“Another absolutely gorgeous day. Can I bottle these for use at a later date?”

My dear friend Katja, on Kauai responded:

“The bottle is your heart and yes you can!!”

That was the most absolutely perfect response and I replied with huge heart:

"The Bottle is Your Heart"

“Katja… I love you!”

And then Katja expanded on her gift:

“Love you too, Miss!!!!

I always consciously acknowledge times that are simply blissful and connect with their blue print for later use!!!

I like the visual of “bottling” the energy.

Since negative thought patterns cruise around for a while, these much more pleasant times do too, so let’s catch ourselves some of the bubbles of JOY, FUN, BLISS and shower in them whenever we are are in a less uplifted mood.”

But of course! What a great idea, bottling the energy of feel good…why not? The best plan ever! And so I replied:

“Brilliant way of putting it, Katja! Love it!”

Finding the Good Stuff~

We all know that focusing on a good feeling thought brings more good feeling thoughts…and good feelings.

And, let’s face it. Sometimes when we’re feeling blue, it can feel tricky at best to find the better feeling thoughts that lead to a better feeling place.

Katja’s right. Pleasant times and experiences cruise around us all the time. In fact, in my opinion, much more often than the unpleasant ones do. Some of us have just trained ourselves to notice the unpleasant more than the pleasant. (Strange beings, we humans.)

What if we committed to re-training. What if we committed to recognizing, appreciating, basking and down right LOVING the pleasant-ness around us each and every day…down to the smallest of details.

Fill it Up!

I love doing that. It’s great fun to pause in the moment and look around…feel around…drink in all the precious pleasant things that surround me…right now…

• A purring cat,
• a dreaming dog,
• a crystal carnelian orb,
• a salt crystal lamp’s glow,
• the wind dancing in the trees outside my window,
• the smell of lavender and wintergreen,
• bright-vivid gold of Black-eyed Susans,
• feeling of inspired creation bubbling to the surface,
• excitement of new opportunities on the horizon,
• rested contentment and peaceful, easy feeling of flow,
• …Mmmm.

Your turn. Right here, right now. Give it a try…

• What do you see, feel, hear, taste, touch, sense?
• Dig deep if you have to…extend your awareness.
• Surely there’s something right exactly where you’re positioned.
• What pleasant yumminess can you find to appreciate?
• Need inspiration? Look out a window and prepare to be amazed.
• Nature will always offer some (or many) pleasant things to notice and bask in.

I love Katja’s metaphor; the bottle is your heart. It’s true! And it has limitless space!

Fill it intentionally with all things good.

And when the time comes when you’re feeling less than brilliant, open that bottle and shower yourself in goodness!

The Blueprint~

Katja’s ‘blueprint’ analogy is awesome.

The blueprint is our map, our foundation, our compass…and it’s an exact match to what becomes. The better the blueprint, the better the outcome.

In fact, the better the blueprint, the EVEN better the outcome as a good blueprint always leaves room for improvement…so we know it’ll be at least that good, or better!

Appreciation & Acknowledgment!

Thanks Katja, for sharing these inspired metaphors!

• Here’s to acknowledging the blissful, the pleasant, the joyful and the awesomeness.

• Here’s to connecting to the very blueprint of the experience so that it can be re-created as good or better again and again.

• Here’s to bottling the energy of it all in our heart of hearts so that we can, at our choosing, shower in its infinite goodness whenever and wherever we desire to.

So…

What are you finding that’s magically delicious to bottle today?

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I know. That title could take us a variety of places. You’ll soon see where I’m going.

Alternate Title:

Cruella Cloudy with a Chance of Sunshine Meets Suzy Sunshine with a Chance of Clouds

or

Who Are You…and What Did You Do with My Rose Colored Glasses?

The past forever (scratch that, three weeks) have been some of the most challenging (scratch that, interesting) in the story of me and my becoming in a long while.

The usual naturally JOYful, centered, clear, aware, in-her-Brilliance-with-a-capital-B has taken a back seat to someone I haven’t seen much of in a very long time.

This visitor was uninvited and her arrival came as quite a shock, to say the least. …and like the occasional visitor that we’ve all had, it seemed as though there was no intended check out date!

Checking In…

What?!? You mean, I’ve got to live with this Mini Me?!? I’ve got to put up with this less-than-all-that-I-AM-me…this not-so-shiny-playing-small-for-no-real-apparent-reason-at-all me?!? What’s up with that?!?

Mini Me is in the House

To be completely honest, I don’t know how I could possibly have managed this intruder (uh, I mean, guest)…except that Mini Me did agree to take frequent down time so that I could still see, feel and touch the Bigger Me…the Brilliant, Joyful, Got-shine! me.

Just ask Mark, my hubby; having Mini Me in the house has been less than a picnic for him, too. However, he’s been the perfect example of “well, that’s your parade…I’ve got my own and you’re not raining on it!” For Abraham fans that’s a good thing.

Mark knows that to leave his Brilliance (his Vortex as Abe calls it) in order to assist another is futile. So from his shiny vantage point, he continues to see me with my shine on (and trust me, that’s not been super easy these days with Mini Me running rampant). He showers love and continues to walk in his light, knowing, *trusting* that eventually (let’s face it, hopefully sooner than later) I’ll meet him in the light.

Out of the Blue~

Some of you may be wondering… So where did Mini Me come from? Why this visit now? (and who gave Mini Me a passport & visiting visa here, anyway?!?) OK…well, I wondered that.

Trust me. I’ve been asking myself these questions, too.

Here’s the tricky part. Knowing what I know… I know that I am responsible for my reality. I create every tiny detail of it. I can not blame anything or anyone outside of me for *making* this happen. I *can* observe certain things that *may* encourage me to dull my own shine and shrink back from my Bigger Me, my Brilliant Me. …knowing full well that if I go there it’s MY choice.

I can tell stories like, I feel like I’ve lost my best friend ‘cause he’s out paddling every (OK, not every) day with his new buds and it’s just so different for me. I can tell stories like, why does he have all the fun while I just sit here taking care of dull details? I can tell stories like, I’m bummed, I don’t feel well, my back hurts, and no one likes me! Waaaaa!!!!
(Oh brother! Is that what I’ve been sounding like?! Sheesh! …and ew. Seriously. Shudders.)

Mini Me in the House!

So here I am as Mini Me. I still have access to Bigger *Brilliant* Me…but I’m keeping her at arms length.
There will be no Suzy Sunshine wearing her Rose Colored Glasses ‘round these parts right now!
OY! Seriously?!?

(Who’s ready to have me admitted? LOL Did you know you were dealing with a crazy??)

Abraham shares stories about Esther and her experience staying out of the Vortex for two whole days straight! *gasp!* Hah! While that’s given me comfort on some levels, two days is nothin’! I’ve got that beat by a landslide.
OK, wait. Am I being too harsh on myself?
Who’s writing this anyway? Mini Me? You’re outta here!

Taking the Bounce~

Truth is I’ve had lots of ‘Bounce’ experiences within these last three weeks. Plenty of moments where I found myself playing small and less than I know myself to be. Plenty of moments where I found myself on the opposite end of my usual spectrum where everything is sunshine and roses. (It’s dark over there! …and kind of creepy.) Thankfully, I was still in touch with the bounce. I knew that when I hit the contrast of the doom and gloom, woe is me experience that it created a provocative bounce to what I really wanted…making that super clear (…even if seemingly out of reach at times, available).

Contrast has been, shall we say, BIG from my perspective (and that’s the only place I can see it from).

From my Brilliance, the world around me is still painted magically delicious! All is WELL. Vibrant, alive, blissful, peaceful, JOYously, perfectly, amazing.

Thank God I can see that!!!

I remember a time when Mini Me was a larger part of my reality, and Bigger Brilliant Shining Me was still a growing part of my reality…unfolding petal by petal like the rose coming into full bloom.

The petals of this rose are in continuous unfolding.  (There are a LOT of petals, I choose when I’m complete…and I can always add more petals. It’s a BIG, beautiful rose.) Mini Me is now like an ant crawling amidst the gorgeousness that I’ve created…that I continue to create.

For what ever reason, I’ve been holding a magnifying glass up to Mini Me…amping her power, giving her more magnification in my experience.

Funny thought: Where was the sun while I was choosing to hold up that magnifying glass? Had I been shining, I’d have fried her!

Too scary? Sorry. Hopefully you can receive the metaphor.

Are You IN or Out?

Abraham also says that most of us live our life experience more out than in, regarding the vortex…or living in our Joy of Brilliance as I like to say.

I’ve had the experience of living more IN than out. And I want that. Always good to know (and be clear about) what we want…creates an ease and flow path right to it. Whew for that, huh?

So has Mini Me left the building? No. Not entirely. And I’m guessing that’s a good thing. If it weren’t for her, I wouldn’t be as aware as I am, I may not be as able to relate to others as I assist and guide them take their bounces and come into their most amazing Joy of Brilliance.

Am I ready to step back into my shine and take my place at the helm of this magnificent journey I continue to embark on? Absolutely!

Will I be gentle with myself if Mini Me slides into the front seat again? I sure hope so.

The Credits!

In my next post, I’ll share a video that came to me via Kelly, a Joy of Brilliance fan and Earth Harmony Home frequent flyer. It was Kelly’s email and link that lit the fire of inspiration for this post. The Bigger Me was SO desiring to write. Mini Me had a lock on the keys.

Thanks to Kelly for being more than she knows in my experience! What a catalyst. Love and Hugs to you, Kelly. All aspects of me are in appreciation of YOU…and your Joy of Brilliance, in this shining moment right now.

