YOUR Favorite THINGS!

 

The SOUND of Music

Within YOU

Hushhhhhh

LISTEN

Tune IN

What makes your HEART

SING?

YOUR favorite THINGS

NOT Oprah’s list

NOT a celebrity’s

NOT what mass Marketing

SAYS should be your FAV

NOT your friend’s

NOT your family’s

YOUR

Favorite THINGS

List them

Silently

Letting them wash

Through YOU

Lift YOU

Fill YOU

Write them down

Putting pen to paper

And

FEEL

The JOY

The HAPPY

The FUN

The ENERGY

Bursting from the depths

 Of YOU

Taking you into

The profound EFFECT

Your FAVORITE

People

Places

THINGS

Have on YOU

RAISING

Your vibration

Higher

And

Higher

No matter WHAT!

In times of Challenge

In times of Ease

Remembering

WE ARE HERE

Alive

To ENJOY

To taste LIFE

To have FUN

TO Follow our HAPPY

Allowing the song

Within

To

SING

And

SING

And

SING

From the JOY

In LIVING

This SIMPLE

Practice

Of consciously

ReCALLing

IMAGES flashing

FEELINGS springing

Stoking inner FIRES:

EXCITEMENT

ENTHUSIASM

CONNECTION

Our FAVORITE things

Has a profound EFFECT

Lift OFF

From the depths

INVITE MORE

Integrate

Make time

Allow

YOUR FAVORITE THINGS

Into your life

EVERY DAY

FEED Your Self

The Pure GOODNESS

The TREASURES

Ever-present

Ours for the claiming

Weaving our favorite things

Into

The moments

The days

That make up our LIFE

Creates RICHness

Abundance KNOWN

Senses fully ENGAGED

PASSION

Ever-FREEing

INSPIRING

More life

More life

More life

Ohhhhh…

The POWER

Of

Our FAVORITE things!

The movie The Sound of Music is one of my all-time favorites and has been since I can remember as the whole family gathered around the TV to enjoy this once a year viewing. The scene where Julie Andrews sings My Favorite Things with the children to help calm their fears of the storms crashing in all around them reminds us of the power of the mind to return us to our sense of joy, to connect us to feelings that make us happy even in the midst of life’s challenges that most certainly come.  Tuning into the joy that is ever-present, centered in this Truth, we hold the paradox that everything is actually okay even when it doesn’t appear okay.  And from this place, we ground in certainty, standing in life rock solid at the level of Spirit and move through whatever we are facing feeling the vitality connected to our higher Self as we tap into the well of courage, peace, faith, love, hope and grace ever-springing from the depths of us.

This is not denying that there are things in life that absolutely suck.  This is not about burying our heads in the sand in avoidance afraid to face the dragons whose time has come to be slayed so we can be free and enter into more of life awaiting.  It is being mindful not to get stuck in the muck, finding harmony within as we acknowledge all we are feeling and do what we must to remember the beauty that exists simultaneously.  It is about not allowing our precious life to be swept away caught in the chaos of events that threaten to steal our joy, our hope, our passion for living.  It is about doing what we can to remember we are here, alive to follow our bliss, knowing this grand adventure come what may is a gift and our life, the greatest treasure we are given is our offering.  The choices we make affect whether we remain caged or set our Self free to taste the sweetness of life even in the midst of the bitterness.

The invitation this day and all your days is to weave your favorite people, places and things into your life – not just occasionally but every single day.  Exercise your power of choice, standing in a sense of Self that knows each of us is ultimately responsible for our own life.  Choose YOU!  Follow your joy, your happy, your peace, your passion!  Hushhhhh.  Go into the quiet.  Listen to your truest Self.  Wake up!  This ain’t no dress rehearsal – this is your life.  There is music within you yet to be sung.  What makes your heart sing?  What are your favorite things?  What makes you come alive?  List your favorite things singing as if your very life depends on it because it does.  You deserve a life that makes your heart sing and sing and sing all day long for the JOY of it, for the JOY of living fully engaged with your Spirit that is ever-free.

These are a few of my favorite things:  being with people I ABSOLUTELY LOVE doing nothing, anything and everything; drinking pot of coffee on a biting winter morning; feeling my kitties, Jefferson and Beauty purring thunderously on my chest and head as we snuggle in the bed having a love fest; communing with the stars as I lay on top of the houseboat; playing mermaid as I swim the back channel; experiencing music played and sung from the depths of another; dancing in my kitchen and in the car with the heater blasting and the sun roof wide open- OPENING my heart wider and wider…and so on and so on…It is SO ON…LIFE is ON like DONKEY KONG! HahahahahaJ