For the weekend ahead, choose a person you care about. Visualize the person surrounded by your blessings and glowing light. Pay attention to their presence, words, and actions. Notice if there’s a stronger connection or understanding after dedicating yourself to their wellbeing in this way.
“I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
I can’t think of a more positive way to perceive failure. There is so much to learn from trying different ideas and finding new ways to approach creativity, exchanges in relationships, and even understanding ourselves. We all fail and we all make mistakes. What counts most is what we learn and how we choose to change. Here’s to perceiving failures, in whatever form they present, as stepping stones to learning!
Think about the language you use with topics and towards others and that thread of thought that constantly runs in your mind. What is given life within you and then communicated to others? Watch yourself for self defeating lingo and behaviors. If you’re not aware, you may find yourself draining the life from what you love and what loves you.
Give yourself permission to have full presence with the gifts of life. You don’t have to cut yourself off from people or things thinking you do not deserve them or that you must have done something in particular to have them. You can readily accept what is before you. It is waiting to be recognized and held with gratitude.
And more than being grateful – you can breathe a steady flow of life into what you love, and do it emphatically! The whole universe will thank you for allowing love to work through you this way!
Part 2 – Now find time with a young person AND an animal at the same time! You will be flooded with The Moment as well as JOY. Neither of these creatures can help it! They haven’t learned our bad habits yet and so we can learn from them. We can emulate their natural desire for pure joy in an interaction. Happy DAY!
Presence. This Moment. Breathing and letting go of past and future. Who is better at this than children! If you have kids in your life, take 10 minutes and let their approach sweep you up and teach you about NOW. No matter their life circumstances, their health, their families or their tomorrow they find sweetness and fascination in tiny moments. So turn your phone off, get away from a clock and engage with a little human. They have a lifestyle to share with you.
Happy Wishes Everyone!
Jess and I have chatted a lot over the last week about showing up for yourself. We hope you will focus on the most positive way you can be there for what’s in your best interest. Can you carve out time to walk, swim, bike, stretch, or meditate? Can you speak kindly to yourself? Can you smile in the mirror? Can you be present with your meals? Can you say to yourself that you are important enough to make time to do the things that will ultimately lead you to feeling better? Can you be accountable for showing up and loving yourself?
Starting small is perfect and practicing yourself into a larger habit will come easily with little increments!
A post of support for the sensitive soul:
I would like to suggest that there is no such thing as too sensitive, only the level of sensitivity that suits you. To whatever degree you find yourself sensing and responding to the world around you, this point of experience must be your current intersection with need. If the sensitivity is excruciating for you, perhaps the need is to awaken to your own power in releasing yourself from the emotional state, however, if the sensitivity level that matches you makes another person uncomfortable let us say that this is not your issue. If you find yourself hearing, “you are too sensitive”, I hope you will own your gift in living with the fullness of the senses that are yours for this lifetime. Please tell me why you are here if not to sense and respond to this world?
If you, like me, seem to feel every emotion magnified – can you find the delightful offering in this? Sure, it can have a downside but there is also an incredible upside when you learn to turn the tides as they ride in to you. In valuing yourself and the experience you are having through knowing your inherent worth and the worth of what life shares with you, you can find healthy outlets through the senses. Welcome the gifts of your soul to find a home in your life. The circumstances that match your level of sensitivity through sameness or contrasting polarities will be drawn to you!
I have a few strange ways that help with reusing the packaging that common household items come in…. It’s simple, I just put specific containers of sacks into a drawer for projects I know are coming within a few weeks.
Sheets, pillow cases and sometimes toys or gift wrapped present from AMAZON come in little sewn bags with either Velcro or a draw strong cord. I like to….
This probably show how eclectic my life is…but there you have it. Some ways I reuse packaging!
It is a choice…how you see the details of your life.
A choice to see it for good or for harm. To see it as an obstacle to struggle through or a lesson you are flowing through.
It is a choice…to be offended, hurt, even devastated or to be humbled, grateful and inspired.
There is no definite wrong or right at all times. Both can be experienced and both are necessary in different times.
Just remember, it is a choice.
Seeking fulfillment outside of yourself is a lively game, that has many of us captured in it’s allure for the majority of our time. We seek fulfillment in our work, defining and inflating the sense of self with our accomplishments. We look for it in physical pleasure, through technology, games, and movies. Sometimes we partake in over indulgences with food, drink, and other vices because it helps to numb the emptiness we feel. We associate this emptiness with an outside need. We need other people and things to fill it up or distract us from this void we feel inside. There are so many distractions that we see as normal in our culture.
There is nothing outside of you that can satisfy you indefinitely. You will grow bored with what you have and you will seek more or you will seek different.
Everything you need to feel fulfilled is inside of you. It’s hidden under the layers of distractions that have become the standard in your life. A quiet space with dedicated focus on deep breathing and connecting to your inner self will lead you to a greater contentment and peacefulness than anything you will find outside of yourself.
The love, the sense of wholeness, the feelings of contentment are all waiting there for you to uncover…
Presence and Positivity 