Thanks to all of you reading this. Knowingly, or unknowingly…you’re all a part of what makes my desire to shine so great. I love and appreciate each and everyone of you for being here…and for growing in your Joy of Brilliance each and every day.

Joy is the Journey. The destination? Does it matter?
(Ooo…I *like* that! Yup. Juices are flowing. Brilliance engaged. Woo-Hoo!!)

Talk to Me~

Have any of you had any *you* vs. *YOU* experiences lately?

I’d love to hear about them… Always so good to know we’re in good company. LOL

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This family, Rupert, Kristen and their soon to be 5 year old autistic son, Rowan took the journey of a lifetime…together.  The outward journey in and of itself is a mystery to behold.

For me, the real journey lies in the commitment Rupert had to his inner guidance and the commitment Kristen had to believing in Rupert’s seeming insanity around making this trip to Mongolia with their very young, very autistic child.  Kristen’s knowing was that trusting her beloved husband’s knowing was enough…the rest would work itself out.

Are you saying YES! to your journey?

The story wraps itself around the travels on horseback in extreme conditions, meeting shamans, and eventually *the* shaman who brings healing to Rowan’s continuous bouts of tantrum, incontinence (imagine the worst), and seeming inability to relate with the world of humanity around him.  All of this birthed from Rupert’s desire to connect with his son and his observations of Rowan’s clear, deep connection with horses.  Rupert, having grown up with horses, knows the power of their presence and the deep wisdom that abides there.  On a whim, he introduces Rowan to horses, first Betsy…and in that introduction their lives would be forever changed, the journey of their lifetime was born…and so it unfolded.

Rupert’s telling of the story reads like a brilliant adventure novel.  At many points it’s hard to imagine that this telling is truth–reality experience, and not fiction.  I don’t know many people who’ve lived a story like this.  And yet, this family has.

As the father of an autistic child, Rupert’s heart is huge.  He wants what any parent wants.

• He wants the very best life for his son.
• He wants his son to know love, to experience life and all it’s blessings.
• He wants to know his son.
• He wants his son to know him.

These very things that many of us fleetingly take for granted; Rupert can’t.  He needs a bridge to Rowan’s world; he’s seemingly separated from his son’s experience…and he wants a road in.  With horses and his intuition he finds the road and follows it.

For me, the most important pieces of this story that changed the course of this family’s life forever were not the ones that took them journeying to far-reaching corners of the earth, through challenging adversities that most would never even fathom, much less say realistically consider.  Instead, I believe the most important pieces of were the ones that let them know that listening to their inner guidance, their inner-most truths and following *that* journey of discovery with themselves and each other is what created the ‘healing’ that Rupert lovingly sought for his son.

The Road to Our Joy of Brilliance

And was it healing?  Or was it the continuous path to heightened awareness and alignment that drew them all into the space of coherence and understanding.  The place where they met their autistic son Rowan for the first time and where Rowan could comfortably and brilliantly present the wholeness of himself to his parents and the world.

When we commit to our deepest knowing and allow that to set the course for the unfolding of our JOY of Brilliance, the most immensely beautiful expression of that which we are born to be, we are FREE.  In this space, the world opens up to us and not only anything is possible…EVERYthing is possible.

Did Rupert, Kristen and Rowan need to take the physical journey across the world to meet their destiny?  Maybe.  Because for them, it was the (their) way.  And it was perfect.  For them, in their timing…in the brilliance of their being-ness.

Rupert is a human rights activist/journalist.  Kristen, a psychology professor.  Rowan, a child of autism…whose world becomes open to all when he is in nature, with animals he loves.  In this world, he experiences relationships that are untethered, in grace and ease, filled with mutual knowing, trust, respect and connection.  In this world, he is set free and his world makes sense in relationship to the world around him.

Does this mean we all need to physically journey in this way to find our true nature, our Joy of Brilliance?  Of course not.  …only if our hearts are calling us to do so.

When something calls us, from the inside…calls us so strong that our hearts leap in anticipation, wonder and joy, that’s when we do best to respond with a resounding YES! and allow life to show us the magnificence it has in store.

Riding on horseback across the steppe in Mongolia is one way.  There are many.  The path to our Joy of Brilliance is unique to each of us.  It’s not hard to find.  The map is well laid within us.  The key is easy to read.  Our only challenge may be to step up and say YES!

• Do you have a sense that there’s more to life, more to your life, than you’re currently living?

• Do you know that it may be as easy as choosing JOY in as many moments as possible?

• What would it look like if you really listened, gave attention to, honored your heart’s desires?

• What would it look like if you said YES! to one deep burning desire each day that you’ve been turning a deaf ear or a blind eye to?

• What kind of a difference might that make in your experience?

• What would that difference, a difference that feels really, really good, be worth?

YOU ARE WORTH IT!

If there’s one thing Rupert and Kristen know now, at the end of their journey (which is never an end…only another new beginning) it’s that they wouldn’t trade it for the world.  Their journey gave them the fullness of their lives.  It gave them their son, in a way they didn’t know was possible.
It gave each of them a more brilliant, JOYful, awake, aware, alive version of themselves.  Who could ask for more?

What aspect of your journey will you say YES! to today?

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For those of you who read my blog and perhaps aren’t yet familiar with Abraham,  Esther, and the Vortex…Abraham describes themselves as a group consciousness from the non-physical dimension.  Esther, who Abraham inspiringly speaks through, refers to Abraham as ‘infinite intelligence’.  And the Vortex?  Well, that’s where we are, when everything we’re being, and everything we’re doing, comes from our most aligned selves.  It’s our ’sweet spot’.

For me, I see the Vortex as our Joy of Brilliance.  It’s that place that is the YOU of you.  It’s that ever-glowing flame of divinity within, it’s our true nature, it’s what makes us come alive!

Once Outside, How to Get Back In?

For Esther to be experiencing a 24 Hour Out-of-the-Vortex Bug was a pretty big deal.  She pops in and out of her Joy of Brilliance like the rest of us…but to pop out and stay out for more than a little while…well, that was not common.
In fact, when we spend a lot of time tuned in to our Joy of Brilliance, or in the vortex as Abraham refers to it…spending even a little time outside of it is less than pleasant.

Abraham talked with her…reminded her of ways she could coax herself back into her greatest alignment.  (Of course, that’s where we love to be, because it’s from there that all things are possible…in complete grace and ease.)

Esther wasn’t having it.  She was just in a place. And I guess, we can all relate…sometimes we just feel like being ba-hum-buggy.

After some time, Abraham suggested that perhaps Esther would enJOY (hmm…that’s a vortexy word) thinking of words for each letter of the ABC’s that come from within the vortex.

She agreed…though she didn’t feel it would make any difference.

Abraham, unattached, said that was fine and they proceeded to play with the Vortexy ABC’s.

Feel Your Way to Feeling Better with the ABC’s~

So, from Esther’s ‘out of the vortex’ perspective she reached for a word that was from inside the vortex that began with the letter A.

Esther said, “Appreciation”.  (She wasn’t feeling it.  It was just a mental exercise.)

“What else?”, asked Abraham.

“Allowing.”  “Alignment.”  (Wasn’t feeling either one; they were just words.)

After finding those three words, Abraham asked Esther if she could now find the feeling of Appreciation.  She said she couldn’t, but that it was fun asking.
They moved on to the letter B.  Esther immediately said, “Basking”.

Now, this word moved Esther’s energy a little bit.  She LOVES to bask.  She is the ultimate basker.
Abraham asked Esther, “what is basking?”.  Esther said, “I don’t know, what is it?”.
Abraham replied, “basking is looking around your immediate vicinity for something to feel good about”.

Esther also thought of Balance, but Basking was by far the best for her.

They moved on to the letter C.  Esther thought of Clarity.
Abraham says that Esther loves the feeling of clarity, in opposition to confusion…the feeling of clarity moved Esther’s energy in a further good direction.

Then D for Deliciousness
E for Energy.  Ease.
And then F for Flow.
Ease and Flow.  Ease and Flow.  That felt pretty good to Esther.

Then, she moved on to G for Goodness.
H for Happy.
I for Inspired.
and…
J for JERRY!  (Esther’s husband and supreme love of her life!)

It Doesn’t Take Much!

By this time the exercise was complete for Esther.  Getting to J and Jerry and moving through Basking and Deliciousness, Ease and Flow on the way there felt amazing to her.

Her energy had shifted and she found herself back home in her vortex.

Isn’t it amazing how very simple it can be?

Esther didn’t have to ‘figure anything out’.  She didn’t have to waffle back and forth…banter about. 
She didn’t even have to know why she was out of her Joy of Brilliance, her vortex…she just played a little with finding words that felt better until the energy shifted enough to where she was aligned again and feeling like her usual vortexy self.

This is really what life is about.
Abraham always says, “The basis of your life is freedom.  The purpose of your life is joy.”
Period.  It’s that’s simple and I whole-heartedly agree.

Later in this same recording, Abraham reminds us that we’ve done enough of the ‘work’.
Now, it’s time to release resistance, bring relief.  Our only work is to Appreciate and Bask and find Clarity and look for Delicious Ease and Flow.

Our only work is to look for what feels good in life and do that…from the heart.

This particular track spoke to me SO deeply!  And…what a FUN journey to JOY…the ABC’s!!

Abraham ended this session with these words that are oh so right up my alley.

“You gotta play more.  You gotta laugh more.  You gotta release more.  You gotta think less.  You wanna meditate more.  You wanna bask more.  In other words, don’t make it a thinking game, let it be a feeling game…and then watch what happens!  So much there for you!”

