Music Flows From Heaven To Heal The Heart And Sooth The Mind
“There is something very wonderful about music. Words are wonderful enough; but music is even more wonderful. It speaks not to our thoughts as words do; it speaks through our hearts and spirits, to the very core and root of our souls. Music soothes us, stirs us up, it puts noble feelings in us, it can make us cringe; and it can melt us to tears; and yet we have no idea how. It is a language by itself, just as perfect in its ways as speech, as words, just as blessed” – Charles Kingsley
When I write poetry, I hear music in my head. It can be a current song, or just snippets of songs that kind of meld together, but I hear music. It’s like the words in each line have to conform in some way to the music in my head. One of my “someday I’m going to do” things is to learn to play the piano. I really want to understand the music from the heart and soul level. I think I could be a song writer as poems seem to be a step away from lyrics. But it is one of those dreams that always plays second fiddle to whatever is currently creating the passion in my life.
“Music touches us emotionally, where words alone can’t” – Johnny Depp
I love movie soundtracks from my favorite movies. Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Star Trek – epic movies that you can watch over and over again. The soundtracks for each of the series have some of the same themes within them from movie to movie, and they have some new music. Lord of the Rings for example has a specific melody for when the hobbits are involved. When I listen to the soundtracks I remember the scenes they are attached to. Battle scenes, scenes when a beloved character is killed, scenes with love, joy, sorrow, and death. Without even knowing a movie you can listen to the soundtrack and you know what emotion is happening on the movie.
“I love music. For me, music is morning coffee. It’s mood medicine. It’s pure magic. A good song is like a good meal – I just want to inhale it and then a share bite with someone else” – Hoda Kotb
One of my nephews got married in Bullhead City, AZ on New Years Eve. We stayed in Laughlin, NV and then went to St George to see my Aunt. We came home Saturday the 2nd, leaving around 1:00 PM and driving back to LA was a nightmare. I foolishly thought that leaving on Saturday we would be able to escape the crawling traffic on Sunday. The six hour drive took nine hours and would have probably been more if I hadn’t cut off at Highway 58 and cut across to I-5 that way and then down to 118 and home.
“Sometimes music is the only thing that takes your mind off everything else” – Unknown
I share this because when you are in solid bumper to bumper traffic people seem to lose any manners that they might have had. People were driving on the shoulders, driving alongside the road on the desert, they were cutting people off, honking horns and of course the hand gestures. Every once in awhile I would have to take a deep centering breath because I could feel the frustration, anger, anxiety coming into my car from the people surrounding us. Music has a way of soothing the soul when you are in these types of tense feeling situations.
“Dear Music, thanks for always clearing my head, healing my heart, and lifting my spirits” – Lori Deschene
The other quote I loved and considered for this post was from an unknown author, “music speaks what cannot be expressed, soothes the mind and gives it a rest, heals the heart and makes it whole, flows from heaven to the soul.” I went with Plato because of “wings to the mind” and “flight to the imagination”. I love the visuals I get with the words, wings and flight.
The beats in a song are like the heart beating. A steady comforting sound. You hear the beating of your moms heart at conception. If you put your ears against your lovers chest you will hear the beating of their heart. It is life pumping through your body and soul until the last heartbeat echo’s off in the distance, and you return to your heavenly father.
There is also a rhythm to music and to beating of the heart. There is even a genre of music called “soul music”. It is a mixture of gospel and rhythm and blues music. It draws your body to move with the music. You might start dancing or clapping your hands, you just have to participate with your body.
“Music unwraps the heart, sings out the prayer. dances the spirit, and opens the soul” – Mary Davis
When words fail you, music can still transport you up the vibrational scale from the depths of despair back into the nirvana of the soul, where beauty, joy and happiness live. It fills in the emptiness that you feel in your soul and like a string draws the soul up towards the light.
Martin Luther called music, “the art of the prophets” and said “it is one of the most magnificent and delightful presents God has given us.” Music transcends generations of men. It lives on long after the composer has left the earthly realm. It doesn’t require to be translated like words into one’s own language but exists in all languages.
“Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life” – Berthold Auerbach
It has even been said that “music is the prayer that the heart sings.” I know that there have been many times in my life that music was my only escape from the problems I was experiencing. It allowed me to regroup, put myself back together emotionally and go back into life feeling like things would be ok.
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness” – Maya Angelou
Years ago when my children were young, I would put on Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and clean my house. It made the housework go so much faster and not seem like such a chore. So whatever is going on with your life, just know that there is some music to go along with it, or to transport you away from it. You can go into deep meditation or get your party started and rock out your soul!
Visualization Is Key To Communicate With The Soul
“Hope is the thing with feathers – that perches in the soul – and sings the tune without the words – and never stops – at all” – Emily Dickenson
Hope is perching on your soul and sings to you every day. It tells you these wonderful stories of what you can accomplish in your life. Visualization is critical to hope, as it draws in everything you want in your lives. Hope is what keeps you going when you seem to be failing in bringing your vision into reality.
“I always think it’s important to constantly visualize success, but to consider failure, even for a second, so you can be prepared if things don’t work out just as planned” – Jen Gotch
3M was trying to create super strong adhesives when they accidentally created the glue on “Post it Notes”. For years they couldn’t figure out how to use this glue in a commercial way.
Then came a second accident. One of their employees who sang in a church choir put the glue on a piece of paper so that he wouldn’t lose his place in the hymnal for the songs they were singing. He discovered it could be removed and put back on without destroying the paper.
Then employees used it for over 3 years experimenting with it before they started to market it. Today it is one of their top selling products. So just because you might fail at what you are trying to bring into reality, doesn’t mean it really is a failure – sometimes it is even better than what you were trying to create.
In the movie “The Secret” and the book that followed it, they talked about visualization. Many people will tell you that they have a hard time visualizing.
If I tell you not to picture “your kitchen”, 99% of you immediately see your kitchen in your minds eye. It is a little harder to build a visualization of something that you have never seen, but block by block, with practice it can be done.
“By visualizing information, we turn it into a landscape that you can explore with your eyes, a sort of information map. And when you’re lost in information, an information map is kind of useful” – David McCandless
A good question to ask yourself when you’re lost is – “What is the task I now face in my journey?”
