Childhood memories can rear their head just when you least expect it. But this is where the lessons lie. This is when you’re given the chance to be humble and admit you just don’t know it all. Trust is hard when all you knew was backed up into a corner. The defense mechanisms build over the years so they can’t break through your wall. Then one day you wake up and you realize parts of you got trapped behind it. Your sensibilities go array and your defensive disposition can get in your way.
As people we can be fragile. So far from perfect. Everyone has room for improvement. We’re no different in that regard. Even the most beautiful china cup can get a chip. But you can still drink from it.
Trust is scary. But people do care. You don’t always have to be your mothers daughter or your fathers son. You can come out from behind the shadows and know that your humility can set you free. We can’t be afraid to grow. We can’t be intimidated by who we used to be. Vulnerability isn’t weakness. There’s no need to be defensive. Practice makes perfect, tears can bring rainbows and promises to yourself can set you back on the right path.
A leap of faith and I join you in an epic adventure. An autonomous decree that if I miss, the stars will catch me. I become one with you and the world is an illumination. Me the shadow dancer being beckoned to embrace the splendor. The flight of an angel. Protected from the fears of adolescence. Guided through clouds of promises. Gratitude holds us high. Traveling the summit of our consciousness. Only the inner wonderment of a child shall find us airborne. Defying gravity. Immersed in the blue moon. The beauty of natures charms open her arms to us. Below the grass green and untouched. Stop and smell the flowers. Not a wrinkle in their stems or a pedal out of place. The light breeze sings for them, as they dance for me. My leap of joy. I believe. The awareness has made me one with the energy fields around me and so I ascend in harmony. I am set free. I shall rise to the occasion. Choose life. An answered prayer, a silent lullaby, a dream come true. Help me stay on course. Help me live like a butterfly. Help me glide. Help me love. Help me belong. Help me trust. Help me keep my promise.
Today is a great day for a romance and for skipping no matter who is watching. Today is the first day of the rest of your life and absolutely anything is possible. Today is a day unlike any other and where it leads really is up to you.
Cast no judgements, they will only hold you back. Hold no grudges, they will only hinder your growth. Do not take part in discriminations for what you put out you will get back ten fold.
Karma is a boomerang and only you have the ability to control your own outcome. Always be accountable.
Being human brings great responsibility and responsibility is not without consequence. If Mike Dooley is right and I do think he is, then thoughts become things and we really do write our own story. Do know that every great story goes through many rewrites. We can talk ourselves out of bad decisions and we can talk ourselves right into a room.
Reminders always come in handy so keep them close. You never know when you’re going to need them…
Love yourself and you will know hope. Hope for the best and you will know faith. Have faith and you will know your truth. Your truth will release the sun from behind the darkest clouds.
Love is the light that will lead the way. Consider love your conduit to long lasting relationships. It illuminates your innate desires and feeds your passions. Loves benevolence will open windows, doors and hearts everywhere.
Hope is the light at the end of the tunnel. Consider hope your inner flashlight. You control the switch and your batteries are solar powered. It helps you keep striving, pursuing, and seeing the bigger picture.
Faith is where the light is. Consider faith your adhesive to keep you in your strength. Hold on tight and let it hold onto you. The optimism will stir your senses and motivate your aspirations.
Truth is to walk in the light. Consider it your path to freedom from the darkness. The assimilation of truth will enlighten your spirit and purify your humanity. Embracing it shall truly set you free.
Love yourself and you will know hope. Hope for the best and you will know faith. Have faith and you will know your truth. Your truth will release the sun from behind the darkest clouds.
Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.
~Author Unknown
Not having known a mothers love can keep you from who you were supposed to be. You can roam around lost and make the wrong decisions. You can can spend your days cursing your birth. You can stay face down in the proverbial gutter because you think you have no worth.
