Standing Tall with Big Heart: Somatically, Mindfully, Creatively, Unceasingly
Take yourself for a walk at dawn and whisper to all that surrounds you:
I am joyously alive.
I am joyously alive.
I am joyously alive.
Soften your gaze
As you inhale and exhale deeply
Merging your body with the dawn
And all her surprises.
Give yourself permission to be joyously alive.
Pause, ask questions and listen to the mountainous wisdom.
…then it’s much easier to walk and live it.
If you aren’t completing your To Do List,
It could be in this new world we live in
A new To Do List is needed.
Hint:
Put “Update Self for Today’s World” as the first item on the list.
Create a robust and wholehearted life
By living in the gaps between opinions, judgements
And the projections of others.
Living outside the gaps is not living.
Instead it is living a life so vague you become useless.
Go deep and wide in the gaps between thoughts.
Feel into the experience. Feel into life.
This is mindfulness.
…and then follow it.
Follow the energy it attracts.
Follow the love it emanates.
Just as there is one more peaceful diety than wrathful,
Perhaps there is one more positive experience than negative.
You have it in you.
It’s the antidote to the fears and the worries.
May you give yourself the permission
To create and live that Positive Experience
Today
Right now.
You’ve had an inkling.
You have heard the whisperings.
Your thoughts move towards it.
But you keep pushing it away.
“No time,” your Rational Mind says.
I challenge you to trust your intution.
Let your Spontaneity thrive!
Drop your plans! Go do it!
As you shake off the unncessary and accumulated realities from outside sources, notice what is left.
Then ask yourself, “Of the infinite choices, what reality shall I endorse today?”
For myself, I choose the reality that endorses love, kindness, compassion, joy, and evolution for all. What about you?
Remember like the Golden Retriever below shake off the realities that are not yours…and see what is left!
When life experience is greyed out, dull, drifty, blurry
Or disconnected
It’s time to clear the energies.
Focus yourself.
Sit up straight. Go for a huff and puff walk.
Take out your calligraphy ink, rice paper and brushes.
Pray. Meditate. Listen.
Prep your meals for the day.
All with strong courageous back
And soft compassionate belly.
With focused determination
Forcefully breathe out stagnant qi.
Breathe in the prana of life energy.
Look around with fresh eyes.
Consider all you see with Beginners Mind…
All minds need freshening up at least twice a day.
Practice settling thoughts.
Practice breathing into the gap between thoughts.
Practice breathing into the gap between cells.
Bring your practice into each moment as you journey your world today.
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