CALLing Me Home

The lake gods

The energies of Lake Cumberland

CALLing me home

The PULL undeniable

Familiar

Known

Inviting me to rest

Within her

Within my Self

Inspiring me to play

In her chilly waters

In her invisible forces

Churning up new ideas

Washing away what must go

Stirring

Stoking

Soothing

Invigorating

Healing

MAGIC!

An Eagle

Soared right above me

Stealing my breath

Ahhhhh!

Ushering me into higher realms

Awakening new vision

Stretching me

Discovering more of My Self

Perching in my soul

Where he eternally resides

Flying me into the great unknown

Mystically expanding me

Mind, body, heart & soul

MIRACULOUS!

The stars greeted me

As night fell

Showering

Multiplying

Morphing

Bubbling

Pulsing through me

Hope

Peace

Joy

Love

Grace

GLORIOUS!

Communing

Swirling

Connecting

Illuminating  

Reminding me:

WE ARE MADE OF STARS!

Lighting the way

Moment by moment

Breath by breath

As I laid there

Fully engaged

As I explored

Corridors within

Ready to open

Welcoming me home

The morning comes

Walking onto the back of the boat

I meet this day

Still & dark

No sign of light

Gratefully present to what “is”

A fish jumps from the waters

Delighting me in the surprise

Mirroring possibilities

Urging me on

 To BELIEVE!

To keep swimming up stream

Come what may

Through currents & waves

But don’t forget I too can JUMP!

Higher than I think I can…

ALL of this sweetness

From daring to answer the CALL!

 

The invitation this day is to tune in and listen to that sweet song calling you home, to your truest Self, your Self beyond the conditions, the circumstances, the chaos and the roles.  Grab a blanket and sit outside.  Lock yourself in the bathroom.  Go to a sacred place within the world, within your Self.  Find rest.  Make it safe to explore, to discover, to want, to dream, to come alive in the knowing there is MORE, there is always more.  Magic!  Glorious! Miraculous!  Believe IN THE BEAUTY that you are and dare to taste the abiding sweetness. 

The Power of ONE New Thought

 

A thought

We have never had before

A Sacred knowing

Springs up

Downloads

Changing EVERYTHING

Blowing open

The doors within our minds

We didn’t know existed

Sending us

Into new worlds within

Exploring

Excavating

Stripping away

Making space

Inspiring higher visions

Rewiring us:

Mind, body, heart & soul

Ushering us into more life

Flooding us with excitement

As we are not the same

There is a bell within ringing

Awakening the Giant

Hatching potentials once dormant

Possibilities emerge

Shooting stars launching from the depths of us

Profoundly aware

AWEstruck

That life ain’t over till it’s over

Seeing the world through limitlessness

 Wonder

Curiosity

True freedom

Liberation

Oh, the power of ONE new thought!

Words and thoughts dance in our minds throughout our days without ceasing.  Most of our thoughts are habitual playing out over and over as we enter our routines, doing what we do, living our lives.  But the power of one new thought changes everything!  These downloads of wisdom are energetically distinct and come forward to gift us, blowing open doors within our minds, dropping us into new worlds where we experience higher visions for our life that flood us with excitement.  Once the thought rings the bell within it cannot be unrung, it cannot be silenced as the giant is awakened and potentials once dormant begin to sing:  mind, body, heart and soul.  We do have choices!  We can pretend everything is the same fearing the changes and the unknowns in the opportunities.  We can stifle the shooting stars launching from the depths of us but there is no rest in this only certain death, cutting our Self off from the flow of life while breath still pulses through our bodies; we are here to come alive, to birth more and more of our Self, to live the passion within that sacred knowings fuel.

The resonance of new thoughts, echoing truths like an alarm letting us know it is time to explore: What’s next? The something more we have always known existed but couldn’t put our finger on is calling us.  Our soul’s schedule in the unfolding of our human adventure is never rational and usually not convenient as the landslide of what was converges with all that is and all that is to come if we dare to flow with life – to welcome the new worlds within ready to sing. 

5 months ago today, I moved to Nashville, Tennessee which was nothing I had planned and there was no reason I could offer other than I knew with all of me that this is what was next.  There was that moment when new thoughts flooded me awakening me as I walked into my home, a home I absolutely loved in Brownsburg, Indiana:  This dream has been lived!  You will wither in the comforts of this home and this life.  If you keep plugging your Self into what “was”, you will never get to enjoy all that is to come.  You are here to live the passion – life as an adventure.  Cut this loose.  Free your Self!  I laid there on the hardwood floor weeping tears for this offering of grace and for the life that had been, all the dreams realized that had led me into that moment.

My soul is here to live lifetimes within my lifetime.  I know this!  It graciously rewired me with thoughts and ushered me in to this new lifetime where I am alive in ways I have never been and could never have been if it weren’t for all the life lived before and I know there is more to come – there is always more to come as life is a constant cycle of letting go and reaching for more.

