No doubt, struggles can feel not so good. But they can also serve as lighthouses for where we need to be looking.
Your Energy
How are you using your energy? Where are you directing your energy?
Forcing Is Painful
Be gentle with yourself. Be patient. Gift yourself time, space, and attention to sit, to feel, to learn, to heal, to grow.
Truth
What a beautiful moment in time to consider stepping back from the debate. To release the need to persuade. To give ourselves to oneness. To listen. To connect with our love energy. To be there with and for each other. To let go of our greedy desire to be right. To simply, lovingly, glowingly, and magnificently...be.
Speak Peacefully
What you say. How you say it. The words you choose. The volume of your voice. It all contributes to the energy you decide to create when you speak. This is not about buffering yourself or being inauthentic. It’s an opportunity to align your voice with love.
Love More
We don’t need more love. We are love. Let’s love more.
Believe
It’s within you. Yes it is. You have the freedom to make the choice to be positive. Of course we experience challenges, loss, and pain. But those experiences need negativity to survive. Instead, you can dig deep and summon the strength to feed positivity to those experiences. Your positive energy has the power to transform challenges into an opportunities, loss into acceptance, and pain into healing. Believe.
Daily Moment of Awareness [10.1.2019]
Moments of awareness shared with you
I have been enjoying a pretty steady ritual of daily morning meditation, followed by reading, then a run, then some social media work and then….well, whatever I need to do in the moments following.
Today was completely lopsided for me. I was up super late and basically, so my sleep schedule was totally messed up. I actually laid in bed until about 5p. Though I was feeling conflicted about some stuff, unmotivated, and annoyed that I allowed the day to go by, something happened.
I told myself it was ok to deviate from the plan. I recognized I could still accomplish what I do in the mornings, in the evening too. In that moment, I felt ok about not feeling ok. But I also become mindful that making healthy choices to boost my energy, clear my mind, and nurture my well-being are available to me in every moment - not just the morning time.
So, I sat up. I scheduled some social media posts. I leaned into my mediative practice. I read. I got a quick run in. I showered. And I even ran out for some quick fall knick-knack shopping.
Even when things feel off, you can still make choices to align yourself with well-being.
Daily Moment of Awareness [9.30.2019]
Moments of awareness shared with you
Meditation is an experience which gives the individual the opportunity to see oneself. Unfiltered. Non-judged. Without fear.
This does not mean it is without intense emotion, but it is emotion grounded in how you see yourself. This is powerful. Many of us chip away (sometimes strip away) our authenticity in order to be accepted, to be loved, or we do it to be invisible. We then begin to see ourselves as others want to see us.
My meditative practice has been about eight years in the making. Where I am at is leaps and bounds from where I began. But what I realized today is, when I meditate I am seeing and feeling my authentic self. It’s liberating. It’s inspiring.
I’m also reminded I have work to do, but I’m not embarrassed by it. I am accepting of it. I am accepting of me.
Fear Is Not A Validation
People hear what you say. People see what you do. But people do not experience your life experiences as you do.
Furthermore, we often dial down or even hide our truth. The deep, core experience dancing in our souls and warming our hearts. For as real as it feels to us, we still try to make sense of it. We question it and doubt it. There are so many reasons why we do this and it all points back to fear.
How much do you reveal in your moment to moment?
We tell people what we think they will accept. We show people what we think they will accept. We surrender to fear. We tell ourselves we have difficult choices to make, but what that really mean is we have tradeoffs to make. The tradeoff is our authenticity for someone else's acceptance. Why? Because we allow fear to be a validation for how we choose to live.
Fear is NOT a validation.
words on image: Michael Barata / image: Jez Timms
I Am Strong
[I Am mini-series #2]
Have you forgotten about your strength? Your ability to overcome? To persevere? To move through the fear? To heal?
Your strength has helped you countless times. This power resides within you, for you, whenever you need it.
Honor your strength with gratitude
all words + words on image: Michael Barata / image: NordWood Themes
Your Energy Foundation
We allow the outside world to influence how we live. We all do. From situations to people, what is happening outside of us receives so much of our attention.
Speaking your truth cannot be contingent on how it may be received. Choosing who or what gets space in your life does not require permission from anyone but you. Being there for yourself in every way possible is a healthy imperative. And your dreams, are your dreams to discover, pursue, and live out.
You deserve your own attention, time, and space to create a strong, grounded, and loving foundation for yourself. It’s your energy.
words on image: Michael Barata / image: Chetan Menaria