, feeling good, mental health, heart health, strong bones and muscles, flexibility, balance and more.  When we listen to our bodies as they and we change, Wow, the gift of movement, kindness, support and perseverance can be mind blowing.  

Exercise/Movement can blow away negativity, self-doubt, and exhaustion; along with poor health and attitude.  

What I noticed, because I haven't let myself do it often recently, was the camaraderie and support amongst the attendees, between the presenters and then just everyone present.  

That was hugely uplifting to me.  I guess I miss working among peers and co-workers.  

People need people.  I need people.  I love kind, caring, supportive people.   There are so many in our world.  and I like it best when I am kind, caring and supportive.

So, what is all we need...

To be true to ourselves.  To own who we are, what we feel, how we are and Move forward from this understanding and depth and ownership of self.

May you know thyself, love thyself, be thyself, honor thyself and then create from this current self that you are.  This current self that you choose to be totally open and engaged with an understanding and awareness of all that You are and all that You want to be.   

May we move (through) it, move (through) it.  

If you aren't loving the way you feel, Move in whatever way feels inviting to You and feel, watch and let the energy of You change to being open to inviting the spiritual (innate) depth of You up, out and onward.

May you move it, move it.  Just Be (true and open to the best of) U.  

Green Here

 I'm thinking about the saying that "The grass is always greener on the other side".  

No, it is not and Yes, it is.

It is greener in some ways.  In other ways, it is not.

I used to go to the New Jersey beach every weekend for many summers.  I always said if I ever lived there, I'd be at the beach every day.  Well, I lived there and I was less at the beach then as when I was just going down for the weekends.  Girl Parties every weekend!  I will always cherish those days forever.  

It was something about I always knew the beach was there and available to go to.  It had something to do with having a fitness business I was running then and there.  It was something about where I got my mail that I told myself I was less free and the beach seemed less easy to get to.  

I've lived in two different places a lot of my life and I found myself more relaxed and carefree when I was not at the place that my mail, that held me responsible and accountable, was delivered.

There was/is good and not so good at every place I ever lived.  I have had it all and there are always things/people/places/myself that touched me in different ways.  Dark green, light green, mint green, sea green and not green.  

This is life and living.  This is the human experience.

When I focus on what is green in my life, oh la la.  When I focus on what is not green, oh my-no no-not so fun.

May you focus on what is 'green' in your life and open to it and invite, feel, create and live in it and watch it and You flourish.  You get to choose which way of life (things/people/places/you) is more green to the you that You want to be just now and choose that.  

Live in the good in your life and be open to blossoming everything You - true, open, alive and with great gratitude for your blessings and a happy attitude from within You.

Boom.   Get your 'green' on.  It is how we see things that our life responds to. 

Incredible

“Your identity is your most valuable possession.”  The Incredibles

How beautiful.  How true.  What a gift.  To be YOU.  

I still have issues with 'voices' inside my head and feelings through my being with great ideas and desires.  I have others telling me not to go for them as if it believes it is protecting me and/or are voices of fear.  

May the voice(s) that is(are) driving you to thrive win over anything else.  Start small.  Start big. Feel all the feels and know what ideas and dreams you like the best for You and step into them.  Little steps. Big steps.  Plan. No plan.  If it's in you to dream it, it is so in you to do it.  

We are the one - truly the only one - that stops us being present and going forward.  

Choose the empowered ‘voice(s)’ that create(s) and bring(s) you into the awesome and fun of You, your way.  

May you allow yourself one ‘success’ today that has been wanting to come out and create and ‘play’ with You.  

Whatcha going do… Get down with it.  !!

Go You!   

May you own your ‘incredible’.

I saw a dragon in the sky last night.

“The dragon symbolizes power, change, and spirituality, and it also symbolizes good luck, fortune, and prosperity.   In some cultures, the dragon is a protector and is often associated with royalty.  The dragon spirit animal can also symbolize self-love and empowerment.  This spirit guide can help you tap into your power.” Google

In Taoist, the dragon magic is known to “express an essence of creation or power”.  Google

May you let the dragon/dragoness in You set fire to your burning passion(s), excitement and/or enthusiasm.   

In This Land

In this land where we all have 'landed' is a strange and beautiful, expansive time and a changing of the way of ‘doing/being human’.  

Much is being questioned.  Much is being brought out into the light so we can see, feel, learn and grow. We can choose peace and love.  We can just angst and hardship.  We can choose neutrality.  We can choose to experience our experiences in whatever means and methods we wish.  We can choose anger.  We can choose to show our vulnerable and authentic self.  We can pretend.  We can be/get real.  

Which is your go to choice...  Which is your habitual choice...  What would be your chosen choice to love the way you live your life through innately knowing what is most happy and fulfilling to You...  

In this land and time, more and more of us are learning that we have the power, the right and the responsibility to choose the best for ourselves, our earth, each other, all living creatures and to brighten up the way of living, here now, as One.  

We all do best through love.  We all want to matter.  We all want to be seen and heard.  It's not so much, perhaps, as fitting in anymore.  It's about making a difference and leaving things and people in a better place than when we arrived.  Or, at least, not in a place of less than.  Even though many know and are realizing less is sometimes better than more.  

