What are you putting off? What are you denying? What are you holding back? What makes you believe you can do it later?
Giving And Not Giving
From time to time, checking in with ourselves is how we can understand where we are looking and where we are not.
Limiting Labels
What we know is from the past. What we experience is now. When we are forever labeling, we are not experiencing.
The Dance
Trying to equal everything out can be exhausting. The truth is, there will be times when you get knocked over, or feel off, or you even find yourself in a sweet groove. How you choose to respond, nit matter the circumstances is the dance.
To and With
We’ve mastered talking about and posting about others. Could you imagine speaking with and interacting with people we don’t understand?
We typically don’t understand others for only one reason - our experiences are different.
That’s right. We each experience life differently. Those experiences will then inform and mold our beliefs. Those beliefs then become safety, security, and comfort to which we cling. Let that land.
When you take issue with someone else, it is not the other person who is causing you to feel tension or negativity or hostility but rather, you are actually struggling to navigate why their beliefs are not yours. That’s simple. Their beliefs are not yours because their experiences are not yours.
Once again, allow that to land.
When we fight and argue about which beliefs are right, we are literally dismissing the experiences that have informed those beliefs. In essence we are dismissing the person’s entire existence.
This is why I feel less conversations about each other and more conversations with each other can benefit all of us. Conversations are the gateway to understanding and acceptance. We can disagree and still accept each other. But that will never happen if we first don’t give each other an opportunity to learn and understand each other.
Much love,
Michael
Your Energy
How are you using your energy? Where are you directing your energy?
S2E10 : How About Expression?
Can you express yourself without expectation?
Healing
Feel. Deal. Heal.
Have You Forgotten?
Looking outward, we tend to forget all we have within ourselves.
Are You Distracted?
I understand the times can demand a great deal of resiliency. Information coming at us from everywhere and everyone. I see you. I empathize. My questions for you are, “Are you moving in love?” “Are you being your authentic self?”
S2E2 : How About A Cupcake And A Hugfest?
The choice to love resides in each of us - in every moment.
Declutter 2021
Make space for the good stuff!
Truth or Comfort
Is it about pleasing your desires? Validating your expectations? Confirming your biases? Comforting your beliefs? Clinging to primitive ways?
Or...
Is it about being curious about the unfamiliar? Exploring something different? Reconceptualizing your worldview? Discovering new perspectives. Unlearning conditioned behaviors and thought patterns? Learning anew in the present moment?
Healthy Distractions
Engaging in activities that are positive and productive can benefit our wellness, sense of self-worth, and attitude. However, to force engagement, even in something healthy, and not also work on your pain, trauma, and darkness is fear-based. It tends to be more about hiding instead of healing.
Empathy
Let’s stimulate empathy. Let’s grow empathy. Let’s create opportunities for empathy. Let’s reward empathy. Let’s have the biggest empathy.
This may seem like a political statement, but it’s not. It’s from my heart. It’s from my soul.
We hide who we are. We limit our expression. Sometimes, we flat out lie about our feelings. So, we avoid or distract ourselves from ourselves with healthy behaviors like smiling or engage in healthy activities like work. We move from fear of being judged for who we are to reluctantly accepting love for who we are not.
A Love Explosion
Of all the things we are told to release, love must be freed. Not only is it a positive energy for all to experience, but as you release it, you create space for more of it. Love energy is powerful and gentle. Uplifting and grounding.
Time & Progress
“In due time.” “Time heals.” “You’ve got to give it time.” Each of those sayings imply time is the action. It is not. Time is an unreliable factor, because no one is certain of how much time we have beyond the moment we are experiencing. Therefore, progress does not occur as the result of time passing, but rather it is related to your level of awareness and the conscious actions you choose to make - or not make.
Daily Moment of Awareness [10.24.2019]
Moments of awareness shared with you
You don’t heal by denying how you feel. You don’t heal by pretending you don’t feel what you feel. You don’t heal by forcing yourself to feel one way or another.
You heal by facing your hurt. By sitting with your pain. By grieving. By doing the work to honor what has happened and how you feel. By taking healthy steps in times of anguish and frustration. By accepting the ups, downs, and swirls of hurt. By reaching out and going within. By crying. Screaming. Sleeping. Breathing. Reflecting, Meditating or praying. Going to counseling, therapy, coaching. By doing whatever is necessary for you to engage, feel, and walk through the hurt. No timeline. Be patient.
You can feel and heal.
Daily Moment of Awareness [10.2.2019]
Moments of awareness shared with you
I was reminded today of something I’ve been sitting with in my times of refection. I don’t believe we need courage to live our truth. I believe we need acceptance. We need to FIRST accept our truth. Love our truth. Once you do that, living your truth will begin to feel like breathing. It will feel natural.
Because your truth is your nature.
Our truth is in us. Always. It’s that thing we hide. It’s that thing we deny. It doesn’t take courage to do that. It’s simply a conscious choice. Therefore, you can make a conscious choice to live your truth too. Out loud.
Stop with the pep talks about living your truth and just be it.