Paradise

Breathe.  May you breathe and live in your truth, right now, as you are, through your own love and inner wisdom.    Through this, may you be free.  

Free yourself to create your own paradise.  Perhaps, it starts in your mind and in how you choose to be from all the ‘yous’ that are possible....    Ha!

Each one of us have many feelings, emotions, thoughts, ways of being, ways of expressing and things we love and things we do not love.

Realizing which is which.  Feeling what comes up.  Being in the moment of now...  frees us to live authentically.

Just Being U, without judgement; without fear and with lots of love is paradise to me.

I wish you paradise.  Get.  It  On.

Suffering

“... each moment offers us an opportunity to accept what we feel, think, want and need without allowing our fears to result in more self-rejection and thus more suffering. The majority of our self-criticism actually results from denying our true self, because in doing so we are lying to ourselves and to others. Then, we give ourselves a hard time for doing so. This is why finding the courage to speak and act based on our true feelings now is the most practical expression of accepting all of who we are as well as the most direct path to enjoying our life.”

“Through following our heart, we eventually realize exactly what we need to realize about what supports our overall wellbeing and love for ourselves, and what does not, because it’s only through trial and error that we finally learn to enjoy life each day without doing so self-destructively. This dance between what we desire and the associated pleasure and pain always leads to a clear understanding of the universe’s perfectly designed plan to wake us up and help us remember that all of the peace, happiness, freedom and love we desire will only be found within ourselves.”

            From the book "You Were Not Born to Suffer" by Blake Bauer

BAM!  It is my time to know my truth, feel my truth, hear my truth, live my truth, witness my truth, respond to my truth and share my truth...  from the most loving place available to me within allowing my truth.

I see myself doing so.   I hear myself doing so.   I feel myself not being able to do anything other than acknowledge to myself and express my truth out to everything that is involved in this known truth of mine.

Whoa.  It can feel scary.   It can feel hard to stomach.  It is definitely being vulnerable.  It is enlightening.  It is the greatest gift that will lead me to the truth of my life.   The most awesome available to us comes through living and sharing our truth from the most honest, open and compassionate place deep within.  Fill it with light and let it burst forth beautifully.

May you open up to experiencing, hearing, feeling, living, witnessing, responding and sharing your truth.  May you fill it with light and let it burst forth beautifully.

Holy Moon

Last night was a ‘supermoon’; a full moon; the 'worm' moon; the spring moon.  It was a beauty.  The sky was so bright from inside of my condo that I felt like I had to go downstairs and take a look.  I was called to experience the magic of the moon.

Holy moon!

The wind was so strong.  I felt it moving, encasing and circling around me.  It felt wonderful and exhilarating.  I felt so alive.  Every part of me was uplifted, what felt like, into the light!   I so appreciate moments like this.  FUN

Just giving of one's self completely to the moment and feeling(s) associated with the moment.  It is a gift.  It is one of the greatest gifts we can experience.

May you experience just giving into moments where you just open up to, feel and respond to your feeling(s).   Sometimes there’s a soulful whisper asking us to do something.  Sometimes there is a release.  Sometimes there is great joy.  Sometimes, an unique experience just for you is present and offering itself to You.

Holy...
 divine   spiritual   humble   faithful   pure   blessed   unworldly

May you open up to the most holy/wholly of You...

Empath

From the book "Thriving as an Empath" by Judith Orloff

"As I’ve grown as an empath, I can appreciate the gift of being different. I am moved by this anonymous quote: “If you feel you don’t fit into this world, it’s because you’re here to create a better one.” Sensitive people are meant to bring light into the world. Empathy is a strength, not a weakness. I applaud everyone who looks different, feels different, or thinks different. The world needs the difference you will make.

SET YOUR INTENTION I will not buy into any belief that doesn’t affirm the worth of my sensitivity, compassion, and love. I will be empathic in my own life and advocate these values in the world."

