This Too Shall Pass. But Here It IS!

This too Shall Pass. But Here it IS! I had forgotten how Harsh the Winter is. And the Energy the Cold relentlessly steals. Biting wind chills. Icy roads. Hibernating. Cabin Fever. This too shall Pass. But Here it IS. I awakened this Morning to "This too shall Pass. Everything Passes. Let it Pass." And my soul echoed Wisdom back: "Ohhh Yes. I do Know this. But HERE it IS." This makes me giggle as I Believe every moment is Rich and Abundant no matter how Harsh. Each Season whether we like it or Not is purposeful doing what it does Naturally. The forces of our Own Nature Unconditionally at Play in All the Conditions of Life. I observe our cultural resistance Using Platitudes to bypass feelings that must wash through And wring Us. Focusing on the Passing strips the necessary experience that has come Knocking on our Door. Here it IS. And here I am (You Are). And the next here will surely come. It is Holding The Paradox. Allowing both! Knowing it will Pass resting assured AND Being Present to what has come to Visit. I remember hearing: "This too shall pass!" Over and over following the death of my husband. I wanted to SCREAM (and eventually I did SCREAM like a Wild Woman over a Bon Fire in the Winter Night exorcizing the Ugly Truth not Fit for the Day Light ): "Yes. I F*cking KNOW THIS! I KNOW! I KNOW this will Pass! but it is RIGHT HERE swallowing me. Just Be with me! Please. Until it Passes." But People just could Not be with Me in the rawness of my Pain. And I absolutely understand. Yes. I. Do. If we are uncomfortable with our own Pain, we can't be with Others in Pain. We are master Avoiders as a Culture. Not understanding The Pain actually cuts Life into Us. Liberates Us. Takes us Deeper into Our True Self. Where we come ALIVE! Touching All that Heart and Soul. Connecting to the Spirit that is Free in All moments Dancing with what Comes. Not labeling and slicing life into Negative and Positive, Good or Bad, trying to do life Right as if feeling is Wrong and Shameful. Life's a little bit of heaven and a little bit of hell. And when you know your personal hells, You can only Bless those in their Dark hours pouring your Heart into theirs instead of judging. Be here. With Your Self. Touch your Heart. And pour it into the Heart of the World. The Heart heals. The judgment just doesn't. Love Your Self wherever You are and you can Love All wherever they are. This brings The Beauty to the Ugliest moments. Being Fully Human is Badasss Brave! Be Brave. Be You. Woo woo woofrickinhoo:))

What If Living Life is the Greatest Spiritual Practice?

Living Life is my Spiritual Practice. Which is the Same answer I give when Asked what I Do for Fun. Life is Fun when Lived from our Spirit Ever-Free. Consciously inviting our Joy to guide our lives, our Choices. Joy beyond an Idea is a Resonance within that Feels like a Smile embodied. Beyond conditions or circumstances, Joy is The light of the heavens washing through as we walk this Earth living this Magnificent Human Journey. Experiencing the Adventure of being You. And Me. Our Great Personal Odysseys playing out distinctively and collectively. Together we Rise. Together we Fall. Truly! You Rising, receiving this Life you came here to Live, expressing your Authentic Self, lift us All and it is your Greatest offering to the World. Untangling your Self from limiting Beliefs. Questioning and Living the Answers. Assessing thoughts that are Not your Own inherited by our Culture or Family. Dismissing what Insults you at the level of Soul. Setting Intentions. Visualizing your Dreams realized. Seeing your Spirit Materialized where your Truest Self creates the Life. Thinking from the End. Feeling the Joy in The Evolution of You coming Alive inviting More of You to come Out and Play. Placing a Prayer around It asking the Universe to Assist in All Matters and Trusting it is instantly Done. Each Day, You are Directing Your Life Force partnering with the Universe Within You. Touching the Magic. Breath by Breath. Opening your Self to the Possibilities. Believing with All of You that Amazing Grace is at Work bringing who You need into Your Life; taking you where You must Go; clearing out the Old. In the Letting Go More Life is Written! Being attached, needing to Keep things the Same, Controlling outcomes, closing Your Self off creates a drag Energetically where You have no juice to Fuel the Life you want to Create. Even the Smallest changes bring huge Shifts opening You and Your Life. Whatever you are Focusing on, you are plugging your precious energy into. Whatever you give Attention to, you are tying your Self to energetically. Be Aware. Just Notice. Observe your Self without Judging. Energy doesn't lie! Experiences are All Perfect and Purposeful even the ones we wanna wish Away. Moments reveal what we truly Believe in our Core beyond what we think we Believe. Giving us the Opportunity to consciously reprogram Old attitudes and Fears from lifetimes and this Lifetime. Bringing into our Consciousness what we weren't aware of shifts Everything. Otherwise, we keep creating the Same things bringing fated interventions to wake Us Up. Returning us to a Sense of Self connected to the Power within. Remembering who we Truly are: The Dreamer AND The Dream. This Life is one helluva Ride and it Surely ain't easy to Face our Self and Face the moments Trying to Tell Us what we don't wanna hear. You are Courage in MOTION! Let your Brave Heart take You Boldly into this Day. Daring to Show Up and LISTEN to what Life's telling You; Dancing with the Moments. BELIEVING with All of You: Anything is Possible! Woo woo woofrickinhoo:). Ohhh, BELIEVE! Ask. Receive. And LIVE your Life.