Amen to that!

Let’s Play!

Let’s feel our way to FUN in our JOY of Brilliance…and pick up where Abraham and Esther left off in their alphabet game.

Which words inspire you to your best feeling place…

I’ll begin by adding a couple that Esther didn’t…  Bet you can’t guess WHAT they would be???

J for JOY  (Sorry Jerry, I love and appreciate you…but JOY is my J word)
B for Brilliance  (Cause you know how I love it when we shine like the sun!)

OK…your turn…

**This post is loosely scripted from the Boca Raton Vortex of Creation Workshop Series from 2010.  Deep love and appreciation to Abraham-Hicks for their continual inspiration and Joy of Brilliance inducements.**

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I love the whole thing.

The story~

Jessica showcasing her FEEL GOOD rampage (see video below).

Jessica’s all out JOY about Life is infectious in the absolute best way possible.  Her JOY of Brilliance is shining.  BIG Time!!

And the story behind the story~

In the comments on YouTube it says that this video was made in 2001, and that though it sounds like Jessica starts out by saying, “Look!  I can be a Sark!”, she actually has no idea who Sark (the famous, inspiring, JOY-ilicious author is)…and in fact has no idea what she was referring to all those years ago.

Apparently Jessica, now 12 1/2 is surprised at her sudden YouTube fame (her Dad’s a wee bit shocked as well).  The video is quickly going viral over the last couple of weeks.  According to Jessica’s Dad, the video hung out around 1,000 views for a long, long while and has just now skyrocketed!

When the timing’s right, it’s right!  You GO, Jessica!!

I’m all about going on a FEEL GOOD rampage.
Doing it Jessica style, on the bathroom counter, in my PJ’s, may add another level of JOY to the ritual!
I’m gonna give it a try.
How about you?

Oh Jessica?  Thanks for showing us, with complete and utter JOYful finesse, how it’s done!

…and Jessica?  For the record, I like your hair, too! 

And now…

On with the Show!  Starring Jessica and Her Amazing Daily Affirmations!!!

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Not geographically… Rather, emotionally, mentally, physically, spiritually…etc.

JOY of Brilliance is my chosen, beloved, ecstatically WONDER-full State of Being.

When giving presentations, I share it like this…

“Where do I live?  I live in a State of Being called Joy of Brilliance.  And I have a second ‘home’ I love equally; it’s the pathway to Joy of Brilliance if ever I feel  displaced from my Joy of Brilliance, and it’s another state that just feels so good.  In fact, both feel so good that I’ve learned to bi-locate and live in both simultaneously.  That state is the State of Appreciation!

Joy of Brilliance, when matched with a State of Appreciation is a place of BEing-ness that FEELS SO GOOD.  It is a ‘Connected to the Source Within Us’, JOY-full, Brilliant State of Being that exudes our uniqueness, our naturalness, the magic of Who We Really Are.”

When we live in and from natural Joy of Brilliance…

• we are ALIVE in all senses of the word…
• and we THRIVE blissfully in all we are…
• not to mention in all we do.

How do you find your JOY of Brilliance?

• You FEEL your way there!
• By focusing on what FEELS GOOD…
• By focusing on how you want to feel, and choosing to feel that right now.

I ask again…

• Which State do you live in?
• Are you choosing consciously?
• Does it FEEL GOOD there?

Joy of Brilliance has room for everyone!  It’s an open circle…a community of yumminess!!

Are you coming?

Joy of Brilliance Guidance~

I lovingly assist others to their own Joy of Brilliance,
through the gateway of Self Love,
following Path of Feel Good,
where we re-member that our thoughts create our reality…
and the reality we desire is to live JOY first and foremost.

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The word BEAM…ever so slowing created space in the center…now revealing two words.  Be Am.
How profound, I thought.  I’d never thought of the word ‘beam’ in this way before.
For someone who’s all about shining her brilliance and beaming the light of her Divine Spark just because it feels so good, you’d have thought I may have considered this nifty word’s hidden message before.

BEAM ~

How cool is it that BEAM, which defined as a noun means:

1. A ray or shaft of light
* a directional flow of particles or radiation (energy beam)
2. A radiant or good-natured look or smile (a beam of satisfaction)

And that BEAM, when defined as a verb means:

1. transmit (energy) in a specified direction
2. shine brightly
3. smile radiantly

…how cool is it that BEAM as it is defined is so magically supportive of the two words brilliantly encoded within it, BE and AM?!?

Got BeAm?

My Joy of Brilliance Messengers rock so deep!  They know just how much I LOVE words and discovering more to them than meets the eye, so to speak.

Awakening to this BEAMing sign was one of those moments that has left me tingling with JOY ever since.

BE and AM ~

I’m sure I learned this somewhere back in the history of my grammatical English training.  And I’m sure I haven’t thought about it a day since.  Until now.

• The words BE and AM are representative of one another.
• ‘Am’ is the 1st person singular present of ‘Be’.
• Of course it is!

Both words have the same definition.
Be and Am ~

1. exist
2. occur; take place
3. having the state, quality, identity, nature, role, etc., specified

BEAM the AHA!

When we BEAM our BE AM-ness, we shine our light into the world from the inside, out…exuding the very qualities of our Joy of Brilliance!

It’s the eternal I AM.  It’s BE-ing.  It’s beam, with a wonderful, magical, brilliant capital B!

From this point forward BEAM will forever hold a deeper, more meaningful significance in the expression of my Joy of Brilliance.
I’m beaming with JOY, visualizing each and every one of you receiving this message of BeAm-ness into your experience.

‘Shine on’ rides side car today.
‘BEAM on’ is in the driver’s seat. Be Am your Joy of Brilliance to the max!

What will you BeAm today?
BEAM me up…let me hear all about it!

**All definitions courtesy of my MacBook Pro Dictionary**

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The space and time for me since my sleighing accident a month ago has been interesting to say the least.

There were aspects of that experience that were miraculous in nature.  Like how quickly my body responded to my thoughts of well-being, vitality, strength and resiliency.  Like how I managed to consciously choose to ‘spring back’ in speedy fashion, rather than dwell in the depths of pain and misery.  Like how when I made those choices everything in my experience showed up to support my decision.

And there were aspects of that experience that gelled in the under current for awhile.  Aspects that bubbled up slowly, with gaining intensity two weeks after the sleighing fun gone awry.

Feeling the Fear

I’m referring to FEAR here.  Suddenly it was as if every ‘monster under the bed’ had been unleashed and my world was seemingly turning into a scary movie right before my very eyes.

I felt akin to a crazy person during this time.

If you know me, I like crazy…but crazy in a good way…crazy in a leading edge, this feels good, loving the experience of awesomeness in life kind of crazy.

This was a different kind of crazy.  I felt as if someone had hacked my system, as if someone had taken over my being-ness.  It didn’t feel good. I didn’t like it.  And the more I didn’t like it, the stronger it seemed to get.  (Go figure.  Lesson #1: What we give power to, manifests.)

Feel the Fear

I felt afraid of living.  It started out that I was just feeling intensely afraid to go to the barn to be with my horsey girl and the other horses there.  I was deathly afraid to ride…and even being on the ground with her made me edgy.  (Not at all fair to her, made her plenty edgy too…but that’s for another post.)
The fear seemed to seep into everything I did.  Day or night.  My usual bubbly, confident, JOYful self had withered into a soppy mess of feeling small, unworthy and pitiful.

The craziest part of all is that I was fully aware of ALL of this while it was happening!
I could see (and feel) myself going through this as if watching from an out-of-body place.  And the Joy of Brilliance part of me…my most aligned, gloriously in the vortex self watched with patient curiosity.  Never judging.  Just observing.  And waiting.  Knowing that I’d make the turn and come right round eventually.

The Fight

Then there was this other part of me that reared up from within.  The part of me that still ‘shoulds’ on me from time to time.

This part of me kept saying things like, “What is your problem?  Snap out of it.  You ‘should’ know better than this.  This fear isn’t even real.  This fear is illusion.  You’ve been through worse.  What is your deal, anyway? FEAR = False Evidence Appearing Real.  Haven’t you learned anything?!?”

Ouch; thanks for beating myself up for no good reason is what I think about that!

But the inner dialog continued.  Until, like a pimple coming to a head that just suddenly bursts, I felt the release oozing from within and turned the corner to my greater well-being…which was now an ever-expanded-better-than-ever version of well-being due to the enormous contrast I gave myself. (Sorry for the graphic nature of that metaphor, somehow it’s just really right on.)

The shift came after days and days of doing my best to sort it all out…to just get over it…I kept feeling like I just needed to get over it.

The shift came after days and days of me haunting myself with the saying, Face the fear and do it anyway.  I tried.  I tried facing my fear and doing it any way.  Whether ‘it’ was riding my horse or anything else that was evoking the feeling of fear within me right then…  It didn’t feel good.  And I KNOW that’s not the path to ANY thing.  If it doesn’t feel good it’s an immediate flashing indicator that I’m pointing in the wrong direction.

The Shift

The shift came when I decided to soften, to let go.  I decided to let go of the need to NOT feel the fear.  I decided that I was just going to feel it.  And importantly, I decided I was not going to push feeling it more.  I was just going to relax with the what-is-ness of it all.  I was done with resistance.  I surrendered.

Funny part is, I thought I *was* doing this already.  But, I guess I wasn’t.  I was tapping the vein, but there was so much resistance, I couldn’t flow.  I was blocked.  Moving in resistance is like moving through quick sand…up, out and forward is challenging at best.