Oh, the lands on which we all transverse.  

May from the ground up, we label it holy.  From the sky down, may we label it wonderment.   

Perhaps, you are a lover of the land.   Whatever your interest(s), may you participate in and through from where you are now to where and what You are here to do.  

Let honor, love, wisdom and knowledge drive the joy of You.  Be and do You - in and on the land you inhabit - between the limitless possibilities of the earth and the sky.  

Namaste. Blessed be. Blessings and love.  

May you totally be the awesome You that You were sent here to be.  

Life depends on what You do and who You are.  Represent.  Represent the holy wonderment.  

Be the positive You wish to see, experience and grow in our world.  

"Thank You in advance for your immediate attention to this matter."  (This was often the last sentence in many of the large number of letters I transcribed, typed and edited 100 years ago as a Secretary.  Ha.)

                                         

Mother

If You are a Mother…

You are love.  You offer it.  You share it.  You are an endless supply of it.  You are a Mother and You are love(d).

You nurture.  You teach.  You listen.  You learn.  You go on an endless journey of things you yourself never would have imagined or thought of.  You find yourself places you yourself never would have gone.  

Your willingness.  Your openness.  Your ability to change, transform, engage in, let go of and experience life through your children and others You love.   A mother’s love is undying and neverending.  

The joy you get from seeing them happy and succeed (in what brings them joy in being fully themselves) is the greatest of joys for You.  

You are a Mother and who You are and what You do and the realness of Your love is one of the greatest, grandest, most amazing loves that few have the luxury and awe to witness, feel and experience from You.

You are a Mother and to each of your children, you never stop ‘birthing’ life, love and honor into each and every one you were blessed with, that you have chosen or through life’s circumstances find yourself mothering.

God bless You and may you get to witness often the love that emanates from those You are blessed with to mother. 

To my child, Jessica Morgan, thank You for choosing me.  Just thinking of You blesses me unlike any one else can or does.  You have taught me so much and You are one of my absolute joys.  I have the pleasure of watching You grow through all your life in every day of my life since I was blessed with my most treasured gift - You. 

Happy Mother’s Day to all the ‘Moms’ who have nurtured, been there, are there, forever loving, cherishing, engaging and uplifting ‘children’ of all ages, whether they were born to You or you chose them.  They are a gift to You and You to them.    

One of life’s greatest honors.   To love and be loved as a Mom.  

To my Mom, who is no longer on earth physically but is with me in my heart forevermore.  Thank You.  I love You always.   

Motherhood never ends.  It supports and uplifts children in the most brilliant of loves.  The Mom/Child bond.  Once written, never breaks.  

I bow my head to the mother of all loves.   Moms.   

Thank You for all You are and do honoring and loving your child(ren).   Always and Forever.  In ways that even, just maybe, surprise/amazes You.  

To be our true self so our children may witness our trials and tribulations [in each appropriate way for their age] and how we keep on loving through just may one of the ultimate helpful gifts we can offer our children's futures.  

The best of You is enough and meant to be lived.  May You let your truth mother along with You through the depth of your unique and awesome mom love.  Empowering and real.  LOVE.   

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Breathe Deep

It is always a good time to breathe and to be aware that you are.  Breathe deeply into your belly.  In and out. In and out.  Expanding and contracting.   Relax into yourself.  Fill yourself up with oxygen.  Fill yourself up with your love.   

From the top of your head to the tips of your toes.   Breathe.  Love.  Relax into You.   Let your body be heavy and be completely supported by whatever is underneath you.   

Relax your shoulders.  Relax your jaw.  Breathe.  

Feel your blood healthy and oxygen enriched flowing freely and easily throughout your body.  Thank your organs for doing such extraordinary work on their own and in harmony together.  Smile at the awe and wonder of it and You.  Honor what is working.  Send extra love to what may not be at 100%.  

Thank your 'bodymap' with all its specifications and immense knowledge of your beautiful physicality and function.  Your muscles that move you.  The connection with your brain and your body to give and receive messages through the roadmap that is You(rs).  The cells rejuvenate themselves and do so many things that include the mitochondria where energy is made and processed.   

How miraculous You are.  Breathe and, perhaps, offer great universal and self-gratitude.    

I have heard it say that we are the ‘watcher’ of our thoughts and what we do.   We surely can be. 

May you get out of your own way and let You happen with the ease, wisdom, flow, truth, trust, life and living of You.  Just Be yoU in your God given, creator given, universal support of the majestic-ness of your life.

May you breathe deep and know that You Are.   

Everything else is a bonus.  

Your journey.  Your joys.   Your knowledge.  Your passion(s).   Your experiences.   Your growth.  Your being.  Your doing.   Your wins.   Your lessons.   You happening.   You-rah.  Hoo-rah.  Hell Yes.  You. 

Now go get on with your day and may you not forget to play.   

You are the one you’ve been looking for.  You are the one that knows you best.  You are the one.  

You are the only one that you spend your entire life with.  Now that is something to honor and is regal.  ‘august’.   