We're All Hurt People learning to Love Our Self

All Day, Every Day, I get to have the Most Alive conversations with Amazing People Just like You who are aching to Speak all that Heart and Soul. They want just like All of Us To be Loved where they Are, as They Are, for Whom They Are. Their Voices held hostage by an Idea that they are Trying to fit into; by Expectations of others they are Trying to Live Up to; and by Fear that if People REALLY knew them and saw them, they wouldn't Love them. This is a part of our Human wiring at our Core. A Primal Fear that if others we Love don't Love Us back, we will Die. It is Not logical; it is Deep-seeded within Us All. This Fear that the End of a relationship with those we Love or the withdrawing of Love from another will KILL Us. Love from others makes Us feel whole and this Feels Amazing, but All roads lead us back to Our Self, to who we Truly Are. Our Human journey requires us to take back our Projections connecting to our Sense of Higher Self, Our Essence that animates All claiming the Power of the Universe housed within Each of Us. Discovering we Are The Love. This Love that Nourishes and Liberates Us is within our Very Breath. Ever-flowing. Ever-growing. The Love we are waiting for from Others or waiting to experience from Outside of Us is the Love we are withholding from Our Self. We are Disconnected. Forgetting our Truest Self expressing All that Heart and Soul. We are All Hurt People learning to Love our Self! This is Truth. No matter what it Looks like. No matter how Pretty and Perfect the package Appears. We are All fractured at our Core and the only Love that can make Us whole is from Our Self. Drinking from This Ocean Within All Day. Touching the heavens within as we Walk The Earth. Beyond the Human conditions we place on our Self or Others place on Us; This Cosmic Force within, this Pure Love is the Miracle of You. The Miracle of Me. The Miracle of All. Receive Your Self. Hold your Self dear. Love on Your Self and watch the organic shift Happen. The Behaviors and Patterns you are Trying to Change through the Control Model of our Culture will Simply and Profoundly Let GO! They have served You filling the Void. Your Love springing from the Cosmic Heart is the Only Thing that will make you Whole. Filling the Cracks and Cauterizing the wounds so Life's blood can Flow freely through You. Everything else will leave You Empty. Chasing Outside of You what lies within You. Always here. In this Moment. Always there. Sewn in the fabric of You. From this Wholeness, EVERYTHING you experience in this World is Rich. You taste the Abundance of Life at Play with the Infinite creating The More that Calls You. For Your Joy! Being You. LOVE! LOVE! LOVE! Your Self Fiercely and Sweetly. And Come Alive! Your Life mirroring this Love for others, reminding them that who they are is absolutely Magnificent beyond measure. Woo woo woofrickinhoo :))! It TRULY is damn Amazing to Be You.

PLAY the Song of YOU!