The invitation this day and this lifetime is to tune in and listen to the higher wisdom making itself known through new thoughts that contain the power to change everything!  These thoughts wash up, calming us with soothing truths and guidance that stills the chaos of life and takes us out of the drama and noise.  They are energizing as we come alive with excitement and enthusiasm.  And they scare the shit out of us as we fear the unknown and want comforts even when they are dulling life, choking us and we are withering away day by day.  Whatever we choose to do with the new thoughts, these sacred knowings is up to each of us; and standing in the truth:  This is our life!  It belongs to each of us as individuals and each of us has choices liberates us from getting caught in the shoulds and judging our choices right or wrong, good or bad, positive or negative.  No matter what you choose and regardless of the circumstances, at any given moment, commit to choosing thoughts that free you not cage you!  Judgment cages.  Self-love and compassion frees.       

It is ALL Living!

What if you operated

From the belief:

It is ALL living!?

Collecting experiences

Extracting the wisdom

Gathering stories

Allowing them to inform

Knowing we can’t possibly Fu#% this life up

We can do stupid crap

And we all have & will

That kicks our asses

But

Opportunity is always KNOCKing

As every misstep

Every mistake

Is an invitation

To reflect

To wake up

Life unfolding

Takes us deeper into our Self

Leads us to our truest life

Examining what’s behind our choices

Understanding we do “things”

That pushes life away

Making no sense

But we do them anyway

We do things

That opens the flow of life

Beyond reason

And we wonder how we got here

It matters not

If we judge them

Good or bad

Right or wrong

Positive or negative

It is crucial that we stand in the Truth

We don’t do things that don’t serve us

We don’t!

It ALL serves!

Putting down the bat

Showering our Self with compassion

Giving our Self the human hall pass

Laughing at our Self:  “SILLY ME!?”

We make it safe

To hold the magnifying glass

Up to our Self

What are my choices trying to tell me?

What beliefs are driving me off the cliff?

What do I really want & need?

What is killing my spirit?

What makes me come alive?

And listening with our inner ear

Tuning in to the Higher wisdom within

Living the answers

Giving our Self space

Mind, body, heart & soul

Not demanding the quick fix

Letting the roots be exposed

Leaning in to all we are FEELing

Riding the flood of emotions

Expressing wildly & rawly

In order to FREE us  

Neutralizing the energy

With assuring words:

“It is ALL living!”

It’s okay

Even when it doesn’t feel okay

Even when our belief system

Hijacks our mind

With the cultural addiction to perfection

Shaming our Self

Making our Self villains

Drowning in Guilt

Holding our Self to impossible standards

Perpetuating not-enoughness

Cutting out the humanness

So we never get to touch

The depths of life experiences

Right here

Right now

So damn sweet

 So damn bitter

So magnificent

So horrifying

WE become Prisoners

Caged by shame & guilt

We never know true FREEdom

That allows us to soar

With the winds

Ever-shifting

Ever-changing

Revealing miracle after miracle

Breath by magic breath

Opening

Expanding

Contracting

Birthing

Dying

Revealing more

Connected to our Self

Connected to others

Connected to all of Creation

Poetic

Brilliant

Magnificent

BeautyFULL

It is ALL living!

It is.

(I promise.)

Trying to STOP Life

We have ALL done it

And will do it again

It is human nature

To think we can STOP life

By staying in bed

Pulling the covers over our heads

Burying our heads in the sand

Anesthetizing our Self

With our favorite NUMBing agents

Shielding our Self

Creating a protective barrier

Because we simply

Cannot bear for life to touch us

We can’t take it

The weight of the world

Bringing us to our knees

Onto our bellies

Running for shelter

Hibernating in caves

Checking OUT

We are certain that we were given more

Than our fair share of crap

And

Want to punch out

Those who say stupid shit like

“God will never give you more than you can handle!”

But

Trying to STOP life

Is like trying to stop a moving train

It simply is NOT possible

Try as we might

Throwing our Self on the tracks

Waving the white flag

Trying to STOP life

Puts our power in perspective

And from this higher view

We see

The humor in our insanity

Doing the same things over and over

Expecting different results

And

We see

The necessity

Testing life

Pushing the emergency button

Taking a detour

But unable to DERAIL

This grand adventure that is LIFE

As it goes on and on and on

With or without our consent

Whether we go on strike

Whether we are shouting: BRING IT ON!

And

Even with the covers pulled over our heads

Even with our heads buried in the sand

Even anesthetized by our favorite numbing agents

We are still dancing with life

Breath by magical breath

Ever-connected.