May you be the person you greatly enjoy to be around; as much and as often as possible.   

Acceptance

What if you chose acceptance...

You know that thing that has been bothering You; for some time, awhile, years or even decades…

What if you just choose to start accepting it as it is and live your life free from wanting it to be different…

Would this be honor of self, honor of life, honor of trust and honor of love...

Acceptance doesn't mean you have to like it.  Acceptance means it is what it is and you can choose to focus on your happiness instead.  Let any negativity or worry go.  Welcome in your own love and peace.  Open to happiness through your own awe and beauty in your life.  

Through your peace and love, there just may be a better and definitely more enjoyable way to live and see what happens; let it play itself out without any white knuckles or conundrum vibes in your body and/or mind.  

How freeing would that feel and be.  Invite better vibes than nonacceptance...

Just like forgiveness, it does not have to mean, it is ok or that you like it.   It 100% can mean you choose not to play in(to) that particular energy that helps/changes nothing and hurts You.      

May you choose You in the sunshine of your choices.   

Dynamic

When we change our own dynamic in a situation, a thought, a relationship... we change the entire dynamic.     

Dynamic - pertaining to or characterized by energy or effective action; vigorously active; basic or dynamic force, especially one that motivates , affects development or stability (dictionary)

Bringing your awareness, truth, your reasoning, your viewpoint, your desire into a situation, a thought or a relationship openly and loving ignites and offers change and value.  As You offer this, it allows for and offers anyone involved to do the same.   

As you bring forth, organically, the true nature of You into each moment and through every breath, the situation, thought and/or relationship breathes through and from the energy of your true nature. 

A habitual dynamic is just that, until - through awareness and mindfulness, you bring your whole self anew, through who You are now and your truth and honesty of your needs/wishes exactly as You are now.  

We all change and grow with our own experience and the experiences of life, our world, our universe and everything a part of it.    

Keep climbing your mountain.  Keep walking on in your valleys.  Keep crossing the open plains.  Stay honoring yourself and others by bringing your mindful, organic and dynamic truth with you and steps will appear one by one causing the clarity of your journey.  This can best support you in reaching your top - experiencing completeness of being You in each situation, thought and relationship; within and through every breath you take.      

In this, energy vibes are created that resonate in the universe uplifting and raising energy for others to tap into through their own dynamic awareness and mindfulness to rise up.  Climbing, walking, crossing.  Being, sitting, standing in.

May you bring the whole and true dynamic of You into every situation, thought, and relationship you are experiencing in each (‘now’) moment of your life.      

Emoting Emotions

Can sadness/happiness be more than an emotion…  May be all emotions can be good for us if I don't judge them as good or bad and all things in between.   

Pain can hurt deeply.   As we allow our self to really feel and be with it (as much as possible), can it also lead us in a better way to a more lovely path.   A deeper, most real and true connection to self.  

Can what we feel present itself to offer a new and/or change in direction and our journey.

Can we open to the telling of and the answer in the moment of what we ourselves experience.   

What if emotions are not good or bad...  What if we view them as sensations, information, pathways home and into the truth of who we are.   

Our emotions emote us through, up and forward maybe.   With love, they lead us to our next best step.   

May you let your emoting emotions be the ‘sensation’ into and to your most true and loving beingness and experience of living your unique way.   

Feel what You feel and open to the loving way(s) of You.    

Trust that you feel what you feel for real reasons.  Honor thyself and everything You feel.  Feel your own love with everything you feel.  

Grounding from Within

How nice when I let myself do whatever I want to do throughout the day; to the best of my ability.   It is what feels like ‘vacation’ to me.

Our world is surely in a state of disrepair and repair.   Our loving truth is the quickest way to rise up to where we are going.   

May your needs matter to You more than they ever have from the depth of your innate knowing, love, truth and the miracle that is You.   

May you know and have many ‘tools’ [to connect to the loving wisdom you were born with].  Be one with them, use them, give yourself all the comfort and love.  You are here to be what you were born to be through whatever You want to be and to get conscious of who you know yourself to be.  

We are, perhaps, being asked to build from the inside out.  Divine timing.  Divine love.  Divine intervention.   Divine wisdom.  

It feels good when I stay in my own love instead of worry.  Share and honor my truth.  Relax into myself asking my body to do its magic that it knows how to do.  Take and do what feels helpful and supportive to me.    

It can, at first, take a lot of energy to be true to You in a world that many were taught, perhaps, to wear masks.  May you be open to You being exactly where you are supposed to be.  Move forward from/through here and now; again and again and again.   Let your loving truth.  

We all have our cycles and stressors and magic and love and uniqueness to honor.  What we know as our definition ‘to thrive’ changes and cycles too.  Out of the down and/or dark times comes new light and a new, better easier way of being.      

Whatever cycle and change you find yourself in, own it as uniquely You(rs) because it is.   

May we honor ourselves exactly as we are and g(r)o(w) from here.  Amen.  

Allow yourself to do what feels best in this moment and time now for You.  Settle into this.  Ground yourself in this.   This, perhaps, is what enables flight. 

Always bow to your love and grace.