It seems easy to get lost in the search for meaning in your life. Having meaning in your life isn’t some grand purpose of changing the world around you. It’s about being in right relationship with the world around you.
A different question to ask, is “what is my soul wanting to express through me?”
This gets to the heart of your belief of what your destiny or purpose in life is. Visualization is key to unlocking that door of opportunity. Taking the time daily to meditate and allow your soul the space to talk to you is critical to obtaining the key to the deeper questions in your life.
This really helped me to connect deeper to my imagination. When I read books, I now see the story in my mind. The sun shining on the ocean as it flashes bright lights along the cresting waves. I hear the waves crashing on the shoreline. I feel the wind blowing and as I dig my toes down into the cool part of the sand, I smell the salt air, the tangy taste of it in the wind. As I described this did you enter into my visualization?
I can totally enter the world being created by the author. When I am in this space, I see connections and possibilities that I have never thought of before.
This is how I learn from everything that I read, because I enter into a world I have no experience of. I love it when a really good movie or book brings you totally into the world they have created. You forget what you’re experiencing isn’t real.
“If you want to reach a goal, you must see the reaching in your own mind before you actually arrive at your goal” – Zig Ziglar
I am sure that you heard the joke of the man who was on his rooftop during a flood. The water was cresting higher and higher, as it inched up towards the top of the roof he had climbed. He was sitting there waiting for rescue. He prayed to God for help.
So, God sends him three chances for help. The first one was some people with a canoe telling him to come down and get in the canoe. “No thanks, God is sending me help” he tells them. Then God sends him some people with a motorboat telling him to climb on board and be saved. “No thanks, God is sending me help” he tells them. Then God sends him a helicopter and they lower down a ladder, and for the third time he says to his potential rescuers, “no thanks, God is sending me help”.
As the flood waters come higher, they eventually swamp the roof, and the man drowns. Upon entering heaven, he asks God, “why didn’t you save me?” God says, I sent a canoe, a motorboat and a helicopter, but you refused to get in. We don’t know with the joke what sort of help he was expecting. We just know that he kept declining the opportunity to save his life. Maybe he had no idea, and so with no real visualization he didn’t recognize the opportunities.
Visualization is how you can attract the things you need, to bring your goals and dreams into reality. You have to remember that part of your journey, is the lessons you learn along the way. By visualizing how you can grow and change, you speed toward our destination. By visualizing into the space, the gratitude of already having it, and using all of the senses in the visualization – you make it so real, that the divine opens doors of opportunity for you to receive it.
Synchronicity will bring it into your life. You have to take the risk; you have to grab the opportunity. If you won’t get into the boat – then it goes past you and is gone.
The most important thing for you is to look for the doors and opportunities and grab them. Go through those doors, no matter how scared you are. Take the leap of faith that this is your answer. Climb the ladder being presented. Get into the helicopter.
Don’t Just Color Within The Lines, Draw New Lines And Make New Colors
To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it. – Kurt Vonnegut
- Do you remember when you were little and you felt free to experiment?
- When you didn’t comprehend failure?
- How you lived in the moment, and it was enough to just be?
- Before you were made to conform and color inside the lines?
- Can you remember when you could see things that other people didn’t see?
At some point you grew up and became an adult. Now, you reflect and remember how as a child you didn’t have the heavy burdens you now have. It is so funny how you spend your entire childhood wanting to be an adult. Then as an adults you miss the freedoms of childhood. What rules you had as child were so simple. When you were young you used your imagination to be creative, instead of worrying about a million things that might happen and will 99% of the time never happen in reality.
To experience peace does not mean that your life is always blissful. It means that you are capable of tapping into a blissful state of mind, amidst the normal chaos of a hectic life. – Jill Botte Taylor
These two boys are in a state of bliss. Chaos will appear when mom finds them – lol. I can remember scrubbing my own children trying to get the markers off their faces and telling them over and over, you only draw on paper. I remember telling them to color within the lines. I remember creating all of these rules to keep them contained. Because I thought that would keep them safe.
You can’t be that courageous self that lives your life purpose if you are coloring inside the lines. You need to live your life from the inside out, listening to the soft voice of intuition. To own who you are with no regrets or apologies.
Coming from authenticity allows your inner wisdom to shine out and sets you free from conforming to the rules. It hands you the courage to erase the lines, and let the colors spill out off the page. When you color outside the lines you give yourself permission to make a bigger picture – a much bigger picture.
When you make the picture bigger, you can even use the whole box of crayons – all of the colors, not just the primary ones. Go ahead and buy the colored paper clips and throw out the conforming silver ones.
Her life improved dramatically, when she decided to break the rules and find beauty where she’d been told there was none. – Ashlin Nawel Habes
So break the rules that says the grass must be green, and the sky blue with a yellow sun and white clouds. Go outside the lines and color something that has never been seen before.
Find beauty where they said there was none, outside the lines.
Live out loud in the possibilities.
Imagine a world where you can be weird and strange and everyone loves it. Make your life a masterpiece.
I am a Crayon Breaker
I see things differently. I see things as resources.
I think things differently. I see unlimited possibilities.
I feel things differently. I generate endless ideas.
I do things differently. I strive to be creative.
I believe things differently. I do things creatively.
I smell things differently. I do creative things.
I sense things differently. I do what I do creatively.
I taste things differently.. I promote creativity in friends.
I experience things differently. I promote creativity in my family.
Sometimes Brokenness Gives Birth To Transformation And Wisdom
“And one day she discovered that she was fierce, and strong, and full of fire, and that not even she could hold herself back because her passion burned brighter than her fears” – Mark Anthony
The desire for the extraordinary and unexpected, starts with being curious. Being curious sends you down new roads, exploring and learning, which in turn transforms you. At that moment you have this choice. To go down the road of having a “pity party” of why you – or getting curious about “why you”. You never know what you are capable of doing, until your “being” is tested. How would you spend your time, while recovering from brain surgery and cancer treatments?
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new” – Socrates
A friend of mine created an amazing piece of art. He posted on his Facebook page photos of it hanging in an art gallery. It was his first piece accepted in an art gallery. The picture is of a Nile crocodiles eye and he did it with the stick part of the q-tip one dot at a time. It is 6 ft long and 2 ft high. It looks like it has real scales around the eye. Almost like stones laid in the painting. The eye itself is so realistic.