As soon as I truly surrendered and let go, I felt this rush of relief.  My entire body softened.  My regular breathing returned.  And pain that had stealthily crept back into my body magically melted away.

I still felt some fear. But, I knew I was now headed in the direction of my greater alignment…and I could feel my world returning.

I gave myself permission to do something else if I didn’t feel good…if I didn’t like what I was doing ‘cause I was feeling fear around it.

I wouldn’t trade this experience for anything.  I have a new appreciation for fear. I have a new appreciation of my understanding of fear in my experience, what it is and how I am now better equipped to deal with it, by simply acknowledging it and finding a better feeling place.

What did I learn?

• I learned that feeling good is always, no matter what, the best indicator and the best direction to move in.
  • (Knew that.  Apparently there was another level of knowing it available!)
• I learned that feeling the fear and doing it anyway is complete do-do.
  • (Haha!  Double meaning there.  I meant do-do as in poo.  And now, I see do-do as in the doing of something that is action without alignment!  LOVE that!)

As is often the case, I was on the road to feeling better when I discovered two Abraham videos I had never heard before.  (Probably because fear is not something I usually ‘search’ for.  We get what we need when we need it.  I needed this.  Thanks Abraham!!!)

If you haven’t heard these tracks, I highly recommend them.  If you’re here reading this, there’s something here for you!  (Watch the videos below)

Here are a few of my favorite stand-out quotes from the 2 part Abraham tracks on Fear, Mexico Cruise 2010:

“Fear is not a representation of something to come.  Nor is it a warning bell that is saying to you, watch out, something that you do not want to happen is about to happen.  What FEAR IS is THE SENSATION YOU GET WHEN YOU FOCUS IN OPPOSITION TO WHO YOU REALLY ARE AND WHAT YOU REALLY WANT.”

“I appreciate my fear, as I appreciate all negative emotion; because it’s an indication of two things…  It’s an indication that what I want is moving very fast in the opposite direction of what I’m thinking right now…  and it’s an indication of the power of my desire.”

“If you sit on a park bench and you have a fear come over you, and you think there may be a monster in the bushes…whether there’s a monster there or not, get off the bench.  In other words, don’t sit there.  Don’t ever endure fear.  Do something…do anything you can do to give yourself ease.  In other words, there’s no value in “overcoming fear”.  What you want to do is come into alignment with the energy that is the opposite of the thought you’re thinking that has produced the fear.”

Are there any monsters hiding beneath your bed?
How do you handle fear?
Have you trained yourself to feel the fear and do it anyway?
Tell me about it…!

Abraham on Fear, Part 1

Abraham on Fear, Part 2

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Relax, Relate, Release!

Jeannette caught them and asked me to repeat them…

And so I did, along with an explanation of where I’d originally sourced the phrase…except my memory recall wasn’t as ‘on’ as I’d have preferred it to be and I couldn’t remember the name of the show!

Thanks to the Google Gods and Goddesses that assist me so quickly and joyously, I FOUND IT!!!

The show was called A Different World. The main character was Whitley, played by Jasmine Guy. (On the call I said the character’s name was Jasmine uh…at least I was in the ball park?!) I LOVED that show!!!

I found a YouTube video from THE EXACT episode where Whitley learned to Relax, Relate, Release.

Let it Go!

My sis’s and I have been using that line ever since it aired in 1991. Guess I’ve been LOA savvy for longer than I was even aware. (Not true…I knew I was, just didn’t know what it was called!)

You see, those three magic R words, relax, relate, release do wonders at aligning us vibrationally with what it is we desire…which sets us up to allow for the receiving in a JOYful, ease and grace manner.  My FAVORITE way to manifest!

Ever since Whitley taught me this technique all those years ago…I’ve known the power they give to my manifesting mojo and I use them frequently.

The video embedding seems to be disabled.  Here’s a link that will take you to the video on YouTube…it’s worth the seven minutes; good laughs, deep meaning (well, as deep as Whitley’s character can take us, anyway!)

Watch for the 2 minute mark…and then BINGO!…RELAX, RELATE, RELEASE! (excuse the quality…and enJOY the moment)

Relax, Relate, Release! with Whitley on A Different World (YouTube Link)

I love how the humor of this show allows the vibration of release to assimilate itself into our awareness with JOY, Grace and Ease…my favorite way to embody anything!

Now, journey with Whitley on YouTube…learn to Relax, Relate, Release as only Whitley can teach…and then come back & share your experiences with Relax, Relate, Release!

In addition to the 3 R’s…what other fun tips do you exercise to allow manifesting to be JOYful and in ease and grace?

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Did you ever have one of those days where everything you did left you flying high?  Yesterday was one of those days for me.

It started with my Manifestation Success Story and me being guests on one of Good Vibe University’s calls, hosted by Good Vibe Coach, Jeannette Maw.

On the call I shared the pretty darn incredible (if I do say so myself) story of how we (and when I say WE, I mean the ONEness, collective energy essence of the word to the max)…how WE manifested the clean, clear, smooth sale of our house…the house we used to own in Colorado.

After a year and a half on the market, we needed to pull out all the stops!  And we did!  With a little ton of help from our Outsourcerer friends at Good Vibe University we created a reality that knocked my socks off and got me dancing the Happy Dance all over the place for days!!

Listen in!  I’ve been told the call was inspiring on many levels.  I know it inspired me just being a part of it.  As I said, it got me flying high…and I’m still feeling it!

You may have read my recent post, Outsourcerers ~ The Power of Shared Manifesting.  And you may have noticed I’ve been sharing quite a lot lately about my experiences with the good vibers in Jeannette’s community.

That’s because some amazingly BRILLIANT stuff has been going on!  Wanna come and play?  Click here to become a member at GVU and let’s get even more JOY on together!

Love to hear from you!

Love, love, LOVE to hear your thoughts after you listen…please share in the comment stream…I’ll see you there!

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I had an OY! moment just a few days ago.

My horse and I were out for a lovely sleigh ride…

Horse Play

It was MAGICAL! Sun glistening on new fallen snow…birds singing in the quiet woods…just she and I dashing along on a one horse open sleigh. It was so enJOYable that I was singing songs to her…and I’m sure she was liking it!

JOY!

When suddenly…!

While coming across one of the fields I saw my boarder’s hubby coming down the drive on a new to the farm horse. The mare was weaving and bobbing and didn’t look like she was too excited to be being ridden. My horse hadn’t met this horse before…in fact the new horse hadn’t properly met any of the horses on the farm yet.  (There’s a certain protocol that’s helpful when introducing a new horse to the herd.)

All of the horses were getting a little amped. I quieted my Lindy as best I could…I was feeling anxious right along w/the herd (not my job, 1st signal that I was creating a reality I may not desire.)
Boarder’s hubby & his mare kept approaching and I yelled out to them that I didn’t feel like it was a good idea for them to come over and ride with us.
He insisted we’d all be fine.

OY!

And if I’d have bought his version of reality all would have been fine…
For me, it didn’t feel right (and thus I played my role in creating what happened next).

All 30 horses on the farm went crazy at once.
My horse (and me on the very open, nothing to hang on to, nothing to brace myself on, box sleigh) took off at FULL speed.  I did my best to bring her in…calm her down to a halt but she was not thinking about me or listening…she was OFF like a rocket.

I started sliding and in the moment felt I had two choices,

1. to slide down off the front of the sleigh and have it run over me…
2. to bail and fly off the side of the very fast moving sleigh.

I chose to bail.

OY!
I blacked out, lost my hearing for a few moments…and then came to and felt pretty OK.

My horse continued running like a crazy girl…eventually destroying the sleigh, wood splinters & bits flying every where…which caused all the horses in their pastures to panic, bolt and break through several fence lines.

OY!

It was utter mayhem!

The good news is…everyone is fine, no broken bones, nothing super serious.  (JOY!)

A stiff reality

The next day I was VERY, very sore and stiff…concerned some what about my neck, feeling not so great about how and why this all happened and how I took part in creating it, etc.

You see, you know me…I’m the one who believes wholeheartedly that we create our reality.  That’s true no matter what the reality is.  Good…or what we may consider less than good.

• I felt like this could happen, thereby creating space for it in my reality
• I felt strongly that I did not want Boarder’s Hubby & new mare to approach & ride w/us, but I did not clearly state my feelings and I didn’t say NO, thereby creating more space for something that did not feel good to me in my reality
• I felt fear, thereby creating misalignment and separation from Source/My Brilliance
• I saw a less than desirable outcome in my mind’s eye…and my horse responded to meet my expectations

All the while I could have chosen to see things differently, but I was caught up in a state of ‘oh-no!’…and I went with it.
It’s OK.  It happens sometimes.  And all of life is on purpose.

I’ve been so busy of late…enJOYing every moment of it, and at the same time feeling the need to have some slow down time.

Funny, right? (Know where I’m going…?)

I was enjoying my pace and activity so much that even though a part of me was requesting some slow down time…I wasn’t listening and probably wouldn’t have given it to myself without this (fast paced) situation.  Hah!  (Yeah, thanks for that reminder…I’ll make better choices next time!)  *Catch 22 is…I was giving myself some ME time with my horsey…one of my favorite things to do for me.*

On the plus side… (JOY!) I got myself some couch R&R time.  This body was in no shape for taking clients, etc.  I needed to just BE.