Ohhh, what lies within You. Me. All. Beyond our comprehension. It must be Felt. This Energy must be sipped into your bones. The Vibration of the Cosmos pulsing through your Very breath. Animating Your being. Rising You to heights you came here to Reach. Reminding you there's More. Always More. As you are Ever-Growing. Ever-Evolving. Ever-Blossoming into the Fuller expression of You. Know thyself! Is the Wisdom of the Ages. But do Not lock your Self into a Limited Idea only knowing your Self to be who you Are in this moment. Look back on your Life and You will See the Beauty of you revealed again and again at Play with Life. Stand in this New Now. This New Day breaking. Let Go and let it Open you in ways that will Surprise the Hell outa You. Fly Free from the Ideas impressed upon You around the Roles you Play in Life. And Be You! Dare to Be YOU. More of You than You can Imagine. Question Everything from the depths of you. Being reflective. Dismissing what insults your Soul. Spitting out what you simply cannot digest. Living the Answers! Asking and Seeing what Holds You Back. Your precious Life Force locked into Concepts caging your Vitality that Springs eternal. Liberating your Self from the cultural spells around Aging? Marriage? Being single? Living the Dream? What a Good Life is? What Success is? What makes You a Good person? And touching the Goodness within YOU. The Abundance of Life ever-flowing. The wisdom echoing: PLAY! You are here to PLAY the Greatest Song of YOU. You are the Love of the Universe in the flesh. You are the Hope. You are the Joy. You are the Amazing Grace sprinkling your Glory all over this Day being You. You are the Miracle. No need to wait on Anything outside of You to Rescue You from a Life that isn't You. The Power lies within You. Pull the Rip cord! Let it Ride You Home to your Self. Meet your Self with Awe and Wonder. You are You. BELIEVE in the Magic of your Life. You are Worthy and Deserving of All your Heart's Desires. Go Ahead: Receive your Self. Dance Wildly into the Unknown. Knowing the Greatness of Life is You. Never outside of You. Woo woo woofrickinhoo:)! Ohhh, My My My Myyyyy. It is Damn AMAZING to Be You.

LIVE like it ain't Over 'til it's Over!

Believe in Your Dreams! Believe in your Self! Your Heart is the Keeper of your Sacred desires. These Longings are your Truest Self nudging You beyond your comfort zones. Pulling You Up and Out. Shouting "It's Time!" Awakening You from your Slumber. Not allowing You to Settle into a Life that is Not Your Own. Discontentment comes knocking when You are living a Life that doesn't fit. On the surface, everything looks Good. There appears to Be no reason why you would Ache for new experiences. The Call for More won't let you Go. Adventure awaits. And You know that You must Let Go and Reach for the More. Sounds so simple. But it's not Easy. Effort and Grace is the Way from where You are to where You wanna Go. You do your Part and let the Universe blow the Miracles through You. BELIEVING! will fuel you stoking that inner Fire as you step into the Unknown. Visualizing the Dream realized. Seeing your Self in the Life you are materializing. Feeling as if it has happened and there You are in the Joy of a Life you came here to Live. You feel at Home within Your Self so Alive in the World. Your Soul always Knows. Your Heart remembers. Liberating You again and again to Speak all that Heart and Soul. Expressing authentically as You Grow this Life. Cultivating potentials once dormant that are Ready to Dance You into what's next. The greatest challenge is Believing what You Know deep down Inside. Keeping the Faith in your Self when well-intended People who you love and admire project their own Fears, disappointments and limiting Beliefs onto You. Do Not give Your Power away! Be vigilant. See the Truth and Be fully Aware that the majority of People are cut off from all that Heart and Soul. Even those who have had Great Success and appear to have it All. Our culture is filled with Fat Cats starving to remember who they Truly Are. The external identifiers cannot quench the thirst to drink from the Well of Love within. This essential nourishment springing that comes from Living the Passion. People have lost their ability to Dream, to Believe in the Magic as they are disconnected from the Power within. No sense of the Higher Self plugged into the Creative Forces, the Universe animating all Life. Others offer their input and You must stand on your own two feet rooted on the Earth feeling the heavens blow through You fortifying You. You must consciously disconnect from the Energy of worry, doubt and fear that feels like sound advise but is based on their experiences, their history. You must Imagine scissors clipping the Energy so Your Wings are Not tethered to their ideas gripping You; threatening to hold you Back from your Dreams. You must fly Free! Believe with All of you that Anything is Possible. Bless them where they are. Bless your Self with Affirming words. Put a Prayer around It setting intentions directing your Life Force. Let GO! And Go! Go! Go! Follow the Inner Call into the Wild. Into the Life that Excites the Hell outa You. Feeling the Magic pulsing through You breath by breath. Ohhh, BELIEVE! Live like it ain't Over 'til it's Over! You are the Dreamer and the Dream. Step into the Life you came here to Love. Woo woo woofrickinhoo :)!