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation” – Elizabeth Gilbert
His painting is much larger and more detailed but I had to reduce the size and detail in order to include it. It is an amazing demonstration of focusing on making one small change at a time. Over time, those small changes will add up to a big transformation. One dip of paint, one dot upon one dot, until something amazing emerges.
Transformation literally means going beyond your form. Imagine how many individual dots it takes to fill in that much space. The transformation of making all of those little dots into this painting, also transformed him. He is now cancer free and what is so amazing is that 90% of the people who have the cancer he had do not make it.
“Experience isn’t what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you” – Aldous Huxley
His cancer brought pain, but it also brought gifts. Viewed through one lens it was a ruin to his life as he knew it. Viewed through another lens, it showed him through transformation how to live the life of his dreams.
“We are so afraid to change careers, to end relationships, to outgrown people or places – and that’s just growth. To me, choosing to go toward the cracking in order to keep expanding is the only way. The only way to get out of pain is to go through it. Pain is information” – Sophia Bush
Happiness comes from the value you bring, the thrill of creative achievement, and a pulsating desire which transcends life. James could have been consumed with fighting for his life. He could have been angry at the unfairness of life. He could have been frustrated by the long recovery period. But instead he chose to focus on this painting, and this painting in turn worked on him.
He told me that it was a wake up call to really live his life fully. To stop spending his life at work and neglecting the rest of the life that he should have been living. To think that he spent most of his life not working as an artist is such a waste of talent. Even the picture of the painting grabs you and makes you look at it. We all can learn from his story. Don’t be afraid to pour yourself into your gifts and talents. To allow them expression. To put them out into the world, so that others can experience them. To be “all in” for your dreams.
“This very moment, if you are living totally, all concern for the future disappears” – Osho
Transformation is truly about how you handle each and every moment as it appears. Just like filling in all of that space with dots of paint and creating a masterpiece. Focus on the one thing you can do in each moment.
“There is no other greater ecstasy, than to know who you are” – Osho
Life can’t work for you, when you don’t show up as the authentic you. You become the “authentic” you when you listen to the wisdom of your soul and like the caterpillar, shed the parts of you that no longer fit who you are becoming. So live in each moment, and see where the transformations take you!
“The only limits you have are the limits you believe” – Wayne Dyer
Stand In The Light, Risk Being Seen As You Are
“Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light” – Brene Brown
Jordan Smith won “The Voice” and this was his first release with his first album, “Stand In The Light”. If this song is any indication of what he can do, he is going to have an amazing career. I can so identify with being tired of hiding who you are.
I spent most of my life afraid of being seen, afraid of the judgments of others. This song is so liberating. I think that most of us hide who we are. The reasons are legion, but most of them come from fears of being judged and found wanting.
“I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it’s only when you stop that you’ve truly lost” – Vanessa Kerry
I decided a few years ago to stop fighting against myself. To stop being invisible. To instead gather up all of my tattered scraps of courage and stand up on stage. The lure of invisibility still tries to creep back into my life, disguising what it is doing. But I am becoming better at recognizing it.
Someone gave me a gift of recognizing that I used a cloak of invisibility and removed it. My choice was to never put it on again. It is part of the reason I write these blogs. It is my hope that I can say something that starts you being curious of how you are hiding and playing small. That you will have the courage to step out into the light and be seen. To reveal to the world the magnificent being that you are.
Instead I decided that the world is a nice place, full of wonderful people, and that is how I want to approach my life. The majority of people will help me, believe in me, and support me. There may be a few who throw stones, but I am being braver than they can ever be, by standing in the light and being me.
When Jordan was on “The Voice” he talked about the mean things that people had said about him, including a music teacher who told him his voice wasn’t any good and he should give up his dreams of being a singer.
This song is based on how you have to decide that you are not going to let others make you hide. That you can be brave enough, to not only stand up and be who you are, but to take center stage, under the lights and shout to the heavens. That is how you can be seen as who you are – no holding back any part of yourself.
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” – Martin Luther King Jr
I don’t think Martin Luther King Jr was just talking about not standing up against racial prejudice or injustices. I think that he was talking about any kind of injustice that you witness happening. I also think that he was also talking about standing up to yourself.
Sometimes when you look out at what is happening in the world, you see people with widely different beliefs clashing against each other. People who have taken on beliefs that allow them to perpetrate crimes against their fellow man believing that this is the right thing to do.
They don’t treat others with different skin colors, cultures, beliefs, religions, sexual orientations as a child of God. Instead, they condemn them and run-down innocent people down with a vehicle, or shoot them, or blow them up with bombs. When will man become what God intended us all to be?
“Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness” – Desmond Tutu
This is why you can’t be a silent witness. You can’t just continue to look the other way. You can’t be secretly glad that what happened, didn’t happen to you or your loved ones. You need to remember that every single person on this earth is your brother or sister.
You have been given these wonderful, amazing gifts to help change the world. Martin Luther King Jr.’s gift was to speak out against racial prejudice and injustice. To light a fire inside all of our hearts with his “I Have A Dream” speech, that is still burning.
Your gifts were given to you, just like his speeches were given to him. He had the courage to stand up and be seen. Your gifts will mean nothing unless you also have the same courage, to stand up and be seen…,
As Jordan says in his song, you need to stand in the light. You need to stand up for what you believe in. To be yourself, loving, trusting and respecting yourself. If you can’t do that for yourself, you will never be able to do that for others.
He says to never apologize for being who you are. Instead of regretting the past, learn from it and be a better person. He reminded us that God can use a small spark to light a firestorm.
What are your dreams, visions, your life purpose? Are you on track to bring them into reality and complete them? Have you allowed distractions to sidetrack you? Are you unclear on what your life purpose is or how to bring it into reality?
Free Your Soul
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all other worlds except the one to which you belong” – David Whyte
Can you remember a time when someone told you whether by words, gestures or actions, that you were too much? When they made you feel like you have to settle for being made small, in order to be loved? To be quiet. So be still. To disappear. To be ashamed of your exuberant spirit? They make you feel like you have to build walls around you in order to be safe. This is because you can only be confined, by the walls you yourself build.