But worth has no price tag. And where you come from does not govern the outcome. Influential meanderings can be obnoxious and you can’t let someone else’s confusion cast you out. Everything really does happen for a reason and there’s no room for doubt.
Because doubt has no hold on you. It’s not something inherently disguised. It’s something we create from nothing and it’s all a bunch of lies.
Lies are based in fear and you can’t give in. Having been blessed with the wonderment of a child instilled in me an undeniable faith. I know I may be far from perfect but what is perfect anyway? If it’s all relative than the definition can change. I am perfect to someone and you are all perfect to me.
This automatically changes the course of my future. It severs the umbilical chord and I am free to believe in the impossible, welcome the unknown, know that I am natures greatest miracle.
Make the choice today to join me because having faith will change you too.
Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
~Kahlil Gibran
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Let’s face it. Sometimes we get a little insecure. It happens to the best of us and most of the time it is strictly unwarranted. We are all beautiful in our own way, we are all blessings in our own right and we are all perfect in the eyes of the Divine. And it would do us well to remember it!
But why is it so easy to forget? Why do we get jaded or bitter and fall from grace? Why is it easier to believe the worst than it is to accept a compliment?
Because somewhere along the way we let the world at large get the best of us. We got captivated by the negativity on the news, or we let our parents judgements become our own, or we let our neighbors influence our decisions. It’s all ignorant and it’s all stoppable.
There is no way of really knowing why some people stop loving. Maybe their version of love was battered and bruised. Maybe love to them was lost. Maybe love to them came in the form of an accusatory loud voice. Maybe they never knew love at all.
It doesn’t matter. It’s time to be in love with every single moment of every single breath you take.
This is a reminder that one person really can make a difference and so it must start with you. We must raise ourselves up to the higher frequency level of love.
Can you imagine what it would be like if we are all in a place of love and never again spoke ill of anyone, or judged them, or cast them out for their differences, or shunned them because you didn’t understand them, or made fun of them because of how they dressed or talked?
I can. So it’s time to step out of your I syndrome and into the your love bubble. Here’s how.
Start with an image or memory of when you felt unconditionally loved. Cradle that image in your arms in front of your chest, “see” it in front of you, and also visualize your heart as a golden sphere.
Then connect to the Divine Universe’s infinite Love and support, either through the top of your head or through your back (think: “The Universe has my back”). That support is tangible and warm. Breathe it in to your heart space on the in-breath.
On the out-breath, blow the air out through your mouth, as if you were inflating a balloon. See the golden sphere of your heart grow as if it were a bubble or balloon!
Rinse and repeat until your Love Bubble is big enough for you to move around freely in. Remember to start each breath cycle with connecting first to your memory of unconditional love in the 3-D world (often dogs or newborns are great for this), and then connecting with the unlimited Love and support of the Universe. Pull that Love into your center, then blow up the bubble
By the time your Love Bubble is fully inflated, it’s no longer the deep gold it started out as, but a lovely opalescent pink, much like the bubble Glinda the Good Witch rides in on in The Wizard of Oz. Just like a regular balloon that starts dark and ends up lighter as it inflates.
Because you are pulling in pure Love, by a few breaths in you should be smiling! Also, each cell in your body will be full of Love + Light—and therefore smiling—by the end.
This bubble will keep you in a Love frequency until it deflates. No negativity from the outside can reach you (cool!). But, because we’re all still human, we will occasionally have a fearful thought, and that’s how the bubble springs a leak. Never fear! All you need to do when you notice it’s a little deflated is to take a few breaths to get it back into place! Be careful not to beat yourself up when this happens, because it will happen, and quite a bit at first. With practice, soon you’ll have many fewer of these deflation episodes!
You’ll know that your Bubble is deflated if your have a fearful, angry, anxious, or judgmental thought, or if you experience pain.
This Bubble protects your from negativity, keeps you in the space of Love + Abundance, and helps to pull the mood of those around you from fearful to Loving as well.
Thank you to my Intuitive Entrepreneur Coach, Elizabeth Locey for teaching me this amazing exercise. I am grateful to be apart of the process and reaching higher levels of consciousness in business and in life. You are so very appreciated.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
There's nothing you can do that can't be done.
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung.
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game
It's easy.
There's nothing you can make that can't be made.
No one you can save that can't be saved.
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you
in time - It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
Love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love, love.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
There's nothing you can know that isn't known.
Nothing you can see that isn't shown.
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be.
It's easy.
All you need is love, all you need is love,
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
All you need is love (all together now)
All you need is love (everybody)
All you need is love, love, love is all you need.
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Ironically, my words find me walking the symbolic streets of my journey. Sometimes, not all who wander are lost…
Peacefulness of fervor. Confidence brings free will. Will the clarity show me an open road of new direction? The firefly leads the way as I try to find the corner of Where Self Respect meets Self Esteem. You see, I’m moving. And this is where my new house will be and my new address will be marked in ink, in stone, & chiseled and bound. Past Avenue has been trying to hold me back and I have been so easily distracted.
While I stop to wipe the coffee I have spilled on my skirt the rain decides to come and help me. With a snap and latch of my umbrella I continue up Nothing Can Hold Me Down Boulevard. It seems to be a little colder up here and I am wet from the condensed moisture in the air. The wind chill is brisk and I feel as though I have been walking forever.
As I peak out from behind the umbrella I see that somehow I have entered Consternation Alley. Now how did I get in here? Wet dogs are picking through yesterdays garbage and I can hear a distraught cat meowing in the distance. He must be stuck on a fire scape somewhere. It’s dark and I have to slow my pace. Should I double back? Or should I keep moving forward? The fear grips me and I am stuck.
I can’t give in to it. I have to get myself out of this dreary alley and out of the rain. I see a break in the buildings up ahead and I make the right turn. As I emerge from the darkness I find myself on Brush Yourself Off Again Bridge and the sun is out and the rain has ceased so I shake off my umbrella and tuck it away in my purse. The bridge lets me off at a fork in the road. I must choose now. Choose between Been Here Done That Canyon and Time For A Fresh Start Drive. I pass by the canyon with confidence knowing that I choose not to walk those winding roads again.
With a spring in my step and looking up to the sky I remember where I am headed and find myself smiling again. Heading West I proceed toward The Power Of Now Expressway.
Humming to myself, I look around at the people passing me by. I try to smile at them, to make eye contact, to say Happy New Year. But I can’t get their attention. I stop for a second to take this all in. I consider tapping someone on the shoulder to ask them if they see me. But instead I study the behavior patterns they all hold in common.
I take up stride with a couple walking toward the coffee shop. I mimic their movements and their gestures. I carry my shoulders the same way and my head follows suit. I find that we are looking at the ground. To my dismay I stop dead in my tracks. I lift my head and circling in place I realize that all of the people around me are also staring toward the ground, at their phones their so-called smart devices. Lost in manipulation, resisting eye contact and human connection. Missed opportunities and potential friendships. A tele-conditioned society of robots and there is nothing intelligent about this. Artificial misconceptions hypnotizing everyone into false hope and security. No wonder we are all going around in circles.
Our brisk walk takes us past all of the important stops we are supposed to make in our lives. Thoughts Become Things Circle, If You Leap The Net Will Appear Court, Home Is Where The Heart Is Gardens.
I keep walking praying that everyone will look up. That I will remember to always look up. As I raise my eyes skyward I see cobblestone up ahead. Where I grew up in New York there was a small street of cobblestone and I loved this little street. Could it be? I have to see this for myself…
Excited, I run through You Can Do It Meadow and skip along Memory Lane to the street of my proverbial past. The cobblestone is uneven and unpredictable but you can jump them like hopscotch. Some are cracked, and some are broken. Some are small and grey and others big and beige. They are all dirty with the passage of time. But if you look closely, some of them are perfect. They held their composure even through the worst of times.
There is one house on this cobblestone street and it’s as majestic as I remembered it. The white house with it’s red awnings and grand double doors. The hollow windows with ivory curtains and the over grown willows to protect it’s entry. The fragile mailbox and the grand lawn. The swing hanging from the oak that stands tall and ever seeing. I wipe the dust from the plaque to reveal the address. 24812 Answers Lie Within You Manor. I’m home. .
When we experience negative thoughts about ourselves we are putting limitations on our growth. We are placing ourselves in a box and closing the lid. There can be no sun in this kind of darkness. When we realize we are being negative we can simply choose to change our thinking. As I have said before, even the simple act of saying the word positive can uplift our frame of mind. Experiencing all or nothing thinking feeds the hunger of negativity. Our perceptions of how events effect us is rooted in our approach to life. Our own life and the lives of others. The worse kind of negativity is when it is projected toward others.
Negativity • (of a person, attitude, or situation) not optimistic; harmful or unwelcome • (ofastatementordecision) expressingorimplyingdenial, disagreement, or refusal
One way to release the binds of negativity is to come up with multiple explanations surrounding an event. Another way is to be accountable for the part you play in the occurrences in your life. Do you see a theme? Do you find yourself saying the same thing but to a different recipient? Doesn’t it get old? It must play like a broken record. Hmm. It’s time to turn judgement into solution. To let go of blame! To be accountable. If you always find blame in what others are doing or not doing for you don’t you think it’s time for you to start figuring out what you can do for yourself or for others? It’s a lot more rewarding and when we fend for ourselves a funny thing happens. You’ll see. If you spend your day engaging in gossip you will find that it is you that gets left behind and eventually people won’t want to be around you anymore. That would be lonely. Instead of focusing on what everyone else is doing why wouldn’t you figure out what you could be doing? Giving back to the world in some way is a perfect remedy for releasing negativity and there are so many ways to get out of your own way. Volunteer for kids, help save a whale, Clean up your street. If we focus on the negativity in the world negativity will find us. And be careful because negativity breeds like cancer. It can actually physically make you sick and I am sure it would certainly make the people around you sick. Nothing good ever comes out of trying to inflict negativity on others. Negativity towards others is vindictive and often stems from your own delusions. Negativity may be harmful to others but it’s more harmful to the person engaging it. Another very strong case against negativity is this.If you try to inflict negativity on others and they don’t engage (and hopefully they don’t), that negativity has to go somewhere. It will find its way back to the source and it will multiply ten fold. Eek! The world is a BIG place and it’s chock full of amazing opportunities! There is enough abundance to go around for all of us. Energy is in a constant flow. It surrounds us like the puff of a blown dandelion. Positive energy brings ideas. These ideas are tossed around within this energy and it is ours for consideration. Let’s share, let’s fill our hearts and our lives with love. Let’s look at what we can do for others instead of what they can do for us, let’s be examples to those around us. Let’s know that some things aren’t going to work out but that others will. Let’s know that within each industry there is enough room for all of us to be allies, let’s bring our own twist, personality and approach to everything we pursue. Let’s do so with positivity. If our essence becomes the good in the world the good will find us. Do you think Microsoft and Mac hate each other? No they coexist and they poke fun at each other in commercials. Do you think Nike and Converse are at odds because they are both sneaker companies? On the contrary they actually merged and created a bigger company. Do you think authors are at odds with each other? No! Instead they compliment each other and put forwards and positive quotes on each others books.
Childhood memories can rear their head just when you least expect it. But this is where the lessons lie. This is when you’re given the chance to be humble and admit you just don’t know it all. Trust is hard when all you knew was backed up into a corner. The defense mechanisms build over the years so they can’t break through your wall. Then one day you wake up and you realize parts of you got trapped behind it. Your sensibilities go array and your defensive disposition can get in your way.