 

I accidentally hit the emergency button on the elevator in my condo building with my over-sized reusable bag loaded down with groceries.  I was pressing the 16^th floor button when boom! the alarm began to sound and the concierge began to nervously ask me:  What’s the emergency?!  I assured him that it was just another Lucille Ball moment in my life and apologized laughing my ass off because my life is truly my favorite comedy and I could never make up all this crap that happens – I am not that clever or as funny as life itself is.

As I walked into my condo, I thought about how many times in my life I had wanted to hit the emergency button thinking that I had the power to stop life, trying my best to put it on hold until I could catch up to it or muster the strength and courage to deal with what was before me.  Wishing my life away, unable to see that what was right in front of me was there to show me beliefs that held me hostage, to reveal the scripts that needed revised and rewritten, to remind me of all that lies within so I could flow with life again.  But in those gripping moments of overwhelm that sucked the life out of me, I did what I knew how to do and it served me; finding safety in bed with the covers pulled over, burying my head in the sand pretending not to know what I knew, numbing out with food, alcohol, drugs, work, busyness until I recognized that life was going on, moving forward and I wanted to go with it instead of fighting against it.

Taking responsibility for my life, acknowledging there ain’t nothin’ fair about life, adopting the saying that makes me laugh out loud:  what the fu$% does fair have to do with life!, giving the villains in my life a human hall pass which freed me from the blame game and all the tethers to the past dramas that couldn’t be undone, I got clear about the life I wanted to create.  The flow of life returned allowing me to love life with no conditions; and in this space, the jolts and hard knocks are absorbed by an inner fortification where I can stand fully engaged in life come what may.  The world can crumble around me and I can rest in the eternal home within my Self, ever-connected to the soul force of the universe in a way I didn’t know was possible.  True freedom!

The invitation this day and this lifetime is to compassionately observe your Self and how you try to stop life.  This isn’t about labeling your Self as a problem that needs fixed or demanding that you never try to stop life again feeling ashamed of natural responses and purely human behaviors.  With the baseball bat tucked away in the garage next to the tennis racket, stand with your Self gently.  Reflect on the choices without making them good or bad, right or wrong, positive or negative.  Understand that each choice has served you and give thanks for them.  From this nourishing space of Self-care, truth will safely rise to the surface so you can consciously make choices that free you, honor you and create a life you absolutely love come what may.     

RECEIVing Compliments

Good WISHES

PRAISES sung

Respect GIVEN

APPRECIATION showered

LET IT IN!

Stop

Pause

Stand there in the moment

Receive the offering

The love

The affirmations

The generosity

Others bestow on you

Receiving is as essential as giving

As life is an exchange of energy

Forget the all you have been taught

False-modesty

False-humility

Deflecting the Beauty you are

And

Just say:

THANK YOU!

(As you sip in the nourishing words)

Giving thanks for the gift you are

How wonderful it is to be YOU

LIFE expressing uniquely as YOU

And from this knowing

You see the Beauty in all life

As it expresses uniquely through others

And through the whole of the universe

Receiving compliments, sipping them in, allowing the words of praise to touch us and remind us of the beauty of our life is divine medicine nourishing us and awakening us to how we uniquely show up in the world day in and day out.  Most of us have been taught to deflect compliments, saying self-deprecating things, squelching the generous offering and not allowing the magic of the affirming words to pierce our heart in need of the good wishes.  Miracles hatch when we welcome this energy as our love is indeed the healer (always!).

What I have observed is we stand outside of our lives, outside of the experience so we aren’t present to receive.  There are co-workers, friends, family, strangers and customers showering us with appreciation, mirroring the beauty of who we are.  We say we hear it.  We say it feels good.  But we do not receive it.  We don’t know it.  We don’t believe it (really!).  As a life coach, I stand with people and re-enter the experience so they can let it in.  Tears come as they are touched at a depth they normally won’t drop in to.  They are seen.  They are known.  They are feeling the enormity of the gift they have been given.  We all want to be seen.  We all want to be known.  And life is magical and wondrous when we walk our paths fully conscious of the abundance we are and all life is.  From this space of awe, there is a true humility and true modesty as we recognize what a privilege it is to journey this life, acknowledging the immeasurable joy in being alive, offering our Self generously as only we can, and contributing our unique brilliance into the collective.   

The invitation this day and this lifetime is to RECEIVE the compliments with your heart wide open.  Stop.  Pause.  Stand there in the moment fully present.  Let it in!  Praises sung have the power to heal past wounds when we were starved for praise.  Respect given by another feels damn good as they acknowledge that we matter, that we make a difference.  Good wishes blow through us mind, body, heart and soul and clear the residue of old beliefs that clog our vitality and make us forget the beauty we are; remembering FREES us so we can see that we are indeed The Swan.  We have always been The Swan and will always be The Swan – never the ugly duckling.  So LOVEly! And from this knowing, we see others are also The Swan and must mirror their beauty back to them through our words of appreciation.