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"Still, a big challenge for all sensitive people is how to be compassionate without absorbing the stress of others and the world.  We don't have the same filters as most people.  We are emotional sponges who feel everything and instinctively take it in.  This differs from "ordinary" empathy, where your heart goes out to others in pain or happiness, but you don't take on their feelings.  We empaths are helpers, lovers, and caretakers who often give too much at the expense of our own well-being. Research suggests that our mirror neuron system (a part of the brain responsible for compassion) is hyperactive, which can burn us out.  This is not how I choose to live.  I want to be loving, but overhelping or absorbing someone's distress just puts me on sensory overload, which is painful to my sensitive body and soul.   It also doesn't serve the other person in any lasting way."


Judith Orloff writes beautifully and the information feels true and helpful to me.  

May I offer some (maybe) helpful tips if you feel burned out by caring, doing, giving too much of yourself that you find you have very little to nothing left for yourself; at certain times.  'At certain times' meaning way too often.   Ha.

EVERY time you give out to the world, a situation or another, keep a bit of what you are giving out for yourself.  As you give away 'energy', store some of this energy inside of yourself; each and every time.

PERHAPS, try to picture a bubble around yourself.  A bubble of protection.  Nothing can get in unless you allow it.  You can imagine mirrors on the outside of the bubble facing out as to deflect negative energy from yourself and allow what is happening outside of yourself to be mirrored back to the world, a situation or a person that may be presenting in a way that feels unsupportive and even harsh to you.

NUTURE yourself.  Do something every day just for you.  It can be as simple as taking a moment to just sit and breathe in and out fully and mindfully. to exercise. to a massage, a bath, a dinner or an outing into nature.

TALK kind and loving to yourself.  If you do something that you are proud of, thank yourself.  If you make a mistake, comfort yourself.  If you find yourself being your own worst enemy, begin to be your own best friend.

REST when you are tired.  If you hear yourself saying that you do not have time to rest, then, perhaps, work at a 75% energy level instead of your usual 100%.

ASK for help.  Give someone the opportunity and gift of being able to help and support you from time to time.   Knowing how good you feel when you help 'others', allow 'others' the same feeling of good.

'Empath' is not even in the dictionary.  'Empathy' is "appreciation, compassion and recognition".

If this feels true to you, it feels true to you.  This, much more than a label, can be your guide.

It is a beautiful thing to care, support, give and love another.   It is a really beautiful thing when we care, support, give and love another through a full and supportive 'tank' of same within ourselves.

Magic is the loudest.  Life is the most enjoyable.  Love carries us all.

Light is the brightest.

May you allow your magic, your life, your love and your light to be the loudest and brightest possible; as often as possible.

May  you live in the truth of everything that you are... from a place of inner wisdom and a fulfilled feeling of self-empowerment.    just being U.

                                                  Picture by Rebecca Ilene Photography

Truth Changes

Truth.  Being truthful.  Living in our truth.

May you not judge your truth harshly.  May you just feel it as you experience it and live in it; the truth you perceive just now.  Notice it.  Does it uplift you...  Does it bring you down...

Not every one’s truth is the same. In fact, no one’s truths are 100% the same.  Sometimes it may be hard to understand another’s truth because we haven’t experienced same. We haven’t lived it.  It is, however, possible to let the other truth be so - even when we cannot connect to it.

I think the best way to do this is to allow for truths outside our own to be just that.  Truths that are different than what We, I, You know as truth.

I do know that there are things/thoughts that were once my truth in the past are no longer what is true for me today.

The saying ‘never say never’ is a real and true thing as we continually live through and experience new situations.  We grow and learn from these same and reoccurring situations.  They usually keep happening until we do.  We also grow and learn from all the changed and new situations that occur.

Most of us have been in situations; growing up with each other; experiencing the same sort of ordeals and witnessing of and participating in the same exact 'stories' and, yet, each one of us will have experienced them differently in some way and/or would label their version of same as truth; from a different perspective; a different life; a different version; a different experience; a different outcome which could look and sound like a completely different 'story'.

