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November 16, 2016November 15, 2016

The Space …

I’ve been struggling. So much going on. So much action and reaction. So many emotions. So strong. So much confusion. So much pain. So much anger.

I have lost myself in all of it. Can you relate? Maybe not. But just in case you can, I offer these lyrics. They suggest some focus on and resting within the spaces – the spaces between stimulus and response, between emotion and reaction, between the in breath and the out breath, between each thought. It is in the space, the silence, where we encounter our truth and the courage to live it.

In The Space

In the space, in the space between each task…
In the space when I take the time to ask…
In that space, that precious space, I relax.

In the space, in the space between my words…
In the space where I pause and breathe, discern…
In that space, that sacred space, I learn.

In the space, in the space between my thoughts…
In the space where I know I am not lost…
In that space, that peaceful place, I am taught.

In the space, in the space between my fears…
In the space where I feel pure love, so dear…
In that space, in sweet embrace, I hear.

In the space, in the silence of my soul…
In the space, I’ve released my false control.
In this space, this resting place, I am whole.

Jeanne Loehnis, 2008

What awaits you in the space?
What if you spent time there?
What would shift in you?

September 24, 2016September 14, 2016

The Gift of Awareness

Bring the gift of awareness into your day today. Choose a touchstone, a reminder, to keep with you all day long. Perhaps it is a ring on your finger, or clouds, or the act of walking through a doorway. Then, each time you see your touchstone, pause. Invite a message from each of your senses: sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell, intuition.

What is really here now?

September 18, 2016September 28, 2016

The Universe is out to Support You!

“Around the bend, in the unseen,
arising from the very uncertainties that may now seem to taunt you,
there are some amazing surprises awesome twists,
and spellbinding coincidences about to emerge that you can’t even now imagine.”

A Note From the Universe by Mike Dooley

I’m sharing this with you today because the effects of this universal truth have been SO prominent for me recently. If you’ve never thought about this before, take a moment. Have you really planned and foreseen each step in your life journey? Big things, little things, imagine:

The parking place that opened up as you rounded the corner, running late…
There is a new doctor in town who specializes in the area of medicine that you need now…
Of all the people in the world, you were present to meet your mate at that specific time and place – five minutes later and he would have been gone…

There is so much that we don’t control. Continue reading “The Universe is out to Support You!”

June 18, 2016June 8, 2016

Multi-Dimensional Living

I’m going out on a limb here to explore something with you. As with anything I write, take what you like and leave the rest. Take the bite that tastes good to you and chew on it. Notice any new flavors popping up in you and share them – please!

So, perhaps you have heard it suggested that we live in a many-dimensional universe – well beyond the three dimensions taught in school. You may have experienced the mystical realm either directly or perhaps as channeled through another human being. You may have received clear messages of past lives which inform you now. But if all of this sounds like hocus pocus to you, you might be ready to press the DELETE key and get rid of this message pronto!

If you’re still here, let me say that I’ve been on the side of DELETE IT NOW for decades. Life was a linear experience from birth to death. Skills and knowledge were meant to grow as I understood more and more about this thing called life. Answers came and questions were to become fewer and fewer. By death, I’d have it all figured out, right?

NOT! Experiences in recent years have me opening wide and embracing the idea that this human experience is about the questions, expansion, getting curious, and trusting the Universe to show me what’s next. On the topic of this multi-dimensional Universe, here are a few thoughts:

I can live from the ideas and beliefs that guided me as a child and during each major life phase along the way – I can “live in and from the past”
I can vision, daydream, imagine potential and use what I see to inform what I do now – I can “live the future”
I can choose to embrace the viewpoint of others who have walked the Earth (Jesus, Buddha, Mother Theresa, Ghandi, Pilgrims, Indians …) at any point in time and choose from that dimension, believe that my soul has been around before and let its experiences guide me now
I can be a very intentional human being here and now and put all of my attention on work, health, family, relationships … invest in this lifetime, this dimension
I can choose to believe in the existence of spiritual beings and seek out psychics or mediums to bring their guidance to me
I can focus deeply on my spiritual growth and release attachments to the physical in this lifetime
I can believe in the inner guidance of my intuition and focus on its development
I can …

And I can choose to be aware of and act from all of these perspectives, so many dimensions, here and now. I can believe that I live in a multi-dimensional Universe, a Universe of unlimited perspective and possibility. What do you think?

What potential lies in the acceptance of this concept?
What dimension would support you now?
And now?

June 10, 2016June 10, 2016

Watching my garden grow

This morning, I gave myself permission to be with Life: the robins feeding their young, the clouds moving ever so slowly. And, the poppies popping! It has been three hours now since the first photo of the day:

with the poppies which were not open last night, OPEN! If you look ever so closely at the lower right-hand corner of that photo above, you’ll see the 4th poppy just starting to open. Then, an hour later, that same poppy bud open!

and another hour later:

and just one more hour later:

Okay – and one more hour later:

I’m floored! I’m also aware of Life in a new way. I have never allowed myself to witness nature like this before. Okay, I may be slow on the uptake here! And perhaps I DID witness such things when I was a child. Having spent Tuesday afternoon in the woods with a 2 1/2 year old who described the clouds as “cracking out” with such delight, it would seem a child simply cannot NOT witness the magic!

I guess some questions for me, and you, if you choose, are:

Where do I refuse to slow down and be fully present?
What is happening moment to moment that I miss?

What would a daily dose of wonderment do for my spirit?