Tidbits of Wisdom to inspire your unique life journey – Jeanne Loehnis, Songs For Your Spirit, LLC
Life regularly presents opportunities for learning, growing, expanding! Here you’ll find ideas, stories and inspiration from my life. As you read, be sure to consider the unique and amazing life that is yours. Only then, discern if this tidbit is for you!
What if you knew that everything you desire in life was waiting for you to recognize it, claim it, live it?
What if the only path forward was to be here now?
What if this now moment was all that mattered?
What if this moment, this activity, this breath fully experienced was guaranteed to lead you to the greatest version of the grandest vision of your destiny?
What if …
How would you choose to experience “now”?
Check out these lyrics: Each and Every Moment
Do you storyize?
What?
Storyize! Storyizing is the art of embellishing the facts with your stories and assumptions. When storyizing takes over me, my mind is spinning wildly with what could happen, what I want to be true, what I most fear.
If you, like me, you have become quite adept at storyizing, take a moment to stop. Practice simple observation followed by curiosity:
That’s interesting. I just witnessed “that”. Just “that”. Just what appeared to be a mean glance from a friend:
Friend, are you okay? I saw a strange look on your face.
Just what appeared to be defiant behavior from my child.
Child, you know that isn’t a good thing to do. Help me understand. What were you thinking? Why did you do that?
Rather than embellishing our stories, we can expand the facts.
What might be possible if you stop storyizing?
Bring to mind a situation, relationship, belief that both challenges you and that you are ready to experience shift around.
Got it? Now:
What? Again. And again.
What goal have you set for yourself? Perhaps for the summer it is to get outside more and enjoy the weather. Maybe you have begun a new exercise program. Perhaps it’s daily meditation. Maybe, like me, you are practicing the belief that you are enough, you are lovable just the way you are!
Whatever it may be, today is a day to practice again, to do “it” again, to remind yourself again. The journey toward your goal is one day at a time, one step at a time, yet another repetition!
Can you do “it” again?
Will you?
Here in the United States, a celebration of our nation’s freedom is around the corner. I’ve paused often lately to remember and appreciate how free I really am. It is a gift to have been born into the “home of the free” and for me, into the white middle-class, a gift I don’t want to take for granted.
Yet, there is another type of freedom – or bondage – that human beings inflict on themselves. How free are you to live in integrity, to feel your feelings, to expand into your fullest and finest self-expression? How free do you believe you are? How free do you allow yourself to be? And, how, by your attitude, words and actions, do you free or imprison others? Do you allow your loved ones, your friends and colleagues, to be themselves? Do you treat others with respect and free them in your mind to be who they are? For a few additional questions around freedom and imprisonment, check out:
