Deep within all of us is a knowing. A constant, unchanging knowing. A knowing that watches while all else changes: the seasons, the moods, relationships, weather... all.
Read MoreRemembering Your Freedom
freedom
Dancing The Wild Dance Of YOUR Life
We live in a time that requires us to step into all change that beckons us–with fullness and totality. Whatever Spirit is calling us into is needed on not just a micro-level, but on a macro-level as well. Sometimes it may seem […]
Read MoreOpening the Doors
It is time to open the door. Reach out your hand and pull the handle, no matter how splintery or heavy it is–and open the door. Pull open the door, even if you have done it a million times: Open the door once more, fresh and clarified. Open the door to what you have […]
Read MoreWho Are You Without Your Script?
Are you aware of your script? What are the words that declaim your most certain of challenges? "I have no time." "I never get it right." "No matter what I do, it's never good enough." "They always […]
Read MoreYou Can Have the Sky OR You Can Have Your Ideas, but You CAN'T Have Both
I'm not talking about creative ideas that jazz you up and inspire the eventual beauty that flows out of you–those you can have forever and ever and still have the sky. Because those [...]
Read MoreA Rant on Beliefs
in freedom, spirituality, the mind
Beliefs are frozen thoughts–frozen thoughts that we subconsciously believe serve us. The funny thing is, beliefs only begin to truly support us once we figure out that they're not REAL. Supportive beliefs can often [...0
Read MoreSadness and Pain Are *Not* Darkness, But the Unconscious Is
Pain, sadness, and other challenging feelings and sensations may POINT to darkness, but they are not the darkness themselves. Darkness is simply [...]
Read MoreShadows
SHADOWS. Let's talk about them for a moment. Shadows are often the first [...]
Read MoreLife Is a Rollercoaster
Life is a rollercoaster—you’re born into it. You are literally born in a rollercoaster seat. And then, as you [...]
Read MorePSA: Life Is Not Meant to Make You Happy
Somehow, no matter how many times we are reminded and take it in, we catch ourselves expecting life to go in a way that makes us happy. Even as full grown adults, we keep [...]
Read MoreDo you dream?
Do you dream? Do you take the shackles off your imagination and allow [...]
Read MoreA Universe of Reflective Light
So if you've chosen to read this, then I welcome you to consider this, and tap into the freedom that exists in this realization: We are unique perspectives -- of light -- in a universe where there is only light. A universe where [...]
Read MoreA Cage Called Freedom
Something very tricky that comes up again and again in spiritual "ways" is a misunderstanding about freedom. Freedom doesn't come from choosing to not be in relationship, or from not having a 9-5 job, or from traveling from place to place and not having one home, or from cutting yourself off from your family. Whenever freedom has conditions or any lack of unconditionality, it is a cage. Freedom is contextual NEVER-percent of the time.
Read MoreLooking Through the Window Pane
Sometimes, we see life right before our eyes, but there's a glass pane between us and that certainty of oneness. In moments like this, we doubt our creative abilities, we doubt how much we can handle [...]
Read MoreListen Carefully...
If we listen carefully enough, if we look and look until we're finally truly looking, we see all distinctions fade away. Male, female. Right, wrong. Happiness, sadness. If we just focus enough [...]
Read MoreSometimes Saying NO Is Actually Saying YES!!!!
When we are really saying yes to life, we must also say it through our no's. When that's happening, our no's are actually yes's - yes's to [...]
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Awareness Is a Flashlight that Gives Us a Choice
When There's No Laughter
But last week, there was very little laughter bubbling through me. I missed it, was tempted to even help push it out of me, until I remembered: laughter is the other side of non-laughter. The two are [...]
Read MoreThe Misunderstanding of Obligation and Putting Others Before Yourself
I DON'T CARE WHAT YOU WANT TO DO, AND NEITHER SHOULD YOU. What we all need to care about is what we feel [...]
Read More“I’m inspired to be. I am the inspiration of restfulness. Inspiration is not meant to equate to doing.”
Inspired to RELAX, Inspired to BE
Do you ever feel like you have to do it all on your own?
Like there just isn't enough energy and inspiration within you to get it all done or to make some good magic with your life?
I know exactly what you mean.
After recently experiencing the joy of receiving an amazing book offer, and going forward with that relationship, I have been faced with not only the enchantment and wonderfulness of all of that, but also the strong feeling of oh shit, now what? While the answer may seem obvious, (now what=edit, share more, put yourself out there), the "now whats" that we often feel do not arise out of a stupor of not knowing "what to do," but rather from the energetic plateau we meet again and again throughout or lives where doing feels contrived or inspiration feels blocked.
Now what? can be daunting when the energy is not there for a participation in whatever is happening, particularly when you think it should be. How many times in your life have you attempted to muster up the energy for this or that because you thought you "should" or because you believed you "needed to," only to feel more exhausted and out-of-touch as a result? We all know what that is like.
When we have expectations about how we should feel or what should be happening, and we get on that bandwagon of actually believing those expectations, then we are in for quite the ride. Why? A few reasons. First off, although we know what is best for us in the innermost sense, we do not know how that is meant to manifest. In other words, it may be your dharma and your truth to focus your energy on this or that project, but you may need to rest this week and focus on your inner world in order to really be able to show up in all of your power and glory. There might be the most amazing, perfect event happening on Thursday night, but if your spirit is saying stay home or I need to be in solitude, then to go to that event on Thursday night is to pull yourself out of alignment and, believe it or not, actually delay you in living out the most aligned unfolding. Whoever you thought you'd meet at that event, well, you probably would not meet the most ideal match for you; rather, you'd actually meet that harmonic match naturally, like walking to get a cup of coffee the next morning after a good night to yourself.
If you just stayed in on Thursday night, perhaps meditated or took a warm bath and just let yourself be, who knows? Perhaps, in that deep relaxation, the perfect next step would arise. The divine inspiration would swirl through your being upon you finally having space to let go. When we let go and let God, the possibilities are truly endless!
We are never goin' it alone. When we start to feel that way, it is a signal that we need to rest and remember. We are putting too much pressure on ourselves to do or to be something we are not or to fill out imagined shoes of who we think we need to become. It's all a trip and it's just a trip to take you home. Within yourself. At peace, and giving space for God to rush through your being and light up your cells. Divine inspiration always comes in divine timing. That's just the way it is.
As for me, I am drinking my own medicine. The past week included a few challenges and plenty of tears, and I did my best to let each tear clean the lens of the flashlight so that I may peer inside and see more clearly. So that I may help liberate whatever needs liberating. By resting into each moment and staying clear-eyed for what I am being shown, I know the way is cleared for inspiration to have the space to rise, and that is the best I can do. And that is enough. In the end, it's all one big opportunity to see more, clear more, love more and be more...which really just means: see, clear, love, be... there is no more when we are with these aspects of being.
Furthermore, I realize that I am, actually inspired right now: I'm inspired to be. I am the inspiration of restfulness. Inspiration is not meant to equate to doing.
So remember, there is no "should." We feel how we feel, and that is that. How we feel is never right and never wrong. How we feel benefits not from our judgement, but from our listening. When we slow down and move deeper within, past the details of what it all seems to be about, and listen to what our being is actually saying... we fall into alignment, we fall into grace, and we remember our divine place.
Let yourself be... let go of the pressure. Everything happens in its time and we have no idea what that actually is. Keep listening to yourself carefully and with love, and all is then as aligned as it can be.