Open/Expand

May you open up to everything that is you; without judgment, in complete vulnerability knowing you have you, through the love that is you(rs).

When we expand ('think expansion') and not contract, we allow our bodies and minds to breathe; emotions and circulation to flow; and dreams and desires to be created from deep within; out into our lives.

Letting the life that is inside of ourselves yet to be lived -- come forth through our openness, innate knowing with an open invitation for You to happen just may be the greatest gift we can offer in our lifetime.  

The power of You...

The ‘power of now’...

The power that empowers us...

It is all divine.

When we are open, we allow the divinity (higher power) that is within us to work for us and with us.

Are you feeling it....   I hope so.  

All my love.

May you let the genuineness and awesomeness of You flow through(out) You and everything you touch, encounter, experience, share and live.  

Five of Diamonds

I saw where someone had pulled up the "Six of Clubs" [thank you] from one of my past, long ago posts.  It reminded me that I used to think of a card and then look up the meaning.  It was fun if nothing else.  And, it often coincided in some way with my experience of what was happening.

So, I decided to think of a card and immediately the five of diamonds came to my mind.  I looked it up and this is what it read...

"The Five of Diamonds card shows reconciliation and positive relationships. In its negative aspects, this card relates to material worries and anxiety. Generally speaking, the Five of Diamonds is a good omen that announces a solution to a problem."

Seems, in many ways, apropos for me.  Relationships are different and deeper for me with everyone staying in and finding new ways of being.  Many of us are looking for paper products and we are living in a state of 'differentness' and it can very easily bring up worry and anxiety.  I also know that this will all work itself through, albeit much pain and angst; and solutions along with extreme creativity are being discovered and brought forth.

It is a time of great change; great pains; great loss; and whole new ways of being.  

May you feel your own deep love and let it fill every cell in your body and mind.  May you let the your spirit fly free.   May you let your soul, filled with innate wisdom, keep guiding you through and back home to the basics of being (you).  

Perhaps, we are being fine-tuned by way of life, living, ourselves, our relationships, materialism, emotions, the wisdom of simplicity and our beautiful and forgiving Earth as well...  

Buddha Supermoon

"This full Moon corresponds to Vesak, also known as Buddha Purnima, a holiday observed by Buddhists across Asia. Sometimes informally called "Buddha's Birthday," it commemorates the birth, enlightenment, and death of Gautama Buddha. The actual date of Vesak varies depending upon the calendar in use in the particular country or region, but this year for most areas it falls on or near the day of this full Moon."  unknown

This will be the fourth and last Supermoon of 2020.

May you open to the full ‘Zen’ within you.   Your inner calm, your beingness, your breath.   May you sit in awareness with non-judgment of all that is You.   

May your breath connect you to the place within you wherein your solace lies.

Life

"There must be another life she thought, sinking back into her chair, exasperated.  Not in dreams; but here and now, in this room, with living people.  She felt as if she were standing on the edge of a precipice with her hair blown back; she was about to grasp something that just evaded her.  There must be another life, here and now, she repeated.  This is too short, too broken.  We know nothing, even about ourselves."  Virginia Woolf

This is life now.  We are living it, experiencing it, being it, feeling it and creating with it.  This is life.  All that we have experienced and will experience.  Life.

May we all be open to what is And what is not.  Who we are And who we are not.  What we want to become And what we want to leave behind.  

May you embrace your true self; your true feelings.  Be best friends with, your greatest supporter of, your life as it is.  Loving the fun, beautiful and precious life is easy.  Love the not so easy, the difficult, the hurtful.  By loving it, I mean to allow yourself to respond in the best way you know how and being here totally in your truth loving yourself.

It surely doesn't hurt to try.  It may turn out to be one of the greatest gifts you give yourself (and others) in this; that is your life(time).   

Giraffe

I have been seeing giraffes; noticing giraffes a lot lately.  I went to Ted Andrews’ book, “Animal Speak” and this is what I read...

 Giraffe

"... are you saying things you shouldn't?  Are you not saying things that you should?  Are you allowing others to speak inappropriately or allowing their words to affect yourself?  If a giraffe has come into your life, ask yourself some important questions.  Are you seeing what is ahead of you?  Are you afraid to look ahead?  Are you seeing other people's perspective?  Do you allow other's refusal to see your own perspective affect your life?  Are you seeing the consequences of your thoughts, words and deeds?  

Are you resisting moving into new areas you see for yourself?  Are you resisting change?  Are you afraid of the future?  The giraffe can show you the future and how best to move toward it.  When running, the legs and the neck of the giraffe work together, reminding us that it is not enough to see the future, but you must move toward it as well.  