“That which you call your soul or spirit is your consciousness, and that which you call your “free will” is your mind’s freedom to think or not, the only will you have, your only freedom, is the choice that controls all the choices you make and determines your life and your character” – Ayn Rand
I think that there comes a time in your life, where you have to free your soul from whatever you walls you have built around it. When you have to dance with destiny, to break down the walls that your mind has encased it in. Bring it back up out of the depths of the ocean. Dig it out of the deep hole you buried it in. Chip it out of the cement block. Sometimes this happens when you fall into the depths of despair. When you shatter yourself upon some tragedy.
“Life is like a game where you seek to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way of achieving your goals. You get better at this game through practice. The game consists of a series of choices that have consequences. You can’t stop the problems and choices from coming at you, so it’s better to learn how to deal with them” – Ray Dallo
When the tragedy happens, there will be those who will walk by you lying shattered all over the ground, saying to themselves, “Thank God that is not me” or “I told her that was a bad decision”. There are also the ones that you must cherish forever. The ones who will gather up every single broken bit of you. Who will clean you up, and glue you back together with compassion. They carefully match up the broken bits to heal you.
“In order to be who you are, you must be willing to let go of who you think you are” – Michael Singer
When you have reached the stage of being grateful for the tragedy, it means that you have uncovered the blessings in the event. The blessings come from the realization that you have levels below the levels below the levels. Levels that you would never have uncovered without the event happening. This is when you sing out to the stars at night. When you dance under the light of the moon. Looking up into the night sky you feel like you are speeding through the Milky Way Galaxy. You realize that you were never truly lost. You have in fact always “been on your way to your destiny”.
“. . , What I can do is offer myself, wholehearted and present, to walk with the people I love through the fear and the mess. That’s all any of us can do. That’s what we’re here for” – Shauna Neiquist
There comes a time, where you start meeting people who are either breaking free or have broken free. People who are hungry for life. People whose souls touch your heart in ways you didn’t think possible. People who literally nourish your soul. You meet them after days, months, or years of thinking that somehow you were weird. That there wasn’t anyone else out there like you. That you were the only square peg in the round hole.
“I want you to always hold your head up and follow your dreams wherever they take you. Don’t you ever listen to the people out to hurt you or make you cry. Listen to your heart and be better than them. No one gets ahead by hurting others. The only real peace anyone will ever have is the one that comes from within. Live your life on your own terms and make it a happy life. Always. That’s what’s important . . . ,” – Sherrilyn Kenyon
Commit To Your Dreams!
I invite you to join us on April 4th for a purposeful gathering. Our intention is to create moments of life-changing conversation on how to make 2020 the year of achievement.
Chances are that what you’re struggling with, others are too. What life questions you have been asking yourself, others are asking themselves too. Get clear on what you want and how to obtain it. If your 2020 dreams and goals are already stalling, get recharged and refocused. Learn how to pivot to success. Join us for a gathering that no one will forget.
Sometimes you will meet someone with whom you just click. It is like you have known them all of your life. They are just what you need in your life, at this very moment. They have this amazing ability to lift your vibration, move your spirit is such a way that pure joy is within your laughter. You find your soul soaring in ways you didn’t know that it could. You find the weight of the baggage you have been carrying suddenly gone. Today you feel, like you can finally be that person. The one you dreamed that you could be.
“You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say” – Paulo Coelho
While you are the only one that can free your soul, being around those who have already done so helps you to let go of all of the reasons why you buried it in the first place. They help you to let go of the feeling that it wasn’t safe to be who you are. To let go of the shame, blame, and the guilt that you used to imprison your soul. They help you to realize that if they were to able to free their soul, then so can you. You can move forward. You can be who we are, instead of some sad version of what the world wants you to be. It is the first step in the right direction, to see the future where everything you thought was impossible, is possible.
“You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens” – Mandy Hale
Commit To Your Dreams!
I invite you to join us on April 4th for a purposeful gathering. Our intention is to create moments of life-changing conversation on how to make 2020 the year of achievement.
Chances are that what you’re struggling with, others are too. What life questions you have been asking yourself, others are asking themselves too. Get clear on what you want and how to obtain it. If your 2020 dreams and goals are already stalling, get recharged and refocused. Learn how to pivot to success. Join us for a gathering that no one will forget.
Freedom Is Found By Listening To The Heart
Have the courage to follow your heart & intuition, they somehow already know what you truly want to become . . . , almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure, these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die, is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
– Steve Jobs
I think that one of the hardest things for me to do is to take the time to just be. To sit in prayer or meditation and just allow my heart to have its say. I am so filled with doing and avoiding what really needs to be done. The doing of things does need to happen – I have to pay my bills, read and respond to emails, write posts such as this. I have to cook, clean and garden. I work fulltime, so there are the hours spent there and commuting back and forth. My elderly dad lives with me and I have to care for him. So when I am avoiding something, like right now proof reading the final copy of my book, I am doing something like this that my mind says also needs to be done. So allocating time to just sit and be like this photo, is hard for me.
I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered into this world into defeat, nor does failure course my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion, and I refuse to talk, walk, and to sleep with the sheep. I will persist until I succeed.
– Og Mandino
We think that it is selfish. That it is not high on the list of necessary things to do for this day. So when Mastin Kipp sent me an email with a version of this, I was inspired to write a post of my own. Because taking the time to find the freedom to do these things is just as important as your day job. It is just as important as eating, and more important than cleaning the house and doing laundry. We are not really living if we don’t take the time to do these things, we are just existing. We are asleep when we neglect these things. If we are truly awake, conscious and aware, then this has to be a daily part of our life.
The truth is like a lion. You don’t have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.
– St. Augustine
If you want more happiness, more joy in your life, check the list to see what is missing in your daily routine. Trust in the whispers of your heart, for it is leading you intuitively to this practice. Follow through on your highest intentions, changing them from wishes to commitments. Voice what matters, because if you remain silent, you are holding back from your life purpose. Pursue your dreams. Run after them, putting them into action. Step by step the pursuit of your dreams leads you to have confidence that what you are bringing to the world matters. If you have that confidence, then it doesn’t matter what other people say or do, you will stay in pursuit of accomplishing your dreams. Fulfilling your destiny becomes a primary focus in life.
