Journeys

Moon Glowing. Tides Flowing. Ripples through my life. Dancing with and through. Giving myself the gift of freedom, permission and relaxation. Letting myself be clear and loving while flowing with the creation that flows through me, whether it be in relationships, art, or in life. Be it in health or be it in circumstances beyond my control. Be with it. Dance with it. Move with it. Flow with it. Go with it. Do with it. Be at peace even in the chaos. Give freedom even in restricted places. Love myself with gentleness, with allowance.

Let the inner reflection shine through.Let the heart be the voice of the soul. Let it speak and then listen well.

It’s been awhile since I have written here and many changes are on the horizon for me. Stay tuned to my website and my blog for what is to come.

In the meantime here is a little something that I wrote for myself last year that perhaps you will get something out of as well.

Remember to have balance. Balance is the act of going neither too far in one direction or too far in another. But balance does not mean motionless. It means equal balance of motion and no motion. It means spending time quiet and reflective. It means spending time in activity and play.

In order to achieve what it is that we are desiring in our lives, we must have a combination of perseverance, faith, inspiration, intuition, love and rest. Perseverance to keep going when it gets challenging and hard. Faith to know that we are provided for and taken care of even in our darkest moments. Inspiration to fuel us and keep us flowing with the creation of life. Intuition to know when to follow a lead, when to listen deeper, when to fine tune our clarity. Love that keeps us sustained and fills us up so that we may have the courage to stay engaged in the beautiful and challenging act that is called Life. And Rest, to allow us the energy to receive all that is flowing through us and to give it back out again.

Check out the new class that I am offering beginning the end of September. Click on the link to Classes and Intensives to see all the details.

In the meantime, here is a lovely quote for the mothers of children or the children of mothers:

“The moment a child is born, the mother is also born. She never existed before. The woman existed, but the mother, never. A mother is something absolutely new.”

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (Indian Spiritual leader, 1931-1990)

Last night a good friend of mine said to me, you know when you have been in a relationship with someone long enough, you begin to think that you are the same person. And you begin to speak to them the same way you speak to yourself.

After being in a relationship for 13 years, it feels like a true statement. When I am feeling not very kind to myself, I am often not very kind to my partner. When I am feeling good and happy, I am often able to share in that wealth as well.

And it goes both ways so that when my partner is unable to be kind to me because of what is happening within him, whether or not I can maintain my own state of being will depend on how able I am to stay in my center and stay in the inner love I am feeling (or not feeling).

Happiness starts with us. We generate the love we desire to feel. If we are not feeling it in our relationships with others, we are often not feeling it in ourselves. When we are feeling it in ourselves, our relationships will reflect this feeling.

So with this realization comes the ever renewed commitment to love myself and to spread this love into my life, my relationships, my children and my world.

The body is a very wise mechanism. It not only regulates and regenerates, but it also is communicating with us. It communicates through sensation, through illness, through injury, through ability or lack of. Not only does it communicate these things with us, but when we listen, really listen, we will often hear a deeper thread to our body’s communication. The thread is often of self neglect on a physical, emotional or on a spiritual level. And the body tells us, “I need something”. It needs love, care, attention, movement, relaxation, healthy choices, rest and/or your presence and all of this is communicated with you, if you are listening.

So perhaps next time your heart is fluttering, your stomach is in knots, your legs are sore, your shoulders are tense, you have a headache, you have indigestion or some other bodily sensation: stop for a moment, close your eyes and tune in to that part of your body, then ask it what it needs and then do your best to do what your body is asking you for. Your body will thank you for it and so will the rest of you.