Today's Wish

Today, my wish for you is to see the multitude of choices you have for yourself in each moment. Choices about your own behavior, beliefs, thoughts, and feelings. Regardless of your life's circumstances, there is a way to receive a blessing from it and a way to expand into a new and better you, created as a result of your experiences. It's all there, waiting for you, just sit still and quietly and give it the chance to rise up to the surface.

Working Toward Acceptance

There is something to be said for acceptance. As I see it, in any circumstance, it allows us to find peace with what is. Peace in the present moment is our springboard for a Divinely Inspired Future. Why do we fight against the moment (what is) so much? Where do we get these pre-conceived ideas about our lives from? I just don’t know.

What I do know is that through persistent self inquiry we can move past these constructs we create about who we are and what are lives are supposed to be. As we challenge ourselves to answer questions like:

“How do you know that’s true?” and “Can you absolutely know that it’s true?” and “What happens (how do you react?) when you believe that thought?” and “What happens when you choose to create an opposite and uplifting thought about the same subject or person?” (These questions are from “The Work” of Byron Katie for more information about her transformational process go to http://www.thework.com/)

(However, I must post this Warning - do not honestly answer these questions about your thoughts and beliefs unless you truly want to feel better about your life – truthful answers to these questions are life changing, elevating and expansive)

With that said, if we do engage in this process or a similar one in which we challenge our thoughts and beliefs in a way that helps us to find acceptance with what is, we begin to open ourselves to new possibilities, learn to see and accept things as they are and find peace in the present moment. Until we do that, we ride against the tide in making true and lasting changes in our life circumstances.

Today, I wish you the strength and courage to challenge your thoughts and beliefs so that you may find the Inner Peace that awaits you.

Metaphorical Musings

I spent some time with a friend the other evening, she mentioned that for a time she had been getting recurring bladder infections. Her medical doctors had wanted to do some serious testing and treatments for her condition. Intuitively, she felt that this route was not the answer, but instead felt that her body was reflecting stresses in her life. At one point it became obvious to her that she was pretty “pissed off” about some things going on in her life, particularly at work. As she began to look at her body as a metaphor and use this intuitive wisdom to assist in her in moving forward, resolving the mental/emotional issues she was at odds with at work, her recurring bladder infections came to an end naturally. While I never asked her, I would make a safe guess that there were also some boundaries being crossed that she needed to stand up and defend, for it has also been my experience that the bladder represents boundaries and reacts when we don't stand up for ourselves. (Such an unfortunate, but fitting example of this is women who have sexual intercourse just because they don't know how to say "No," and then end up with a bladder infection. This of course helps them then to have an excuse to say "No" in the near future. The good news is, if you begin to listen to the body, it can assist you in your growth process and assist you in removing the dis-ease.)

Time and time again, I see both in my own personal life and in my work similar occurrences. The body holds the wisdom and is a true reflection of what is going on in our lives. If we create space in our lives for the mind/body connection to surface, it becomes conscious. Once we learn the language of the body and continually listen to the body speak its metaphors, we can unravel its symptoms, often without the intervention of Western Medical Care.

As many of you know, I have dedicated my life to this process, both personally and professionally and I can not stress to you enough how the body is simply a reflection of who you are, body, mind, spirit and emotions. On an energetic level, it is a living representation of all of your attributes and experiences. Because this is the case, you can learn to engage in this process for yourself and consciously experience the connection of mind and body.

How do you begin? By being open to the possibility, having patience and by creating a dialogue with your body.

When was the last time you asked yourself: What’s happening now? And waited for your BODY to give you the answer.