“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 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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Self Love in the purest, more reverent sense is the greatest gift we could ever give ourselves.  In turn, it is also the greatest gift we could give another.

By loving ourselves unconditionally, we heighten our capacity for love in general.  By loving ourselves we are tapped in to our true nature and therefore in access to our greatest authentic power.

Communicating with others from this space of Authentic Power steeped in Self Love is magical.

Sphere of Receptivity~

By focusing first on our self love and then radiating outward, we create an authentic sphere of receptivity for communication to flow through.

When in this space of Self Love related to Authentic Power, we recognize that we have no desire to control another.  Our only wish is that each person finds the deep peace associated with their own relationship with Self.

How the communication is received is not up to you.  It is up to the receiver.  Your only ‘job’ is to come from your inner love and relate from a position of good intention without agenda, without attachment to the outcome.

We can tell the difference between being in our Authentic Power and coming from our Inauthentic Power in two ways:

• how we’re feeling emotionally while communicating
• if we’re feeling attached to the outcome, or not

If the emotion that is flowing feels good, is based in unconditional love, peace, harmony and understanding then you can be sure that you are coming from your Authentic Power.

If the emotion that is flowing is steeped in feelings of anger, frustration, fear and/or judgement you can use caution, recognizing that it’s more likely to be coming from an Inauthentic place when the emotional energy is charged in this way.

The flow of emotion is an ever changing stream of consciousness. At times calm and placid, other times like raging rapids.  In addition, this flow can shift and change at the blink of an eye.

As we commit to bringing our awareness to our emotional flow, we engage another level of our Authentic Power.  We are aware of the shifts and therefore aware of our level of authenticity.

Feeling Powerless?

When I look at the path I’ve journeyed over the years relative to being in my own authentic power I can clearly see the relationship between my journey to self love and my ability to be in my power.  I can see plenty of stops along the path where I felt powerless…and in those moments I was also OUT of love with myself.

Being powerless is a close friend of self-doubt, self-sabotage, self-neglect, self-hate.  Period.  No one can render you powerless but yourself.  Just as no one can give you power but yourself.

An Inside Job~

It’s an inside job.  It always is.  As soon as we externalize *anything* we’re at risk of giving our power away.  Again, when this happens it’s of our own choosing.  Nothing has been taken away.

The inside job here is all about loving and honoring your most Brilliant Source Self and allowing the expansion of that Source Self to fill you up from the inside out.

When we allow our True Nature Self to expand into the fullness of our being-ness we are free.  We feel such joy and elation.  Nothing can stop us.

We are unstoppable in our flow of power in grace and ease.

Being the ‘Look-Out’~

When in conversation or communication that matters to us, it’s our responsibility to bring awareness to where our communication is flowing from.  It’s responsible of us to be our own look-out, our own watch-guard to where our energy is flowing from.

When in conversation we begin to recognize that our emotional barometer has switched from love to fear, we draw ourselves in, call ourselves on it and proceed only when we are back in a centered, loving, peaceful place.

Just imagine how different the world would be if we could self-manage our energy in this way.  And of course we can.  …do we?  That’s the question.

War would be an unknown if each of us committed to this practice, this awareness.  What a commitment this is…and will be to those we love in our near and dear daily lives, as well as to our global family.

When we recognize that it’s only about us, as the individual…that no one else imposes anything on us; it offers a deep sense of comfort and freedom; as well as responsibility–one that we willingly accept because it’s just too important not to.

Calling all Captains~

Accepting this responsibility means we realize that we are truly the captain of our own ship.  We realize that we are in charge of our feelings, our thoughts, and our actions.  We realize that everything we do, say, and be…is a choice.  Everything.

Most of all, we recognize that true power = love…better yet, Love = Power

…and it all starts on the inside. Inside of you.  Inside of me.  …how beautiful when it radiates outward!! LOVE POWER

That’s the only kind of power I’m interested in.  How about you?

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I’ve written  Letting Go & the Power of Happy (…the new Power of Now) and last week’s post, I’ve Got the Power.  This week several people have posed questions around Authentic Power…what it is, how to tap into it and how to know when you’ve got it turned on.

Here’s what I’ve got relative to Authentic Power; in two parts, because I just couldn’t fit all the juicy details into one post!

Part One:

The Heart of Authentic Power~

Communicating from your center, your place of authentic power, will always feel good to you.

That’s your key that it’s working.

If it feels good, it’s working.

If there are any not so good feelings (uneasiness, hurt, anger, resentment, fear, etc.) floating about that’s your key that something is off, not quite right, awry.

The magical key to feeling good and thereby being in your authentic power lies in your capacity for Self Love.

The more in love with your Self you are, the more able you are to relate from your Authentic Power.

I capitalize Self here to denote the real, true essence you.

• Not the you of your personality, job, roles in life, etc.
• Not the you as someone else may define you.
• Not necessarily even the you as you may define yourself if you’ve not yet fallen truly, madly, deeply in love with your Self.

Self is the Brilliance Within.

• Self as God-Given,
• Source-Driven,
• Divine Nature,
• Pure Perfection Self.

Now that’s goooood.  (and oh so easy to love, yes?)

Being in love with your Self automatically ensures great levels of confidence, worthiness, acceptance, peace and joy.

Being in love with yourself in the purest sense means you don’t need anything from anyone else…ever.

You are your own best friend.

From this space, giving is delightful and receiving is magical.

Both are like icing on the cake…not necessarily needed, but oh so appreciated.

The more capable we are of loving ourselves for the pure perfection that we are, the more capable we are of reflecting that ability in others to do the same.

Self Love is the most important gifts we could ever give…ourselves.

Self Love is the foundation by which all else is created.  For when we recognize the greatness of our Source Self…our God-Given Self we recognize the Power Within that is limitless; the power to be, do, live anything we dream or imagine.

• The more deeply we love ourselves, the less likely we are to be swayed by something outside of ourselves that is dissonant.  Thus, we are IN our Power.

• The more sure we are of ourselves, the more likely we are to be able to maintain our center (our Power) when our surroundings seem to be on shaky ground.

• The more steadfastly we love ourselves the easier it gets to relate from our Point of Power in all that we do.

We are designed to be powerful, loving beings.

Love is the Heart of Authentic Power.

Tap in!  It’s yours to claim.  Fall in love with your Self and feel the Power!

In part two we’ll talk about Authentic Power in Communication.  Be prepared to be Power FULL.

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