The greatest fear in the world is of the opinions of others. And the moment you are unafraid of the crowd you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom.
– Osho
Forgiveness for yourself and others is necessary because we all make mistakes. We all fall short of perfection. Some of our friends and family may say or do something that discourages us from the pursuit of our dreams. They don’t see or feel what you do. So they put up road blocks thinking that they are protecting us from being hurt, when in reality they are the ones hurting us. Try saying something like this to them that expresses compassion with what they are feeling, “What I hear is that you are in fear for me, and for yourself, in how these dreams are going to be fulfilled. How it will impact my life, your life and our relationship.” If we exercise empathy, we can look beyond their fears to see that they do love us. This allows us to reconcile their actions with their intentions, and grants the space for forgiveness for any hurt we may be feeling. Opening up the space for their heart to talk to our heart, so that they can not only hear you, but begin to understand.
Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose, to help him or her to empty his heart.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
We must do the same thing for ourselves. Our shadows present a whole dictionary of negative comments on how our dreams are not going to happen. They put up brick walls to protect us from ourselves. We need to take down each brick understanding the motivation. To exercise self love and self trust, help these gremlin shadows to see how important these dreams are. Enlist their help for ideas on how we can safely walk the path of fulfilling these dreams, presenting a win/win for ourselves.
You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.
– Paulo Coelho
Each morning is a new day. Each morning spend a few minutes in prayer and meditation. Listen to the whisper of your heart. Do today what matters most. Breathe. Love. Trust. Follow the freedom of your heart. Use your voice boldly. Live in freedom the life you have always imagined.
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Do Not Let Fear Hold You Back
Never let your fears hold you back from pursuing your hopes – John F. Kennedy
- How does one become fearless?
- Can you really be totally fearless?
- Would you want to?
When I think that fear is standing in the way of something that I want to do, then I need to do something to break up that fear into smaller pieces. My own experience in life so far, has been that some measure of fear is healthy. It helps me to not be stupid and hurt myself. It also feeds into my spirit of victory when I accomplish something by growing through the fear and doing it anyway.
- So how do you control fear in your life?
- How do you control your life at all?
- How do you figure out what is within your control and what isn’t?
Part of it starts with understanding what is and is not under your control. When you accept responsibility for and control over, such things as your judgments, impulses, and desires, then your life changes completely. These are things that are within your ability to control.
If you try to control other things beyond your control, that is when you just get weighed down. It is like trying to swim with cement shoes, it isn’t going to end well.
Here’s the truth about big life changes: some people won’t come with you. and that’s okay – Early Mama
You can’t control our reputation because it is based on exterior things that are beyond our control. We can’t control the spin that other people put upon what we say or do. We can however, chose to take the high road and not get mired down in the drama. How many times have things you have said or done been taken out of context and used against you? You will be driven crazy trying to control stuff like that.
Your anxiety or getting angry about it doesn’t make it go away. It doesn’t suddenly become something that you can control. All it does is make you unhappy and destroy your peace of mind. You have the choice of continuing to self-inflict injuries upon yourself by trying to control it, or you can let it go. Realize that in the end, people will either recognize you for who you really are, or they won’t. It is not something within your control.
What would you do if you weren’t afraid? – Thegoodvibe.co
The realization that what other people do is not your job to control, and you can’t make them change, will shift your world completely. You begin to focus on walking your own path. You are no longer trying to control another person’s journey. With your focus on your journey, the ups and downs of life even out. Your path becomes more serene. You aren’t trying to avoid drama; you are just not drawing it into your world. If something comes into your space, you just take a few deep breaths, let go of any desire to change someone’s else’s journey and keep walking drama free.
What is amazing is that we also have the ability to shift the memories we have into ones that don’t create a negative emotional response inside of us. Our brain allows us to recall memories and reconsolidate them. This means that we can take a childhood memory and add new information that wasn’t available to us as children. We can turn fearful memories into fearless ones.
Everything we want is on the other side of fear – Jack Canfield
My sister Julie for example is a real scaredy cat. She jumps at anything. When she was a teenager, there was a movie that came out with a ventriloquist dummy that was a horror show. She was watching T.V. alone late at night and the commercial came on for the movie. She was terrified that it was coming after her. So, she went to my parents’ bedroom door, opened it and called for my mom. My parents’ bedroom was up some stairs, and their bed was against the railing of the stairs. So, my mom leaned over the railing to tell my sister to be quiet, so she didn’t wake up our dad. When my sister saw a head looming down the staircase she screamed and fell over backwards, falling down the couple of stairs that she had started up. Needless to say, my dad was woken up – lol.
My sister as an adult can laugh at this story and it is no longer scary, because she has new information available to her, that her teenage self didn’t have. We can do this with any scary memory that we have. Update our memory with new information.
Life is like a game. You can play it safe and be good, or you can take a chance and be great – iliketoquote.com
With visualization we can do the same thing to our future. We can see into our future regarding something that we are scared of. We can go through the experience step by step over and over again in our mind. We can cross over from being fearful of the situation to being confident of it. This is exactly what Olympic Athlete’s do. They see themselves performing their routines perfectly over and over again. They have hooked up machines to them and discovered that the muscles of the athletes are actually firing just like they were physically doing the routine when they are just using visualization. The more they do this, the better their skills become.
So, with visualization, we can preview anything coming up in our lives that we have intense fears over. We can practice what we would say or do over and over again. This will give us some confidence that we can accomplish the thing that we are afraid to do. When a rock climber wants to solo a difficult climb without ropes, they start out with ropes. They climb it several times to learn where to put their hands and feet. They then replay the climb over and over again in their minds. They lose a lot of the fear over the climb this way because they have gained confidence in their ability to do it by the repetition.
I am the master of my habits – #Goalgetter
So, break down the walls of fear that you built to keep you safe. Start believing and visualizing your dreams coming true. Take a practice run to see what you can do with the ropes of safety. Then expand that with visualization. Then go for the life you have been dreaming of living. Don’t let fear hold you back. Go become the person that you have never been, but wished you were.