As I pondered what had happened and how much of me was feeling pretty darn aligned with OY!  I started feeling that feeling I’ve always got going for me…deep down…

I’ve got that Joy, Joy, Joy, Joy

…down in my heart… 

I ran right over (virtually, of course) to my friends in the Outsourcerers Forum at Good Vibe University.  I knew that if I shared my OY! story that they’d support me in turning it right ‘round to JOY! lickity-split.

I requested that they see me and my body finding our way back to our usual vibrant, strong, vital, supple, happy place…and I invited them to have fun and embellish the manifestation intentions in any way they saw fit.

It came as no surprise that I felt better immediately.  I had released the ‘story’…and was on my way to creating a better feeling place, a new story…and I had friends supporting my journey! (I’ll share some of the outsourcerer magic they sent me in the comment stream…)
JOY!

The moral of the story?

There are many…  In the interest of keeping it light, it feels good to me to recognize that the distance between OY! and JOY! is purely what we make of it.  In fact, just look at it…

OY! only needs one letter to turn it into JOY! Pretty quick and easy, huh?

It’s as easy as a choice.

• A choice to turn around and feel better.
• A choice to see things in a better feeling light…no matter how dim one reality may seem.

I could have wallowed in physical, emotional, mental pain…I had some of each.

Alternatively…

• I chose to get connected with the good stuff.
• I chose to align with the miraculous nature of my body’s ability to spring back to health and wholeness.
• I chose to enlist the support of friends and family I knew would see me as my brilliant, happy, shining self
• …thereby supporting it to reality.

As I write this it’s just 48 hours since I flew from the sleigh.

• I’m cozy on the couch; giving myself what I need…rest and recharging time.
• Sun’s streaming in the windows.
• House is quiet and peaceful…accented by the fire crackling in the fireplace.
• I’m happy, content, feeling restful.
• My body is finding her way back to being her pain free…vital, vibrant self.  (Miraculously fast, I might add!)
• And I’m aligned with my Brilliance…feeling my JOY and laughing at the OY that was.

Life is Good.

Has there been an OY turned to JOY moment for you recently?

• How did you turn it around?
• Was the distance between OY and JOY great, or small?
• Have you recently made the choice to close the gap and create transformation?
• Have you feel an OY coming on & switched up the vibe quickly enough to add the J before it was anything less than JOY?

Tell me about it…!

Out of OY…and IN JOY!
Debra

Photo Credit:  My very own Lindy Rose w/Barn/Boarder Mistress on the sleigh

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“Beliefs are just thoughts that you keep on thinking; they’re just a habit of thought.  It’s just sort of the way you’ve always thought it, and so it is the way your are now thinking it.”

This one quote means so much and applies in so many different ways and scenarios.

Right now it’s got me considering the awesomely light and transformative power of those words.

“Beliefs are just thoughts we keep on thinking.”

We make it seem so challenging at times to change our beliefs.
In fact, sometimes we act as if changing our beliefs would be taboo.

We place value on our beliefs.

We act as if they are something engraved in stone that can not be washed away.

How funny is that??

Even something engraved in stone will wash away over time.

I know, this can be a touchy subject.  Some of you reading may be thinking…but my beliefs are important…they’re what shape me, mold me…make me who I am.

And I say, you’re absolutely right!

Do Your Beliefs Serve You?

This is why I’m writing this post.  If beliefs are important to the extent that they shape and mold our very being-ness…then I feel it’s critically important to reveal them for what they are so that we would never, ever think of limiting ourselves because of our beliefs.

When we embrace the idea that beliefs are just thoughts we keep thinking, it becomes apparent that if we change our thoughts we create new beliefs.

If we continue to think the same thoughts, our beliefs get etched more deeply into the stone of our thinking mind…

But if we give ourselves the room to create new thoughts, the etching softens and a new belief is honed.

The Heart of Belief

The beauty in this is that we can shape our beliefs on purpose, consciously, thereby giving ourselves limitLESS room for expansion and possibility to become the fullness of our brilliance in this magical life we’re leading.

Are you wondering what a limiting belief might sound like?

A Few Limiting Beliefs~

1. I could never have that job; I’m way too shy to relate with people that way.
2. I will never have the love of my life; partners never stay with me for long…they love and leave.
3. My weight will always be the burden that drags me down; I’ll never be thin and beautiful.

That will be enough to get most of you saying…

“Oh!!!  Yeah, I’ve had thoughts like that.  Hmphf.  So that’s a limiting belief, huh?”

It is if you keep telling it to yourself over and over again.

Remember?  Beliefs are just thoughts you keep thinking.

Using Your Power to Choose

Come, walk the high road with me and let’s re-shape that stone we’re honing.  Remember when we did some Re-Framing?  This is similar.

• Old belief (old story) #1:

I could never have that job; I’m way too shy to relate with people that way.

• New belief (new story) #1:

**there are as many options for this as your creative imaginings will allow**

I can have any job I choose.  I am confident.  I am comfortable with who I am.  I love myself and I appreciate knowing I have something to offer.  I enjoy relating with others and feel ease and grace in social situations.

Nice, huh?

What?  You’re thinking…a yeah, but that’s a bit of a stretch, one from the other?
Maybe.  Maybe not.

This story only works for you if you’re someone who (deep down in your heart of hearts) wants to have a job where you love relating to people and where worrying about being shy is a thing of the very distant past, not at all relative to your current desires and being-ness.

If you are the person who wants to switch it up and ditch the old belief that’s no longer serving you, then this new story…these new thoughts will serve you well on your way to a shiny new belief about you and your ability to work that job.

Beliefs are just thoughts you keep on thinking.  Get it?

• Old Belief (old story) #2:

I will never have the love of my life; partners never stay with me for long…they love and leave.

• New Belief (new story) #2

I love myself and therefore I know I am worthy of love.  Love finds me easily and it sticks around because I am so fun to love. I attract my perfect partner; the love of my life with grace and ease.  I love myself enough to know that I am never alone.  I love myself even when I’m alone!  My partner adores that about me and he/she stays because it feels so good!

Seriously.  It works.  Find thoughts that are more aligned with what you truly want and think them.  They will become beliefs.  They will become beliefs worth keeping; beliefs that serve you well.

• Old Belief (old story) #3

My weight will always be the burden that drags me down; I’ll never be thin and beautiful.

• New Belief (new story) #4

I love my body.  I love how my body supports and reflects my inner beauty and brilliance.  I feel beautiful.  I look in the mirror and I see beautiful.  My body is the perfect reflection of me.  My body weight gracefully maintains itself at its natural best.  I love myself.  I care for my body’s well-being.  My body is the vehicle for my expression in the world and I love and appreciate my body.  My body is healthy, vibrant and alive.

Notice in this one I chose not to focus on the word thin specifically?  I choose to focus on health, vibrance and vitality…and allow the body to naturally find it’s own brilliant beauty.  We can get caught up on what ‘thin’ looks like…that’s another post for another day!  For now, if this is a new story that’s attractive to you, focus on the aspects that feel good and go for it!  Create a new belief that serves…and in this case suits you better.

Love, Love, Love

There’s one more thing I’d like to point out that is inherent in all of these thought/belief switch ups.  Did you catch it?

They all include, “I LOVE MYSELF”.  There it is again.  That theme I just keep coming back to, and with good reason.

Self Love is and will always be the core foundation to your Joy of Brilliance shining forth for all the world to see and be blessed with.

Is there a belief (thoughts that you keep on thinking) that you could do well with re-shaping?

I’d love to hear about it!  Share your old beliefs and their shiny new switch-ups in the comment stream…

And if you’ve got an old one that you need help re-shaping, bring it on…I’m happy to help you re-shape those thoughts into something that serves you well.

With JOY of Brilliance…

Let’s create together!

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It’s been said that ‘going off’, in a rampage of appreciation does wonders for the soul.  It lightens the mood, stimulates good vibes and creates space for everything you’ve ever wanted in life to become reality.

I’ve found this to be more than true.

Today, at Good Vibe University a fellow member started a forum topic inviting others to share their Rampage of Appreciation.  It’s been awhile since I rampaged publicly and I thought, what a fun thing to share…maybe you’ll be inspired to join me!

How to go on a Rampage of Appreciation

There’s no right or wrong way to rampage…there’s no magic number of things to rampage about…you just do

Rampage of Appreciation

it…you let it flow out of you in perfect random order, no editing, no considering…just pure appreciation…and you do it ‘til you feel done…’til you’re filled with JOY with your vibe running so high absolutely everything not only *seems* possible, it IS.

The only tricky part is it feels so good you may find yourself wanting to do it continuously!  No end, no beginning…just continuous Rampage of Appreciation.  Now that, my friends sounds heavenly!

So here I go…right here, right now, in this moment…

THIS is my Rampage of Appreciation!