Do you ever watch something such as a TV show or during a get together or even when driving down the road and the person with you will say did you see that; did you see this; wow, I can't believe that just happened and you truly and simply will not know what they are talking about.  And it is [simply and interestingly] because you were having your own experience of the same thing.  You were looking at the same story (completely) different. You were hearing it in a different way.  You both were experiencing the same exact scenario but from and through the experience of you uniquely being you.

What you each saw was true for you in the moment because it was from your own individual lens and being-ness.  It is true for you in the moment through what you know, feel, gravitate towards and look for.

How about is the  glass half full or half empty...  Either way you see it, you are right and it is true for you in that moment.   Some may say it doesn’t matter because it can be refilled.  Again, true for that person.

Just like our truths can be challenged, rediscovered, redirected and reenergized, so can the way we look at things, see things, discover things, react to things and participate in things.

If you are not comfortable and enjoy the/your truth that is currently forthcoming, you have complete choice in creating a new truth.  One that feels better on and in you in this very moment.

May you be aware of your truths.  Explore them.  Question them.  Feel them.  Do not make them right or wrong.  Just allow them to be.  'I want to keep this one.  I don't want to keep that one.  I want to create this experience anew because I am worth it and it allows me to experience truth through and in who I am now and who I want to be.'

What was your truth yesterday, in many ways, is not and doesn't have to be your truth today.

May you live in your truth of meeting your whole self, now; from where you are today and how you want to feel, perceive and walk through this moment, situation, and scenario in this current moment.

You have you.  May you trust that you do.  May you trust what you are feeling and what just may be 'knocking' at your soul through a whisper is the call you would do best to pay attention to and answer.

Get Your Peace On

Peace seems to be the subject that is most forthcoming in my world, and in this world, that I find myself sharing with others today.  It is what is coming up the most in everything and everyone I find myself connecting to and with.  

- Be easy, gentle and live in each moment [at a time] and not in all the endless possibilities of so many multiple moments.

- I walk forward in trust, truth and as myself.  God has it all figured out.  I will fear not to walk forward because He has me and I am love(d).    

- To be who we are from our most authentic place within ourselves could, possibly, release such huge pressure to be something other than what we are.  If we all lived in this self authenticity, we could create 'heaven on earth' or at the very least, peace within because we could choose to share the 'weight of the world' with each other.

As we allow peace within and support and value each other's true being-ness, peace in our world and with each other just happens.

May each of us try it.  We just may like it.

May you open up to your authentic self from the deepest and most loving place inside of you.  May you try it.  May you find that you like it a whole lot.  It just may be the reason for You being.

Owning, Loving, Believing in, Being, Sharing, Speaking, Living the uniqueness of You is the greatest and most awe-inspiring thing you can do.

May you let your heart beat to the 'song' that beats from and through everything that You are.

Your 'song' is your fusion.  It is your truth, your uniqueness, your love, your vulnerability, your compassion, your dreams, your creativity, your likes, your dislikes, your most free to be you symphony/harmony. 

Sky Kissed

Sun-kissed - Sunkist - Sun Kissed is common word/phrase.  It can mean that the sun is kissing your skin  to change its color.  It can mean that it warms your bones and being.  It can mean healing.  It can mean an orange.  It probably means a number of things to many people.

When I saw the sky, as portrayed in this picture, I thought and felt sky-kissed.  Mother Nature was kissing the sky.  The sky was sending love.  The sky was showing beauty.  The sky was offering peace, magic and positivity to connect to and enjoy.

How blessed that, especially when we look for same, we are blessed with beautiful moments, thoughts, feelings, experiences, awe and wonder.

Color and the transfusion of color can be felt and experienced in the 'power of awe' in so many ways depending on what we are open to see, experience, and feel.

I wish for you to see the beauty in moments that are right in front of you; within you and there for You.  So many opportunities happen when we open to, look for, connect to and believe in the simplicity within every day uplifting moments.
Sky-Kissed.   Wild and free.   Wild abandon.   Beautiful love.   Divine.    Colorful.   Magical.   Awesomely Authentic.   You.  

May You Free Yourself to ‘Just Be U’.