With the giraffe, there are actually three horns.  The third actually looks more like a lump under the skin, but it is located just above the eyes.  This placement is very significant as this is the area of the body associated with the third or inner eye--the seat of higher intuition.  This only serves to reinforce the farsighted perception that the giraffe and its energies can awaken within you."

Ok.  So, I do not really understand or connect easily with much of this.  Ha. 

I like the third eye perspective.  It means to me a sense of awakening and enlightenment.  An awareness that can go beyond the physical and include the spiritual beingness of living this human life.  An increase in foresight which is to see and understand the bigger picture from what is happening in the now.  I do not know the future but I believe I am living as such for it to happen as I feel it...  

I like the idea of listening to my own perspective when all is said and done.  When I've gathered information, connected to my feelings and hearing what other's have learned and experienced, I still choose my way to do me.  

I am resisting 'doing'.   I've been resisting it for a long time.  I am open to change and believe in change.  I believe that when my time to do is now, I will 'do'; and I will do it brilliantly.  In the meantime, I am open to learn more about myself; about life; about forgiveness; about listening; about how I am 'touched' and how I 'touch' others.  I am open to let my love grow, become, be and be experienced.  The doing part will happen.  

For me, it is the professional doing that is not so available to me.  For me, the doing me; living my truth; allowing my feelings; sharing, helping and supporting is on. 

I tire easily.  I do fear professionalism and scleroderma together at this juncture of my life.  And, I know it is meant to happen.  I know as it is meant to happen, nothing will stop it.  I foresee it happening.  I feel it happening.  I feel myself moving towards it.  When the time is here, I am ready.  

My legs and my neck, which is the bridge between my heart and my mind, will run together in unison and step firmly on the earth and live the next chapter of my life feeling safe, involved, happy and together; with you.  All of us open to living our best selves.  

For now, I stand in my vulnerability, my truth, my vision and my innerness creating the opportunity to live all that is yet inside of me to live.. out.

May you be true to you.  See, feel, know and breathe into your dream(s).  Into what you feel inside of you.  May you be aware, mindful and open to who you are and what you want to do, share, be and live.

Let your heart and your mind work in unison through everything that is You.

You are beautiful, unique and your perspective matters.  May you let it be so.  Live through what you know and feel.  Own what you want and need to say.  Believe what your heart and mind working together tells you.  Live all that is inside of you out; as it comes up for you. 

Your energy touches up to the sky and down into the earth.  You are this beautiful and this powerful.  Connect and just let You be so.

Who Are You

I was once asked who I was without the titles of life coach, personal trainer, sister, wife, woman, etc.    How interesting that was for me.   

Who am I without my ‘titles’...

I am a loving, caring, likes to laugh and share life person who is happiest when I allow the spirit of me to live free and spontaneously.    

Do you know who you are underneath and/or without your titles...   Do you appreciate this you...

May you appreciate yourself.   All of your selves.   Ha!

Who do you appreciate?   Y O U
  Heck yes You do....    

Trauma

"The brain becomes somewhat disorganized and overwhelmed because of the trauma, while the body goes into a survival mode and shuts down the higher reasoning and language structures of the brain. The result of the metabolic shutdown is a profound imprinted stress response.“    Google

It is known that trauma and stress are two major reasons/catalysts for dis-ease and change.  

I used to volunteer for hospice and there were amazing classes, lectures, projects and conferences that were mandatory before one could do the actual work and connect with the actively dying/transitioning person and their families.  

We were taught that the loss of a loved one; moving; divorce, illness and loss of a job were the top five stressors of all time.   

They all have physical, emotional and spiritual consequences and it certainly can change who we are and our lives.  

I would say war, hostility, and a pandemic also affect us as well.   

We are all affected, react and process differently.   However, no one is immune.   I believe even those who may not understand, realize and/or fully participate or are fully impacted, if these situations are around us or happening to people we love and/or even know, we are touched.  

Our spirits, hearts, minds and bodies can feel the energy of same.  Each cell vibrates to the energy of what they sense.    

Cells sense and respond to thoughts, auras, feelings and situations whether they are distant and subtle or right in our face and happening directly to us.    

This surely can be considered a traumatic time.   

May you be extra kind on yourself.  

May you love yourself extra.  

May you judge yourself less. 

May you be true to yourself. 

May you just be.  

May you lovingly meet yourself where you are at.   

May you let your gentle strength lift, guide and allow you to be, do, feel, speak all that it is inside of you out.   

Namaste beautiful one.  

No one knows and has experienced life and is experiencing life 100% how you do.    With this awareness, may you support yourself; support others, to journey through and on in our own best way(s).   Individually, together may we create a world that can only come from and through trauma.  

Let there be peace, love, truth, compassion and support in our world and let it begin with Me...   with You...  with Us.  

Thank You.