Pema Chodron advises approaching life as if it is one big experiment.  The hang up with this, at times, is that we grown ups can take our experiments extremely seriously and can be devastated by the results.

When I watch my 3 and 5 year old paint or dance or dig it is a different level of experimentation that I admire.  They truly have little attachment to the outcome and have little care for how they look to someone else in the process.  It’s not a show or a recital.  It’s not a piece to be framed or a paper to be disgusted by.  It is a process that is here to participate in and so they DO!  When it turns out all brown and torn from the mix of colors and aggressiveness of the artist, they toss it around and usually laugh at their attempt and move on.  When ‘it’ falls over as they build or they fall over as they dance, they continue on and or move on.

I will try, with more consistency, to approach life as an experiment with child-like enthusiasm and passion.  When it’s time to move on, I will move on.

When it’s time to laugh, let’s just laugh.

 

 

 

If you are placing judgement on a person or a place you are either in the past or the future.  This act of judgement is based on some sort of knowledge from your experiences thus far, or a fear, possibly even an assumption of what could be.  To be present is to discover a person, establishment, or experience for the first time, every time.  Let it teach over and over and over again, giving it full and curious energy.

This does not take away from a ‘gut feeling’, THAT is present moment.  Letting the original SOURCE in you express knowledge, protection and guidance is very different from a life lived through judgement.

…and so we choose which one we partner with for life… Present exploration with intuition  OR living in the past and future through judgement?

One of my favorite quotes within my adulthood, “Be Kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.”  Plato.

This can be seen as a negative view of life, but it is no secret that many humans suffer every day.  We all suffer and break at different periods in our journey.

The positive can come by the kindness that each of us is capable of for each other.  At any moment, we can see a behavior as a display of human reaction.  There are endless reactions out there to witness.  Our ACTION is to be kind.  The rest is not our concern.  The why, how, when, and who is not really important for the most important action that can become a lifestyle.

Be Kind.

Our bodies walk, sit and stand through our day with us.  They are actively participating in each conversation, surprise, hurt and smile.  Everything our brain, heart and gut feels our spine, core and chest holds.  It dances along all day to our overall emotional experience.  

When we have body awareness we can choose how that dance flows and how it feels throughout our minute, hour and day.  When we lack body awareness and stay constantly busy,  our body is much like a neglected friend.  This friend begins to complain and ‘check out’.  Our bodies atrophy in places and build tension and hurtful habits in order to be seen and heard.  It lives a sad dance along with our emotional roller coaster.  

Much like this tree, hunched over and frozen in it’s environment, our bodies harden to this neglect.  Body awareness, a flowing dance throughout your day can come when we simply begin to ask ourselves, ‘Why am sitting this way? How am I standing when I talk to this person?  How strong does my body feel when I walk into a room or when I stand to leave?’  

Begin a day stretching in bed and then let your body converse with you.  You can talk back by allowing for your own flowing adjustment, that is the conversation!!  Have a relationship, it is talking to you constantly, but lost in the buzz of electronics, traffic, family, TV and music.  We can show our bodies and the world a more confident, strong, positive person just by getting to know our own bodies again and changing our personal environment to warmth, acceptance and listening. 

 

2017 is here.

We are able to Chose,

Create,

Forge,

Discover our ways and patterns in a new way.

Peel away our layers and shed what is no longer serving us.

The only way you can do this is to

SIT

BREATHE

and LISTEN.

Then get up

rise with strength and lightness

 and DO.

Peace

Rushing is such a popular lifestyle and it causes many emotions and outcomes except JOY.  We are in a season of JOY and yet what many people end up doing at a professional level is…rushing.  Here are a few ways that we can live within this season, remember it and enjoy it:

• Use a calendar to note 2-3 ‘holiday prep needs’that can be happily accomplished each day for the next 10 days.
• When you find yourself in the midst of 1 item, find a rhythm and match your breath to your activity, ex: wrapping, addressing cards, baking or planning a holiday get together.
• With a deep breath, take something off of your list that is never enjoyable as every holiday season comes and goes.  Let it go and feel the relief of not obligating yourself to possible empty traditions or expectations.
• Now with a deep breath add something to that list that might feel unproductive, childish or whimsical and SOAK IT UP!  SWIM IN IT and SING ALONG!

Everything that is important and worthy, will be accomplished with a clear mind and a deep breath.

Photo by Rachael King

How often do we create a silent space and live there?

How often do we separate from comfort and just observe the comforts that Nature gives and takes away?

How often do we sit with what a greater Source created and feel the vibration of our gratitude?

How often is simply this enough?

STOP WORRYING

Right now

Stop

 

You’re welcome.

Happy Holidays to YOU and YOURS!

 

Post by:   Tracy Weaver, Life Coach, EFT Practitioner

Life is pulling a trick on us and I thought you should know. Almost everybody is goal oriented. We naturally want to attain our dreams, that sparkling jewel that will surely make us happy and fulfilled. So we start on the quest of attaining our goal or dream and finally, we attain it! Yes! Woohoo! That was amazing! Now what? Well, see that next goal over on that mountain top, just visible on the horizon? I really want to go for that one. Yeah, let’s go! Next journey forward, next quest! Wow, that was a lot of hard work, but look! We attained it! Hurray! Way to go, us! And about time! Hmmm, you know, on the way here I was looking around and I think I’m ready for a new…

Did you catch on? We’re never going to run out of goals, things we want to get or experience. Which means the goals aren’t really the point. Sure, they’re fun and satisfying for awhile, but after we attain them we’re always looking for the next thing to go after. We’re always on a journey, a quest, and the goals are the reason we keep questing forward. The quest is almost always a journey into some aspect of life we haven’t experienced before. I don’t know about you, but when I look back over my own journey, I never could have predicted that I would be where I am now. In fact, it’s been an interesting, expanding, amazing experience. I seem to find something in my life I don’t like very much, which automatically focuses me on what I would like instead. Another goal – and I’m off again!

So what’s the point? Well, we’re always on a journey, a quest. That’s where we spend all of our time. And, we’ve become more. We are not who we were when we were five, or twelve, or eighteen, or… We may be taking very carefully planned small steps or we may be jumping with quantum leaps, but we’re always becoming more. It’s the journey forward that seems to be the key. You know, just brainstorming here a bit, but we all have a choice here. Embrace the journey or fight it. Enjoy the adventure or fear the unknown. Happily expand, or vainly try to stay in our little boxes. Really enjoy the quest, the attainment of our dreams and goals, or pretend that nothing special is ever going to happen. People do choose both ways. You get to choose how you would most enjoy your personal journey. I can tell because I’ve seen people choose both, and that is their experience of their life. I have to admit, I really prefer being happy, feeling frisky and high energy, and so I know which way I’m choosing. How about you?