• I love and appreciate how even though I’m so ready for spring I can’t help but see the amazing beauty of the big fluffy flakes of snow falling right now outside giving everything a pure, new blanket of white.
• I love and appreciate how my kitty, Hina is curled up beside me right now while I write this post, her purring creating the purrfect backdrop to my appreciation.
• I love and appreciate that I get to choose what I feel inspired to write about and how writing always feels SO gooood!
• I love and appreciate how Ashki, our dog is always within 4 feet of me…she’s my best friend in literally every moment.  (yes, often times in the bathroom/shower, too)
• I love and appreciate the hum of silence in my house.  How it breathes peace and stillness.
• I love and appreciate how my days are (mostly) designed by me.
• I love and appreciate knowing there are a multitude of like-hearted, like-minded souls pulsing the same vibe with me right now around the world (many of which in attendance at GVU)
• I love and appreciate that my house is a haven, a sanctuary that supports my creativity, my need for aesthetic beauty, my connection to the natural world and my desire for comfortable, peaceful, inspired surroundings.
• I love and appreciate how I can choose to work in my comfy pj’s most any day of the week from the comfort of my home.
• I also love and appreciate how sometimes I get to dress up and remember what it’s like to leave the house to go to work and mix and connect with other delicious beings.
• I love and appreciate how being in appreciation brings me JOY…and connects me to this very present moment.
• I love and appreciate how my body supports me in my desire to serve and how I give her a rest when necessary…like now, when we’re envisioning a happy, healthy, vibrant immune system.
• I love and appreciate that Destin (our son) is growing into an amazing young man who turns 15 on Thursday!
• I love and appreciate the MOM I Am.
• I love and appreciate parenting from the heart and how when my eyes meet my son’s we love, respect, appreciate and recognize each other.
• I love and appreciate my beloved husband who is the best partner a girl could ever wish for.
• I love and appreciate how much time we spend in the vortex together…and that we know how to hold space for each other while one or the other journeys around just outside.
• I love and appreciate how we teach each other so much and how we grow together through each other’s contrast.
• I love and appreciate the colors of my world…rich, alive, vibrant.
• I love and appreciate how easily I get turned on by simple things that bring me JOY.
• I love and appreciate my life.
• I love and appreciate the community of others in my life who understand how good it feels to love and appreciate!
• I love and appreciate YOU!

Whew!  …and I’m just getting started…

Who would like to join me this amazing minute?

Warning!! ~ Immense JOY likely to ensue

Taking part in this activity may cause ecstatic bouts of JOY and feelings of Deep Love and Connectedness.  Proceed at your own risk! LOL

Please…I’m passing you the torch.  Carry on this Rampage of Appreciation. Look around you.  Let it flow.  What do you see, feel, hear…right here, right now that sends you into a Rampage of Appreciation?

Bring it!  The comment stream is warm and open…

**If you find yourself reading this wondering where in the world to begin…if you question just how to start your Rampage of Appreciation, connect with me and we’ll do it together.  I can help you find your way to JOY…and on the way there, we’ll discover the power of a positive rampage (or two, or three…)!  email me: debra[at]soulitude[dot]com.  I’m so excited to play together!

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Jeannette wrote a post pondering the possibility of outsourcing our manifesting to others who would be willing to see our desired outcome as reality for us.  She offered many examples along with this:

“I suspect something gets activated within us just by getting in the field of someone who believes in your possibilities.”

I felt a surge of knowing immediately, the power here…and that it had to do with connection.  The fact that we’re all connected, the pulse of the Universe pumping through each and every one of us…and that collective thought creates amplified manifestation.

In the well over 200 comments that flowed through the stream it became clear that this was a hot topic, one that took on an immediate life of its own and is still continuing to breathe and grow.

Outsourcerer

Friendly LOA savvy Good Vibers, myself included, started flowing their requests to the group and with profound love and authenticity the group responded by being active agents of the Universe…seeing each and every one of the requests made as a complete and wonderful reality.

Our Colorado house had been on the market for over a year and a half.  It had become for me bump in the road of ease and grace manifesting.  I couldn’t figure out why this house wouldn’t sell.  I didn’t personally subscribe to the blanket theory of a declining economy and didn’t see any reason why that notion need have any bearing on the sale of our house.

I thought I was doing very well at letting it go.  After all, a year and a half gives lots of opportunities to do that, again and again!

I felt Jeannette’s blog comment stream begging me to play and I thought…why not?  This feels really good and I’ve got nothing to lose. (Right there was the first key!  Two keys really…feels good…nothing to lose.)

I then, in Good Vibe style, sent my manifestation request out to the group.  And when I did, I seriously felt the strongest sensation of letting go I have ever felt.  (Another key! …I felt the RELEASE, the relief of letting go)

From Request to Success in Four Days!!

• On day one I made my request.  I asked the group to see our house sold in the next four weeks or sooner.  I gave them some details about the house and they took it from there.

• By the end of the second day they had manifested 4 new showings and most importantly, two SECOND showings!!  While we’d had showings, we’d never had a 2nd showing the entire time we’d been on the market!

• By the third day we had our first offer.  It was lower than we could accept, but it was an offer and that told me that we were in the vortex, we just needed a little fine tuning.

I kept the group informed and asked them to amp up the money offer vibe a bit more.

• By the fourth day we had an offer we were willing to accept and the house is now under contract!

Go Outsourcerers!

We celebrated HUGE success…all of us doing the Happy Dance together and now the Outsourcerers have wielded their wands for a smooth, successful closing of the sale.

Every fiber of my being knows it’s already done.

The Outsourcerers (known and unknown) are my extended family; we are children of the Universe.  Together, we act as agents of manifestation working with the Universe to bring desire to reality through the simple act of thought, of seeing (and feeling) it already done for each other…with Love, Joy and Pure Bliss.

If you choose to read the entire post and comment stream, chances are you’ll feel the charge that we all feel.  It feels good to help others.  It feels good to see success for others and in doing so, we see our own.  The bottom line?  It just plain feels good.  All of it.

There are more happy faces and exclamation points in that stream…and now in the Outsourcerer Forum at Good Vibe University than anyone has ever witnessed any where else.  (Don’t quote me on this…sure seems to be, though!)  It’ HIGH VIBE~HIGH PLAY.  It’s JOY loaded and it’s REAL.   (Stay tuned for details on Good Vibe University’s public launch coming soon!  The playground is HUGE and we’d love to have you join us.)

Stay tuned for more exciting stories of manifestation magic brought to you by the Outsourcerers…and me.

What would you like to Outsource? Are there any burning desires you’d love to release to the Outsourcerers?  Let’s hear them!

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I don’t know that I’ve ever been so entirely inside a movie while watching it, and though there have been other movies that have moved me deeply, I can’t recall another movie that has ever taken me inside its world in such a way that I felt it undesirable to leave that world when the movie ended.  I felt at home on Pandora, and like characters in the movie, I felt a longing to stay.

It’s been weeks since seeing it now and what I realize is that Pandora is not a distant planet.  Instead, she is inside me.  Everything that felt right and true to me about Pandora lives and breathes within me, in much the same way that the essence of Aloha lives and breathes within me.  Living on Kauai stoked the flame, but the spark of Aloha was there all the time.

It’s All Inside

This is comforting somehow.  To know and feel that something I see as outside myself…another physical location…is actually just a beautiful representation of those qualities that are alive and well within me.

Perhaps the very reason they appeal to me in the outer 3-D experience is specifically because they already exist within me, therefore my resonance barometer goes off and my recognition of alignment heightens my experience.

Of course that’s what it is.  That’s how it works, doesn’t it?  Everything I am is within me. And thus, everything that is attracted to me is a result of what is at play within me.

I love how examples like this carry the theory home with great ambition.

The more aware I am of my Brilliance, my true nature self…the more consciously and purposefully I draw that which is a perfect match into my reality.

The more I increase my awareness of this, the more that I choose to responsibly and deliberately create my world.

The more I focus on aspects of my reality that I cherish, appreciate, love and adore…the more those aspects become a part of my expanded reality.

This is why sometimes people ask me if I’m living on a different planet!!  Hah! (Apparently they see my reality as quite different than the one they’re living and wonder just where I reside.)

Life on Pandora

Maybe I am living on another planet, in essence.  In this case, we’ll see it as Pandora.  (Forgive my references to the movie if you haven’t yet seen it…and if you haven’t…what are you waiting for?)

There is so much about the way of life on Pandora that is a match to my very own.  Maybe not the extremely tall, sleek body…maybe not the blue skin…maybe not the remarkable agility and grace with which they move about.  No, maybe not so much those things…but that’s just what’s on the outside, isn’t it?

It’s what’s on the inside that I’m referring to.  It’s what is inside the words, “I see you” that are spoken several times with great meaning throughout the movie.

My resonance with the Na’vi, the people of Pandora is in what I see inside them.  I see a people who know in every fiber, every cell of their being-ness that they are all connected in this great web of life. They see the connection.  They feel it.

The Na’vi have a deep-rooted awareness of their reverence and appreciation for all life.  They see the heart and soul of their fellow sentient ones, all.  Plants, trees, sky, soil, two and four leggeds, winged and every other mix there is on Pandora.  They see the Divine Essence alive and breathing in all…and by recognizing that essence, they know the truth.

The way of life on Pandora has much to share with us.  The Na’vi clan can guide us to the promised land that lives within each one of us.

That part of me that is Na’vi is alive and well.  She looks out at the world and sees hope, promise and life eternal.  She looks out at each living creature and sees the heart that connects us all.  She looks at you and smiles in recognition, “I See You”, she says.

And in those moments, absolutely everything is right with the world.  And that moment can be every moment.  It’s my choice.  It’s our choice.

Through the Eyes of the Na’vi

• Can you feel it?
• Can you feel the heartbeat of our planet pulsing through you?
• Can you see the heart and soul of those around you?
• Do things look different through the eyes of the Na’vi?

• What if we chose collectively to see through these eyes?
• What if we made a plan, as a planet to see through these eyes…and we all agreed to do this on the same day at the exact same time, forever more?

What a tremendous transformation that would be!

From this day forward, I am committed to living the truth of the Na’vi within me.  I am committed to seeing with the eyes of my heart and soul.  I am committed to honoring what my heart-soul eyes see.  I am committed to honoring my Divine Self…my Brilliance…the Light that is alive and well within me.

Will you join me?  Let me hear you proclaim it!

