Friday, February 28, 2014

Every CHOICE Matters!


 

EVERY Choice Matters

Ain’t no TIME

To Worry

About

RIGHT Choices

OR

WRONG Choices

Just

KEEP Choosing

MOVING

Onward

Upward

MAKE the Next Choice

All CHOICES

Serve

US

Revealing

INFORMATION

Clarity

What we want

What we don’t

YOU

Don’t Like

WHERE

You are?

CHOOSE

Something

Else

DARE

To

CHOOSE

Something

Different

Choose YOU! 

Choose LOVE!

Every CHOICE Matters

Leading

US

Home

To

OUR Truest Self

Our Truest Life

FREEING

Us

From Cages

ALLOWING

Change

HONORING

Where we ARE

NOW

Exercising

OUR POWER

Of

Choice

Every Moment

KNOWING

WE MATTER

Our Choices

CREATE

Our Life

How we LIVE

Our DAYS

Is

How we LIVE

Our LIVES

We always have

CHOICES

Even

When we think

We don’t

LOCKED

In Fear

Choices

Made in

FEAR

Show US

Where we are

Bring in

Experiences

We NEED

All Necessary

To ALIGN Us

With

Our SOUL

Longing

To Usher

Us

Into

The LOVE

We are

Our Choices

Made in

LOVE

Fill

US

With

The POSSIBILITIES

Fuel

The PASSION

Awaken

The MIRACLES

Choice

By

Choice

Day

By

Day

Meeting LIFE

Meeting Our Self

EVERY Choice

PERFECT

Taking

US

Into the HEART

Of

The MATTER

Helping

Us

SEE

We MATTER

Igniting

Our FIRE

Our FIGHT

For

US

For

OUR Life

THIS Treasure

Filled

With

JOY

WONDER

MAGIC

GRACE

HOPE

Ours

For the CLAIMing

Choice

By

Choice.

It is liberating to know every choice matters, every choice brings information and clarity helping us move onward and upward on our path creating a life we absolutely love filled with joy, wonder, magic, grace and hope – all ours for the claiming.  It is essential to let go of the idea that there are right or wrong choices which can paralyze us from making any choice at all fearing mistakes, trying to live without falling down or getting in the muck.  Choice by choice whether we label them small or big, we make our way day by day living this adventure that can be messy, terrifying, ugly as well as easy, exhilarating and magnificent.  Exercising our power of choice, acknowledging where we are, refusing to wallow or stay stuck in attitudes, beliefs and situations that make us victims of our own life, we live free – we are the heroes of our own lives doing what we gotta’ do to open ourselves to the good that is sure to come rising from the ashes, ushering us into the miracles we are and life is ever-flowing, ever-shifting, leading us home to our truest Self and truest life. 

While attending a Jack Canfield seminar 20 years ago focusing on Self-esteem, he taught us a formula that changed my life.  E+R=O which is EVENTS + RESPONSE = OUTCOME.  Events will happen that we want to run from and pretend it never happened but all events bring opportunities no matter how chaotic, traumatic or devastating.  Grounding in this perspective takes us into our Spirit that allows us to walk in Faith, Trust and Certainty even in the midst of personal hells.  How we respond to the events that come our way moment by moment creates the outcome.  I am a huge believer that we mustn’t gloss over our feelings.  We are emotional beings and cutting off our feelings attempting to manage and control them shuts down an integral part of our humanness.  Events happen and we must allow our Self to have our personal experience around them feeling the fear that washes up, cursing the events that we want to wish away; and moving forward step by step with choices that lead us into the outcome that is evidence of amazing grace at work in all life events.    

The invitation this day is to be consciously aware that every choice matters.  Worry not about right or wrong choices.  Tune into how you feel when making a choice whether you feel empowered or disempowered.  Make choices that honor you, that free you, that let you know that you’ve got your own back and are in charge of your life.  If you don’t like where you are, dare to make a different choice and watch your life unfold.  Choices that seem small are actually huge because we generally give our power away in a million tiny ways that seem benign but actually violate the Truth of who we are and what we want.  Choose you.  Give your Self whatever you need. Don’t dismiss what you want.  You Matter and knowing this you will make choices that reflect this sense of worth.  Peace at the price of you is no peace at all.  Choose to love your Self and this love will pour into all of your relationships where it is easy to become resent and become bitter trying to be who they need or expect us to be.  Show them how to live free choice by choice day by day.