Clarity, Conviction And Taking Action Bring About Transformation
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one else can see” – Arthur Schopenhauer
What stands in the way of you hitting your target? Your Dreams? Your big hairy audacious goals? How many excuses have you made up for why you are not trusting your soul to lead you in the right direction? How many times are you going to use your family, your job, other people’s problems, as excuses to block access to the door of your own dreams?
“Creativity comes from trust. Trust your instincts” – Rita Mae Brown
I am not yet ready. As soon as I have everything organized, I will be ready. As soon as I have my ducks in a row, I will be ready. As soon as I . . . fill in the blank. (Finish? Learn more? Buy a house? Get the kids through college? etc. . . .). There will always be something new to stick in that blank, that lets you stand in the way of your destiny.
The problem has to do with time. There comes a time when you have used it all up. Then all you have left is an unfulfilled life.
Not today, but later. Tomorrow I will do it. Too busy today. Later I will . . . Tomorrow I will . . . fill in the blank. Like time is a blank check that you can write any amount you need into it. The reality is “Someday” is never coming.
I used to tell myself that as soon as the kids were all in school, I would have time to write. Then it was as soon as the kids were out of the house. Then it was as soon as I wasn’t working so much overtime. It was always, “as soon as” – that “Someday” just kept moving further and further down the timeline. I could never catch up to it, until I decided I wasn’t playing the game anymore. Then everything changed.
“It’s your road, and yours alone. Others may walk it with you, but no one can walk it for you” – Rumi
Or maybe your excuses are you don’t know what you should be aiming for. You don’t know what your life purpose is; you don’t know what your personal genius is. Are you even trying to find the answers?
What sets your soul on fire? What is it that you can see that sends your mind down the rabbit hole of possibilities? What is it that so wraps up your heart and soul, that you don’t even hear the objections of everyone around you saying it can’t be done?
Your soul has all of the answers, you just have to ask the right questions. Your personal genius sees what no one else can see, and if you aim your heart and mind to what it tells you, there isn’t a target that you can’t hit.
Or maybe your subconscious patterns have you stuck and asleep at the wheel of life. You’re the dreamer in a dream dreaming, and you think that you are awake. It reminds me of the movie, “The Matrix”. Will you take the blue pill and stay in your dream or the red pill and follow the rabbit down the rabbit hole? (Side note: did you know that Keanu Reeves donated approximately $50M which was almost all of his earnings from this movie to the special effects team, making them all millionaires? I think he took the red pill in real life too.)
There is a big difference between knowing what you should do, and actually doing it. It all comes down to the blue pill of knowing or the red pill of doing. Doing requires you to initiate your life.
“The easiest thing is to react. The second easiest thing is to respond. But the hardest thing is to initiate” – Seth Godin
Or it could be that your resiliency has lost all of its bounce. You used to be like Tigger and bounce everywhere and somehow, you’ve turned into Eeyore. Now you have a dark cloud over your head shutting out all light. Don’t let your mind enslave you. Let go of the illusions created from failure or disappointment. Free yourself from the chains of your own making. Don’t make yourself an undiscovered genius.
The hardest part of hitting the target is the decision to let go of the arrow. To take fear and doubt out of the equation. To cast time out the window. Passion unchains your creativity. It removes the fear of change, the fear of success or failure.
“As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning” – Barbara Sher
All Things Are Possible
Never settle. Fight for the life, the career, the dreams, the love that you deserve.
– Mandy Hale
Women cry not just when they are sad. They cry when the are angry, frustrated, and misunderstood. They also cry when they are in joyous exultation, happy beyond bearing. When a divine truth enters a woman’s life, it strips her bare. These are tears that need to be honored. It is time to say goodbye to something that no longer bears the resonance of truth for us. It is time to say hello to a new truth. Playing with the fire of truth, we burn away the parts that no longer belong and refine what remains.
I will not trade my authenticity for your approval.
– Wild Woman Sisterhood
I went to see the Wonder Woman movie this past weekend. I enjoyed it, as I watched her face her idealisms being shattered. I watched her as she refined herself, her purpose in her life. The decision she made to leave the island. The decision she made to liberate the village. The life changing decision that she made in facing up to Ares and his taunts. Ares demonstrated in front of her that mankind wasn’t worth her sacrifices. I loved the principle that was celebrated, that it really didn’t matter if the people were judged as being worthy of her sacrifice. She wasn’t their judge about such things. She was doing what she did for her own beliefs that she held sacred.
Transformation is the journey you are on. You are exploring the wisdom of your soul. You are shedding old ways and beliefs that no longer fit who you are becoming. Be brave, dear one. You are becoming your authentic self.
– Unknown
It reminded me of when you are walking down the street and you see homeless people panhandling. Many would say, “they are not worthy of our hard earned money”. That, “they will just use it for drugs or alcohol”. That somehow, “they deserve the situation that they have landed themselves in”. My hope is that this movie gets us to rethink about the automatic judgments we make. The condemnations that we believe we are justified in holding. That we open our hearts instead to look for a different way. A better way to help those who have lost their way. We can’t change their lives for them, they have to do that. But we can give them a helping hand, a hand up, not just a hand out. That we can help to empower them to see, that they are worth something still. That they have a powerful story that can help save others.
If you are not free to be who you are, you are not free . . .
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes
There are days when the frustrations of running up against road blocks make you want to blow up the road, and disappear into the wilderness. You can’t let those days make you run away. There are too many people out there that are looking to you to show them the way to follow their dreams. Hold on to sisters who are fellow dreamers and action takers. When your flame is being blown out, they will shelter you from the wind. They will help you to regroup. They will be your saving grace to keep you from going dark. Each time we get into a level of frustration that has us wanting to “tap out” of life, we need to reassess what we are doing. If the actions we are taking are not getting us where we desire to go, then we need to reassess and regroup. What else is possible? How can we redefine what we are doing?
It takes 4 weeks for you to notice a change. It takes 8 weeks for your friends to notice. It takes 12 weeks for the rest of the world to notice a change. It takes 1 day to decide that you are enough.
– Unknown
I wonder how many times our change actually took place, and we stopped working on it on week 3 because we couldn’t see it happening? Maybe you have achieved something new, and then you threw away because you were still looking at yourself through the old filter. You couldn’t see what you had actually accomplished, so you just went back to the same old you?