I See You.

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In fact, days before Christmas I updated my Facebook and Twitter with this:

Your best gift to the world is YOU! …during this fast paced season of giving and always. YOU are the shining star. Give the gift of YOU!

Know what I love most about this gift?  It’s perfect, readily available, easily accessible, and it never stops giving.  If you’re breathing, you’re giving.  You being here, alive on this planet right here, right now is the greatest gift.

Do you know the miracle of the Gift of You?

To give the Gift of YOU, to give the gift of your Brilliance to everything…in everything you do is the most amazingly magnificent gift anyone could ever hope to receive!

Imagine what would happen if we gave our attention to the magic in this idea.

When we recognize our Brilliance, the shining star we are each born to be…we become (and we already are) our most heavenly gift to the world.

Being conscious of our Gift and how we share it is yet another gift…to others, as well as to ourselves.

Within the Gift of You there are many glorious Nuggets of Brilliance that make up the whole.

It feels good to share the Brilliance of who we are freely and deliberately.  From this space we are aligned with the Essence that is our most Divine Self and our gifts are even more magnificent!

What are Your Nuggets of Brilliance?

We’ve all got many!  I’d love to hear at least 3 favorites that you love to give others…and if you’re in a giving mood and more than 3 flow forth…wahoo, it’s a celebration!!

I’ll start…

My favorite gifts to give others are:

My JOY (and my irresistible desire to help others find theirs)

My Love

My Ability to Listen with my Heart

My Loving Guidance & Inspired Perspective

My Reflection of Your Brilliance  (I see the JOY of Brilliance in each of you and give the gift of reflecting it back to you so that you can see yourself through J.O.B. eyes!)

It’s Your Turn~

Let’s here it Brilliant Beings!!  Share the Gift of YOU with the world…deliberately, on purpose…here…now.

We’re all ready to receive the Gift of YOU with deep appreciation and love.

Join in…share the Gift of YOU with us now…

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In her post, Tia mentions that, “Living a values based life is what will bring you true happiness…”

This reminded me of a book I love…and used a whole lot in the early years of home schooling our children.  It’s called, “The Virtues Project Educator’s Guide: Simple Ways To Create A Culture of Character”, written by Linda Kavelin Popov

Cultivate Virtue

I’ve long felt that tuning in to the power of a virtue-based life is key.

When we place our focus on virtues or values that are important to us…and live the magic of them, the vibration of these virtues in our lives draws us ever closer to our most brilliant, aligned, Divine Self. (*because the vibrations of the virtues are a part of our born brilliance)

As with anything that is real and true, it serves us well to begin within.  Cultivate virtue within first. And when the nature of the virtue sprouts from within…the possibility for seeding virtue around you is infinite.

Just as Tia mentioned pursuing Happiness can be trap…
So can pursuing virtues.  …or pursuing anything really.

The key is in the being-ness.  Not so much in the pursuing-ness.

When we recognize that the qualities of every value, every happiness, every JOY in our lives are inherently within…we no longer feel the need to seek…or pursue…and the feeling of Happiness, Peace, JOY, Bliss, Hope, Promise, LOVE, etc…just bubble up.  And suddenly we’re the cork, bobbing along on top of the water as Abraham so vividly suggests.

Below, you’ll find a list of virtues.

As you read them, feel into them…

It’s the feeling quality that goes along with each virtue and how that feeling truly resonates with each of us in our own uniqueness that matters.

Are there some that feel like your favorite pair of jeans?  Are there some that feel so close to home you can feel their warm invitation?  Are there others that feel distant, cold or somewhat like uncharted territory?  Are there any that feel so natural to you that you don’t even have to wonder what they are…they’re like breathing, they just happen?

• The ones that feel so very close to you are your natural harmonizer virtues.  They are the ones that give you your brilliance, your inner-light, your natural glow.  They are always at work in your vibration.  Others recognize these in you without you doing a single thing.
• The ones that feel a bit foreign are wonderful…but they’re not yours…not in the natural, harmonizing kind of way.  You can visit these virtues; but they’ll never feel like home to you and that’s OK.  Someone else ‘lives’ and feels at home with them.
• The ones that feel like home, like your most comfy pair of jeans or your most cozy slippers…those are the ones you feel most comfortable wearing with others.  They’re the ones that fit perfectly and you never tire of wearing.

Knowing the virtues that are inherently a part of your character, your Divine Blueprint, your Soul’s innate voice, will bring you ever closer to you knowing your self.

The more deeply we get to know ourselves, the more in harmony we become with our true nature, our core Brilliance.

You’ve heard me talk time and again about the value of Self Love.  Coming into relationship with your core virtues is an amazing tool to deepen and strengthen your relationship with Self...giving you more and more reasons to love your Self along the way.

Tune in…

Now, I invite you to look at the list.  Feel into each of the virtues and see if you can recognize the ones that feel like:

• Your Natural Harmonizers ~ The virtues that are your true Brilliance.  The virtues that just become you…with no thought, no ‘trying’, they are just a part of you…they are your inner-light.

• Your Most Comfy-Cozy-Wear them with anything, any time, any where Virtues.  They fit so perfectly, you love to wear them all the time.

• Your ‘I’m only visiting here’ Virtues.  The ones that feel a little outside, a little foreign…you like them, but they’re not you entirely.

List of Core Virtues~

This list includes some (not all) virtues & is derived from “Sacred Moments: Daily Meditations on the Virtues” by Linda Kavelin-Popov

• acceptance
• beauty
• commitment
• compassion
• confidence
• contentment
• courage
• courtesy
• creativity
• detachment
• devotion
• diligence
• discernment
• enthusiasm
• excellence
• faith
• flexibility
• forgiveness
• generosity
• gentleness
• grace
• gratitude
• humility
• idealism
• integrity
• joy
• justice
• kindness
• love
• loyalty
• moderation
• order
• patience
• peace
• perseverance
• prayerfulness
• purity
• purposefulness
• respect
• responsibility
• reverence
• righteousness
• sacrifice
• self-discipline
• service
• tolerance
• trust
• trustworthiness
• truthfulness
• unity
• wisdom
• wonder

If it feels good, make a list.  Celebrate YOU and the virtues that make you Brilliant. Use the list to connect more deeply with your Self.  See the virtues as more reasons to be in Love with your Self.  Honor and cherish the way that these virtues guide and support you in being the absolute best you can be. See these virtues alive and active in your daily experience.

And when you’re ready…see how amazing it is to notice virtues present in your loved ones, co-workers, friends and general passers-by.  Grow to recognize and appreciate virtues that are alive and well within others.

An exercise in the good stuff

This is a remarkable exercise.  It places your focus and attention on the good stuff.  We all know where we go and what we get when our energy is moving in the direction of good.  We get more and more and more good!

And, I just bet that Happiness will be a key feeling along the way!

Happy travels, my Virtuous Friends!  EnJOY the journey, be blessed along the way.

Oh and PLEASE, send me a ‘post card’ in the comment stream.  I’d love to hear about your discoveries…especially which virtues are alive and well within each of you!

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In my world giving thanks leads me to a feeling...a feeling of immense JOY and appreciation for whom ever or what ever it is that I’m recognizing I’m thankful for.

I’ve been playing with the vibration that surrounds saying thank you…just the words…and then really tuning in to the appreciation factor and feeling the words as I say them with appreciation.

Let’s walk beyond thanksgiving together…

Most of us when asked what we’re thankful for will say family…or perhaps one or two significant others in the form of close friends, partners, etc.

On the Road to Appreciation

Now if we simply say, “I’m thankful for my family.” The words alone may not conjure much vibrationally.  But, if we allow ourselves to enter into the feeling realm of why we’re thankful for our family (or a special friend, etc.) we begin to see and feel within ourselves all the wonderful aspects that we love about them and it sends amazing ripples of love and appreciation through us.

From this place, we are beyond thankful.
We are in the essence of appreciation, we are in the essence of love and the vibration here is so high…we feel high!
Elated even.  We are moved.  Our hearts and souls are engaged.

Mother Nature leads us to Appreciation

When we surround ourselves with nature and we gaze out into her beauty it’s easy to find at least one thing we see that we’re thankful for.  We may be grateful for the blue sky, the soft, gentle breeze, the trees that offer shade on a hot summer day, or the way the sun glistens on the new fallen snow.

We could just say we’re thankful for these things…
and I don’t know about you, but for me…I can’t stop there.  I am easily taken in by the beauty that surrounds me…and suddenly I’m over come with immense appreciation for Mother Nature, for her grace, her steadfastness, her power, her magnificence.

What might shift?

Can you imagine how things might shift to the highest positive if we were willing to look at all of life through the eyes of love and appreciation?

What would happen if every where we looked we could only see something positive, something that we loved, something that made us feel good?

It reminds me of the post I wrote months back about Seeing Life Through Rose-Colored Glasses.

What if our eyes were equipped with a special filter that heightened our awareness to the good that surrounds us in every situation…even those situations that seem entirely dire and dim?

What if I told you that we ARE equipped with that special filter?  What if I suggested that each and every one of us have that filter alive and well within us? What if I said the only thing necessary to turn it on, to activate it is our own willingness, our own conscious choice to do so?

Would you turn yours on?  Would you turn it up, full throttle, and allow the world that surrounds you to be filled with things you feel good about?  Things you love, things that make you feel better than ever?

Do you believe it’s possible?

I do.  I’m living proof.  I see the good stuff.  I feel good in my life.  Joy is mine.