Thursday, February 27, 2014

The JOURNEY of a Day!


Ohhh…

The JOURNEY

Of

A Day

UNFOLDING

Waking

UP

Sideways

My mind

Foggy

My eyes

Heavy

I STAND

With

My Self

Where I Am

On

My OWN

Two Feet

My Body

Strong

Steady

Grounded

CONNECTED

To

The whole

Of

Creation

I step

INTO

The JOURNEY

Of

The Day

Consciously

Tuned

IN

To the GIFT

Of

The Day

Silently

Whispering

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

THANK YOU

Engaging

My HEART

Ever-GRATEFUL

Doing

What’s Next

Being

Where I Am

Without

JUDGMENT

No Worries

KNOWING

The Magic

Of

Life

Ever-shifting

The Emotional

WEATHER

Moving

Through

STORMS

One moment

Turbulent

Thunderous

Shaking

ME

One moment

CALM

Flowing

PEACEful

Trusting

IT IS ALL GOOD

Certain

The ONLY

Thing

That IS

Certain

LIFE IS EVER-CHANGING

Walking my PATH

Making my Way

The JOURNEY

Of a Day

So GRAND

So JOYful

SO GREAT

To be

ALIVE

Sipping my Coffee

IN

The Moment

Petting my kitties

In

The Moment

Getting a Text

That says

I LOVE YOU!

Receiving

The LOVE

In

The Moment

With

AWE

And

Gratitude

RIDING

The Waves

FREE

From

Conditions

Needing LIFE

TO BE

OTHER

Than IT is

The POWER

In the

MOMENT

Being PRESENT

To The BEAUTY

In

The JOURNEY

Of a Day

AMAZING GRACE

Blows

AWAY

The Cobwebs

PARTS

The Seas

MOVES

The Mountains

BRINGS

The Sunshine

LOVE

LOVE

LOVE

The JOURNEY

Of a Day

And

DAY

By

DAY

Create

A LIFE

You LOVE

A Miraculous

ADVENTURE

That

LIVES ON

Your

TREASURE

Placed

In the

HEARTS

Of

Generations

To COME.

At this point in my life, I get amused by the journey of a day ever-unfolding.  There are plans I make and the day always takes me into surprises – unexpected experiences that wash up in the moments taking me where I could not and would not have planned.  And my ability to be present to it all fills me with awe at the ever-flowing ease I live in that makes life so damn sweet even in the midst of the bitter.  Freedom lies in not placing conditions on my Self or on the events.  I simply trust:  It is ALL Good.  Even when I wake up walking sideways with heavy eyes and a foggy brain, my grateful heart can only sing a song of love echoing Thank you… Thank you…Thank you…all day come what may.  My intention to create a life I love fiercely fuels me, holds me steady fortified by Truth, grounded in Faith, Trust and Certainty, moment by moment, day by day understanding this is the greatest legacy, the truest treasure I place in the hearts of generations to come.

Observing the emotional weather instead of diving into the storm floundering and drowning – overwhelmed by life – we make space for the shift.  Waves of emotions roll in and they roll out like the tides ebbing and flowing.  I am certain that the only thing certain is Life is ever-changing.  We are ever-changing.  The journey of a day reveals this again and again if we are willing to witness the orchestration of the day mining for the gold, gathering the gifts ever-present in that which we would never wish for and that which brings the joy.  Consciously allowing whatever comes liberates us from our minds that lock us into fixed ideas of how life should be or how we should be.    

The invitation this day is to observe your Self with complete compassion, loving your Self up in moments of crazy and moments of grace – giving your Self the human hall pass instead of trying to walk on water.  Witness your Self, the journey of a day delighting in the discovery of you – what trips your trigger?  What pisses you off?  What sends you into a tailspin?  What are your saving graces?  What do you have control over and what are you trying to control that is beyond your control?  Do you laugh?  Can you find your way to the humor in situations that arise?  Are you kind and patient with your Self?  Are you breathing into the whole of your body or is stress gripping your breath keeping it at your throat?  Do you feel grateful or resentful?  Do you feel free or stuck?  Do you dare to make choices that honor you?  creating a life you absolutely love, understanding how you spend your day is how you spend your life.  Journey with joy this day!  Keep your heart light through the power of laughter – be  amused by your personal odyssey ever-guiding, leading you home to the love you are, the beauty that is, the peace that lies within you and the joy in living that makes life so rich.