You are Braver than You wanna Be!

Be YOU. Be BRAVE. Be BRAVER than You wanna BE and experience the Miracle of YOU. Knowing Anything is Possible grounded in a Deep sense of Self. Remembering the Possibilities lie within You. Never outside of You. The inner Shift opens the doors in the Outer World. Coming back to your Center again and again when Life knocks you Off your feet. Standing in your Power consciously connecting to All that Heart and Soul. Breathing. Being with Life. Facing Fears. Bringing them Out into the Light. Your consciousness illuminating the Dark. Seeing the Fear. Feeling the Heat wash through You. Experiencing It. Understanding that It has no Authority over You. Your Brave Heart is fierce enough to Free You. In the Moment. Letting it Be. Acknowledging what has come Up. Making it Safe. Pulling the Shame Out of being Afraid. Bringing the Truth into full View: We're All Afraid! AND We're All Brave beyond measure. Lifting the Veils. Embracing the energy of the Coward that's a part of your consciousness. Being okay with the flip side of your Badass Brave Heart. Each is a part of the Whole. Think of the Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. One moment he is declaring himself King of the Forest. Feeling his Power. Growling with an inner Fight. And in the next moment, he is terrified Running from his Fear. Jumping through the Window. The Cowardly Lion is alive in You. Me. All. As we are ever-Growing and Evolving. Life brings New experiences that Scare the hell outa us! This is Living. This is a part of coming Alive. This is You becoming Aware that the Coward cannot Stop You. This is You coming to See that You are Braver than You wanna Be. Braver than You know you are. Always More of You revealed. New depths of You carved by Life. Supa Dupa COOL! You are Supa Dupa Badass Brave. Yes. You. Are. Go Boldly into this Day. Moment by moment. Dancing with the Dark. Pouring the Light from within You. The Fear is no match for the Brave Heart. BELIEVING! Moving the Mountains. Slaying the Dragons. Staring down the Beast. Woo woo woofrickinhoo:)! The Force lies within YOU.

You are YOU: So Sacred. So Divine. So Alive!

You are YOU! And Who You are is Magnificent. Yes. YOU. Are. See YOU. Hear YOU. Stand in this New Now. Touch the Amazing Grace You house. The Essence of You. So divine! All that Fire You carry. All that heaven flowing Through. Breath by Breath. Go within. Go beyond where You have gone Before. Plunge into Depths of Your Self. Mining for the Gold you possess. Extracting dormant Energies. Meeting More of You. Claiming parts of You Ready to Play. Expressing All that Heart and Soul. Living the Passion connected to Your sense of Self. Hell comes when You are living a Life that's not YOU! Surviving the Days. Doing Time here. Disconnected from your Soul that Knows YOU MATTER stirring You and guiding You to Free Your Self. Come Alive! Daring you to untangle your Precious Life Force from what has been Lived. In order to GROW new life. Being in the Uncomfortable zone. The in Between. Living the Good that Is. Counting Blessings. Appreciating Your Self and Your Life. Trusting you will Arrive on New Shores calling You Home. Letting Go of what You Know, all that's Familiar and comfortable BELIEVING More Good awaits. Letting Go of Ideas of who You should Be. Letting Go of Expectations of what You should want. Letting Go of Cultural concepts around Success and what makes Life Good. Your Heart Whispers in nudges and pangs ever-guiding You into Your Greatest Joy. Being You. More of You than You Imagined. Heaven comes each Day living a life that's YOU. Reflecting the Truth and Beauty of You. Even when Things You would Never wish for Come, You experience Abiding Joy aligned with Your Sacred Self. Living Simply. Simply Living. In the moments. Dancing with what Comes. Present to Your Self and to Those You are Privileged to Love and be Loved by. This resonance of Joy is unconditional plugged Into the Vitality ever-Springing. Echoing Love, Peace, Hope, Grace and Joy. This pure Vibration of Your True Self nourishing You in ways Not possible in the External World. Moment by moment. Day by Day. Come what May. You are YOU. Be You. Free You. Love You. Experience You. All this Heaven here on Earth. Never Outside of You! Always here. Always There. Within You. YES!!! Be in Awe. It is Damn Good to Be YOU. Woo woo woofrickinhoo :))!