Courteous exchanges are typically appreciated, though sometimes unnoticed. When someone offers you a courtesy in passing, do you take time to appreciate politeness? Might as well! It’s an occurance that can be the breeding ground for gratitude and kindness. Take that sentiment and spread it around generously!!
It’s the weekend! For a lot of people this is the main time they unwind. If you’re around without much planned and looking for some super G-rated fun, or even if you’re stuffed to the gills with acivity after activity, go ahead and stop that for a few minutes to play a guessing game with an open minded buddy. 😊 Think of a color. See the color in your mind and hold the vision for a while. Ask your friend to guess the color. You may be surprised at how accurate you are in guessing! Go with your first instinct. Don’t second guess! You’re simply not allowed! If it gets old fast because your telepathic skills are already honed to a T, make scrunchy faces into your camera. That’s fun for at least two minutes. If you come up with something else, I’d love to know about it. 💕
Remember to make time for fun and Happy Weekend Everyone!!
Love can be the root of your breath. Love can be the driving intention behind your responses to others. Love can guide you in service for the community. In whatever guise Love appears, I hope you follow. Go with the passions, the impulses, and your internal knowing to lend yourself as a force for LOVE.
There are various situations that could sit you flat on the rear while you find yourself picking up the pieces of your life to examine the ways in which you may put them back together.
Before you go on that journey of repair you are absolutely vulnerable, exposed yet seeing no one and showing those who may pass nothing; you are still. You are removed from yourself. You are everything you were and everything you will become while skimming along the recognition of your dispensability and your indispensability. You feel your vitality hovering at it’s meekest pulse before it all falls into a mass of placated pieces.
It could be that you feign a crack free exterior for some time, not wanting to be broken. However, if you can accept brokenness and make peace with the pieces in whatever manner they are presenting, mending can begin to happen.
With time, strength will come to take necessary action in gathering the parts you want to rebuild. If you air on the side of optimism, you may be fortunate enough to find that being broken can mean being opened.
Being broken can mean holding unidentified space that allows you to shape what will be.
Being broken can mean a greater capacity for understanding others.
Being broken can be breathtakingly beautiful at times, if within the open space you let deep, cleansing inhalation stretch down into your toes with the warmth of light and love. The kind of breathing that heals and nurtures you.
There is a Japanese art form where potters repair broken pieces or sometimes purposefully break pieces and fill the cracks with lacquer and gold powder. It is called kintsukuroi or kintsugi. The belief is that the object is more beautiful for having been broken. The gold traces the history, celebrating the story as it highlights places where the pieces have rejoined to become whole again.
“Expansion” by Paige Bradley is currently housed in a private collection (and while not a traditional example of kuntsukuroi, feels fitting for the purpose of this post). You can learn more about her work at http://www.paigebradley.com
Affirmation:
We are all golden links in the chain of good. I see the light of others shining brightly within them. I honor our likeness and our connection.
Seeing yourself and others in this way will work to change you from the inside out if you’ve been in doubt of the good in our world. Look for goodness, be kindness, and you will find it is thriving.
Try saying this out loud for an energy boost this week. Repeat as often as your heart desires:
My life keeps bringing things that are better and better. Every pathway unfolding presents a gift unexpected in it’s rich contribution and nourishment. It feels as if goodness is reaching for me through the hearts of others. I can see love and kindness reflected in the eyes of those interacting with me now. I am fully aware of and grateful for these blessings as well as those to come!
A feel good alternative that’s natural and totally free of charge. It will get you above the clouds and into the clear sky! (Providing that you believe the words… that ingredient must come from your own supply.)
Have you ever had someone do something kind for you but feel strange about the reception? I currently have two thoughts on why this may be:
1. You’re out of practice in receiving.
2. The intention of the giver was off.
When we offer an act of kindness, it is important that the act come from a want to nurture, uplift, or assist another human instead of from a need for personal gratification or control of a situation. Anyone who is sensitive to the motivations of others will feel the source, and the action will take on the energy of the motivation instead of the outward appearance of kindness.
If the issue is the first suggestion, a change in awareness and opening up to receive may help. Sometimes people offer to help out of obligation, but more often than not if someone is offering to help you – they want to! You should let them! Take it as an opportunity to practice the art of graceful acceptance and gratitude.
I am progressively feeling the importance and worth of the words:
Trust. Love. Give.
And for the purpose of assuming all the parts of a balanced cycle: Receive!
Trust yourself to make the right decision. There is no wrong decision, only what is happening and how you respond which will lead to what you experience next. If you can get into a rhythm of trusting yourself, decision making won’t be a daunting task. You may even begin to see the existence of options in a welcoming light.
“Trust is letting go of needing to know all the details before you open your heart.” -Unknown
I have felt lucky over the summer for coming across a lot of feathers. About a month ago I watched a beautiful gray feather float down from the sky in a grocery store parking lot. It landed next to me. Since that moment I have been attuned to feathers. When I come across one now, I feel as if I’ve encountered a treasure. Is this a treasure? I suppose that’s in the eye of the beholder. The way you perceive is ultimately up to you. You can see lack or you can see plenty. This mindset will follow you in every encounter all day long, as mindsets tend to do.
I wonder now, how many times feathers have been in my peripheral and I’ve overlooked them… Not any more!
My kids are in on the game too. Last week my daughter found a feather on the playground at recess and saved it in her pocket to give me after school. Two days later my son brought one inside that he found while sweeping the entry path to our home. I’d say the look on their faces in delivery and the full heart I felt in receiving these tokens definitely puts feathers (or anything you tune in to) in the realm of treasures!
“Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune in to.” -Wayne Dyer
Presence and Positivity 