Do I sometimes have to have my filter re-adjusted?  No, my filter is made of perfection and can not be broken and it never loses it’s power.  It’s me who sometimes needs adjusting.

It’s me who sometimes needs a tune-up.  And all that takes is me noticing that I’m seeing things that don’t make me feel good, things that bring me down, things I don’t like.  When I notice I’m seeing some of these things I know it’s time for a tune up.

3 Steps to a Quick & Easy Appreciation Tune Up~

1. Think of and write down as many things as you can that make you feel good…keep writing until no more things come in right now.
   
2. Think of and write down at least 5 things/people/places you love and allow yourself to move into the feeling place of why you love them…what do you love about them…how does all of it make you feel.
   
3. Take yourself into nature and look for as many things as you can that look beautiful, things that bring out the wonder and appreciation in you.

If we’ve managed to block the flow of our special appreciation filter and there isn’t much we’re seeing that looks or feels good, it may feel challenging at best to do these 3 easy steps.

If you find yourself feeling that way, here’s a question to ask yourself.  It’s one that when I ask it of myself, it gets me on track every time:

Do I love the way I’m feeling, do I want to continue feeling this way…or is there something better I’d like to be feeling?

OK…so technically that’s 3 questions.  Bear with me.

As soon as we ask ourselves if we’d like to feel better…as soon as we glimpse the idea that we can…we’ve shifted into an opening that allows the feel better to come in.

Abraham says, “Look for the thing you like the best even if there’s only one thing in all of it that you like, give it your undivided attention and use IT as your excuse to be who you are.  And as you use those things that shine bright and make you feel good as your excuse to give your attention, and as your excuse to be who you are, you’ll tune to who you are…and the whole world will begin to transform before your eyes.
It’s not your job to transform it for others, but it is your job to transform it for YOU.”

From this place we can begin our tune up…and get that special filter activated…leading us to the most amazing life experiences we could ever hope for…with ample amounts of Feel Good and JOY along the way.

I’ve said it before.  I’ll say it again.  Life is meant to be JOYful, to be enJOYed.  And one of the clearest, most easily travelled paths to experiencing that is the Road of Appreciation.

This quote from Abraham sums it up nicely~

“Appreciation is me being in sync with the whole of that which I am.  
Appreciation is seeing what ever I’m looking at through the eyes of Source.
A state of appreciation is a state of godliness;
A state of appreciation is being who you really are.”

So go Beyond Thanksgiving.  Find yourself in a State of Appreciation.  It feels good.

• How do you activate your special appreciation filter?
• How has living in a State of Appreciation made a difference in your life?
• …or if this road is new to you…  How do you imagine being in a State of Appreciation may support the Feel Good in your life?  *Remember, imagining makes it so!

You’ll enJOY this YouTube video from Abraham-Hicks on Appreciation vs. Gratitude.  Fitting, huh?  The Abraham quotes in my post came from this video…listen for them!

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I’ve written about the importance of Self-Love before…here and here … oh and HERE too.  (OK, so it’s a fave topic of mine.  In fact, the theme of Self-Love is inherent in most every post I write, blatant or subtle, it’s there.)

Now, it’s time to get down to it.

Can you shout from the mountain tops and proclaim your Self-Love?

What…? Is there a part of you that feels a little squeamish at the thought of that?

Why?  When you think of another in your life whom you love, is it easy to come up with 5 things you love about them?  Can you rattle those 5 things off without blinking an eye?

I believe it’s important for us to recognize the qualities within ourselves that make us fall in love with ourselves over and over again.

We’re better in everything we do when we have an honest, loving relationship with ourselves.  We’re better in every other relationship we have in our lives when our relationship with our Self is in L-O-V-E, Love.

Define Self-Love

Do you know what the dictionary says about Self-Love?  My Mac dictionary says this:

“Self-Love~ regard for one’s own well-being and happiness (chiefly considered as a desirable rather than narcissistic characteristic).”

You see?  Even the dictionary agrees Self-Love is a desirable trait! And a ‘regard for one’s own well-being and happiness’?  Hello.  That is truly what life is all about.  Abraham says life is meant to be JOYful.  Seems to me that Self-Love is the passageway.

So let’s go ahead and give ourselves permission to rattle off 5 things we love about ourselves.

I’ll go first…

5 Things I Love About Me:

1. My infectious smile. When I smile I feel it in my whole body…every cell, every nerve ending, every single bit of me feels my smile.  And it feels good.
2. My JOY factor. The smallest things turn me on.  I love that about me.  It doesn’t take much…and I’m all gleeful…like a kid in a candy store.
3. My HUGE Heart. I love how much LOVE I feel inside.  Sometimes I wonder just how much my chest can expand…I mean, there’s gotta be a lot of room in there for this great big heart!…really easy to get to 3 things……slight pause now……oh, and here come the other two…
4. My Way with Words. I love how words flow through me…I love how easy it is to communicate with my words…and how I find lots of feel good words floating through my thoughts.
5. My Inner Knowing. My sensitivity. (Does that count for two?  …for me they’re kind of the same.  Close relatives.  Like twins, if not one and the same.)  I’m a feeling person.  I love that about me.  I love how my sensitivity, my inner messenger, draws me nearer to my Brilliance, the one true essence of who I AM.

There.  5 Things I Love About Me.  Woo-Hoo!!!  …and you know what?  Now that I’ve proclaimed these 5 I can feel a river of love qualities flowing freely. Mmm…that feels good.

OK…now it’s your turn!

Please come along!  Use the comment section to Proclaim Your Self-Love from the Mountain Tops!

I want to hear you shout 5 things You LOVE about Your Self…right here…right now!

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I love the dual energies I feel at this time of year.

It’s a time of harvest.  A time of recognizing and giving gratitude for the abundance gathered over months of inspired growing time.
And it’s a time of winding down as we allow ourselves into the womb of winter.
A time of preparing to go inside until the light is renewed and another cycle of rebirth is upon us.

Nature truly gives us all the wisdom we could hope for.  She knows without question what to do next.  She is the perfect example of allowance.  She just flows.  If something outside of her realm of influence attempts to disrupt her…she shakes it off…she self corrects.

Through nature we find ourselves.  We are nature in human form.  The same vibration that created her is that of us.  We are energy.  Alive.  Pulsing.  Enlivened by the very pulse of the planet.

Nature’s Gateway

In my world, Nature is one of the most magical gateways to our Brilliance.

If ever we feel unsure, shaken, unaware, out of touch with who we are in our purest form…Nature is the Gateway to finding our way home…to our Brilliance, to all that we are.

Most of us have created lives that lead us away from nature.  We create boxes; we exist indoors.  We have multi-level buildings that give rise to our feet from the grounded connection they so love to feel on the earth.  We turn on another box to watch nature…through the lens of another.  Our lives are busy.  We don’t have time to play outside.

My life got as much like that as I’d ever let it.  And then we moved to Kauai where even when you’re indoors you feel the harmony and oneness of nature breathing through the space.  I am forever in appreciation for our blessed union with Kauai.

She gifted us with the Gateway home.

Once we understand the significance of Nature in our lives; once we’ve crossed the threshold of that gateway…we are FREE.

Have you found your Gateway?  There are many…and they’re free, and available to everyone…no matter where you are on the planet!

A Good Sit Spot

On Kauai, we’d often encourage the children in our homeschool community to give themselves a quiet sit spot in nature.  We’d ask them to just be with it…to quietly watch and observe…and later we’d talk about their findings.  Kids are close to nature, so this is easy for them and they always had magical things to report.

As I sit today…with the tree spirits just outside my door…I am aware of these things:

• I am nurtured by the grace of nature.  She fills me up.
• I sit, observe, feel, smell, listen, taste…  I drink her in.
• I recognize the simple beauty…and the intricate details.
• Breathing, nourishing, nurturing…
• Constant BEingness, in complete grace and ease.

The tree doesn’t ask, “What should I do today?”  He just stands in his knowing.  He doesn’t wonder who he is.  He’s good at being a tree.  He accepts himself for who he is.    He doesn’t bend over some days and say, “nope, not today…I’m just not going to show up today…can’t do it.”  He stands in his Brilliance, in his Power and he is Tree.

• I see movement, flexibility~
• …bending, swaying, dancing…and yet rooted, solid, grounded.

Trust the Cycles

I trust the cycles~
…Birth…Death…Rebirth

Tree doesn’t say, “no, no, no…I’m not ready!!  I can’t be time.  How is it possible?  I’m just not ready.  I don’t want it to be fall.  Please!!  I don’t want to lose my leaves!!

Instead, she accepts and allows.  She is in the flow of perfection.  She just is.  She is nature and nature is her.  Her leaves fall…naturally, gracefully…feeding and nourishing her roots for further growth.

In this moment, I am the tree.
I give myself to the cycle that is upon me with full abandon.
I am the tree.  I stand strong in who I am.
I stand strong in my connection with the earth.
My roots dig deep.  My branches reach out to the heavens.
My leaves, one by one gently float to the earth in rhythm with the earth’s calling.
My heart knows I am one with the All, all with the One.
I am in perfect harmony.

In this moment, I am Free.
This moment is every moment.
In every moment I am Free.

In love, gratitude and appreciation for the Tree…the Tree that is me…I AM FREE.

Your Gateway?

• How does Nature’s gateway lead to your Brilliance?
• What intimate moments have you shared with Nature?
• What has Nature revealed to you?
• Where will Nature lead you next?

I’d love to hear from you…

In Harmony…with JOY…in Nature,
Debra (@debsoul)

Brilliant Autumn Tree Photo
Tree Gateway Photo

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