Don’t wait until you’ve reached your goal to be proud of yourself. Be proud of every step you take toward reaching your goal.
– Unknown
Imagine you have a potters wheel in front of you. You are sculpting a bowl. You look at it and it isn’t what you were trying to make. Do you take the clay and throw it against the wall? Do you blame the clay or the wheel for not producing your work of art the way you wanted it to be? Or do you simply squish it back down and start over? If our bowl is to be molded to what we want, maybe we just look for ways to do it differently. What can we add, or take away? Go faster or slower spinning the wheel? More or less water? Create definitions higher or lower? We have millions of choices to get where we are trying to go. We also have millions of chances and changes to make in getting us there.
Transformation is often more about unlearning, then relearning.
– Richard Rohr
I always think about babies for this. They learn to roll over to change what they can see or touch. Then they learn how to get their legs underneath them so that they can move them and learn to crawl. Then they start using leverage against furniture to get them to stand up on their legs. Then they start walking and from there they start running, climbing and jumping. Each step fed into the next step. They don’t crawl once they have learned to walk. They let go or unlearn the crawling piece as they transform how they get around the room by walking, running, climbing and jumping.
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
– Socrates
In this same way, each new thing we learn essentially replaces a previous truth. At one time I was a roller, then a crawler, then I let those old truths be replaced with the next level of learning. All of those old levels of learning were necessary to get me where I am today. But they are not what is going to get me where I am going tomorrow. When the new door of opportunity for learning and growth opens up, go through the door. Don’t stay a roller or a crawler, stuck in a cramped space that no longer allows any room for new growth. Don’t settle. Shoot for the stars. Any time we find ourselves stuck in a cramped space and not growing, we need to accept responsibility for being there. In some way we are inhibiting our growth and transformation. Then step through the door to growth and transformation. Adjust your sails to catch the wind and fly across the waves.
Everything you want is out there waiting for you to ask. Everything you want also wants you. But you have to take action to get it.
– Jack Canfield
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Reflections Of The Heart Liberate The Soul
Mirror, Mirror on the wall, show me who I really am. Many fairy tales tell of magic mirrors. Mirrors that can tell the future. Mirrors that show you your loved ones. Mirrors that twist everything to mean something different than it really means. And mirrors that reflect back the truth to you. How do you know that the reflection back to you is the truth?
“The more reflective that you are at a soul level, the more of the real you comes into reality” – Sheryl Silbaugh
A fun house mirror with some twisting of reality, changes how you really look. One mirror shows you a reflection of being short and fat. Another mirror reflects back to you the image of a really tall, skinny girl. Because of the shape of the mirror, the reflections are changed and altered from the truth of what you look like in reality.
Mirrors reverse everything. Look at how her hand is touching the mirror. The mirror image touching back to her. It looks like the left hand is touching the left hand. But in reality, it is her left hand touching the reflections right hand. So even mirrors that are true, still change what you see reflected back to you. The reflection back to you is in fact, backwards to reality. It isn’t the real you.
“In a mirror is where we find a reflection of our appearances, but in a heart is where we find a reflection of our soul” – Unknown
Mirrors are obstacles to light. Fun house mirrors distort what you see, creating illusions. What if there were all different kinds of mirrors, each reflecting a different “you” based on what path we took? Shards of reality based on different life decisions. How would you pick which reality you wanted?
Based on a multitude of small decisions, how would you be changed? Wouldn’t it be wonderful if in real life you could be like Alice? Just step through the looking glass to see what would happen if you chose this job or that job? Should you leave your bad situation now, or wait another year?
Commit To Your Dreams!
I invite you to join us on May 2nd for a purposeful gathering. Our intention is to create moments of life-changing conversation on how to make 2020 the year of achievement.
Chances are that what you’re struggling with, others are too. What life questions you have been asking yourself, others are asking themselves too. Get clear on what you want and how to obtain it. If your 2020 dreams and goals are already stalling, get recharged and refocused. Learn how to pivot to success. Join us for a gathering that no one will forget.
“Life is only a reflection of what we allow ourselves to see” – Unknown
The movie “Sliding Doors” is all about the thought of what if you made the train or missed it – how does something so small and simple change or not change your life. I love the concept of how a reflection actually bends back from the surface and allows one to think seriously or ponder what is being shown.
It takes some consciousness and understanding to start seeing who and what you really are. To see beyond the surface reflection, deep into the soul within the body. To understand why you make the choices you do? How much of what happens to you is really within your choices, and not fate or destiny driving you towards some unseen future.
“Time spent in self-reflection is never wasted – it is an intimate date with yourself” – Paul TP Wong
The reflection you see in a mirror, is bent back from the surface. It allows you to examine what you see from different angles. You can bend the metaphorical light of your experiences, to see what is underneath. It serves as a bridge between learning and experience. You can remove the barrier of your feelings, thoughts, emotions from the experience. You then see more of the truth, and less of the story that you tell yourself.
This internal dialogue stripped of the emotional charge, is what enables you to move from victim, past survivor, to a totally new space of thriving. The depth to which you take these reflections, determines the kind of attitude and actions you take moving forward in life.
“To make the right choices in life, you have to get in touch with your soul. to do this, you need to experience solitudes, which most people are afraid of, because in the silence you hear the truth and know the solutions” – Deepak Chopra
Reflection provides an opportunity for you to open your heart and mind to your experiences. To see your wisdom and your foolishness. To see your strengths and weaknesses. It also allows you to delve in the possibilities of looking at those experiences through the viewpoints of others involved.
“Facing you, loving you and accepting you as you are can be painfully challenging, but it’s so necessary” – Dau Voire
Recently my granddaughter got into a bit of drama with one of her friends. They had been out somewhere and my granddaughter borrowed some money from her friend. They didn’t discuss when it would be paid back. My granddaughter didn’t have a way to pay it back, since she didn’t have a job. She did some babysitting, but nothing on a regular basis. So this debt created some friction. Her friend asked her to pay it back, which upset my granddaughter because she didn’t have it. But they didn’t discuss their feelings, they both just pushed it inside.
“Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice” – blog.zerodean
When my granddaughter had a new babysitting job, she paid back the debt. But instead of apologizing for taking so long, she said, “here’s your money, now you can stop bugging me about it.” Of course, her friend was really hurt by those words. So, it escalated into a huge fight. Both girls had a party to the misunderstanding. Neither girl was able to see how their own lack of communication created a mountain out a molehill. Neither so far has made it to the point of realizing they were both in the wrong and owning their own part in the debacle.
“It’s unfair to yourself to justify why you’re holding on to toxicity. There are lessons in letting go and moving on” – Alex Elle
It is times like this that I wish we could hit a replay button, and see how the story that you internalize is not the true story. Both girls think that they we totally right, and the other is wrong. You too hide behind this gate of reality. You see a distorted image of what happened, of yourself. You don’t want to be the victim. You don’t want to be the perpetrator. In most situations in life you are one or the other, and sometimes even both at the same time. So, you create a story and you create drama where there shouldn’t be any.
“Self reflection is a humbling process. It’s essential to find out why you think, say, and do certain things . . . then better yourself” – Sonya Teclai
No one else can unlock that gate for you. It can only be unlocked by you. You can’t open anyone else’s gate either by argument or emotional appeal. I’ve had talked to my granddaughter and so far, she hasn’t been able to open that gate. My granddaughter has a saying when we talk, that I am judging her. And she is both right and wrong at the same time. Anytime you want to fix someone or something, you are in fact judging it or them. You are saying that something is broken or disconnected. So in that sense I am judging her, because I can see what is broken. But I am not judging her as being bad, or unworthy or less than she is.
“If you are still searching for that one person who will change your life, look in the mirror” – Unknown
You do that to yourself all the time. You judge the actions or inactions that you take. You beat yourself up. You should have done a better job. You shouldn’t have forgotten that important thing. What you need to learn is to take the take for reflection. See what is broken or disconnected. Ask what you can do to alter the outcome. What can be altered and connection restored? What is beyond your ability to reconnect? Release the judgement. Accept them as they are, or let them go.
“Be a reflection of what you’d like to receive. If you want love, give love. If you want truth, be truthful. What you give out will always return” – Unknown
Look into the mirror. Dig beneath the surface. Love and accept what you find. Reconnect with your soul, with your life purpose. Get back onto the right path for you. Transform what can be changed and release what can’t.
Commit To Your Dreams!
I invite you to join us on May 2nd for a purposeful gathering. Our intention is to create moments of life-changing conversation on how to make 2020 the year of achievement.
Chances are that what you’re struggling with, others are too. What life questions you have been asking yourself, others are asking themselves too. Get clear on what you want and how to obtain it. If your 2020 dreams and goals are already stalling, get recharged and refocused. Learn how to pivot to success. Join us for a gathering that no one will forget.
Only Those Who Can See The Invisible Can Do The Impossible
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety.
– Abraham Maslow
On “America’s Got Talent”, Mandy Harvey sang an amazing song. She got the gold buzzer. What she demonstrated through her song and her story is resilience. When she was 18 years old, she lost her hearing from a disease. She had been singing since she was four years old. When she lost her hearing, she did what most of us would do and put away her dream as something that would never be able to happen for her. She stopped singing.
Yes, sometimes the odds are really stacked against you, but no that doesn’t mean you’ll fail. The odds of you even being conceived are so close to nothing that no one in their right mind would bet on your being here. But you are. You’ve already proved you can beat the odds. So, do it again.
– Doe Zantamata
Now here she was on stage to sing. What had happened? Why did she decide to try again to be a singer? The song she sang is one that she wrote. In the song she says that she got tired of not living the life she wanted to live. That she was tired of saying no to her dream. That even though the sky was more gray than blue for her, she was going to try and take her place again. To try and live the life she still felt that she was destined to live.
Wanting something is not enough. You must hunger for it. Your motivation must be absolutely compelling in order to overcome the obstacles that will invariably come your way.
– Les Brown
She got the gold buzzer because of the combination of her beautiful voice, her heartfelt song of struggle, and her determination to overcome her perceived limitations caused by her deafness. She was so hungry that she refused to let her dreams be defeated. What Mandy teaches us is so vital. She had the worlds best excuse not to go after her dreams. She can’t hear her own voice. She can’t hear her music. But instead of stopping her forever, she took some time to heal through what had happened and then she did a very important thing. She got curious.
A challenge only becomes an obstacle when you bow to it.
– unknown
She got curious about what did she have that she could use. Standing in her stocking feet, she can feel the music through the floor. She then found that she could trust her voice to be on pitch. She trusted her musicians and translator to let her know how the music sounded, how her voice sounded. She found she could trust her body and voice to support her in her singing. Her past of losing her hearing did not mean the end of her life. It meant learning to live her live in a new way, so that she could still follow her dreams.
Anyone can hide; it’s the easiest thing to do. Standing up, facing the truth, and working through problems, that’s what makes you strong.
– unknown
We all have things in our life that create challenges and obstacles. Some of them are life altering and may seem to close the door to our dreams. We may sit in the dark and bewail what has happened to us. We may have to go through the stages of grief, from anger, betrayal, denial, sorrow and so on. But each day we face a new choice. We can process through those negative emotions and rebuild our life, or stay in the dark ashes of what we thought life was going to be.
When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal. You do not change your decision to get there.
– Zig Ziglar
Like Mandy, we each of us have something inside of us that is greater than any lemon that life can throw at us. Sometimes when we are deep within the struggle of survival we can’t see it. But it is there, patiently waiting for us to get off the floor and back onto our life path. It helps when we can recall other times in our life when we got knocked down. The times when we faced the battle against our negative mind talk. Against the “not good enough” talk. Against the friends and family who told us to give up, that what we wanted was not possible. Against those who wanted to protect us from ourselves, from disappointment and failure. Remember the fears that you faced down. Remember how you discovered that those fears were all an illusion.
Being a Human Being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world.
– unknown
What if . . . the things that we go through, are ours to go through so that we can both experience the wonders of the world and appreciate them? None of us know what we are truly capable of. If we are just handed all of our desires and dreams, would we see them for what they truly are? Would we grow and expand in our lives? I don’t think that any of us would ever believe what it is possible for us to accomplish.
Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.
– Dale Carnegie
If we could sneak a peak at the end of the chapter that we are currently living, we probably wouldn’t accept the truth of what we read. In the “Wizard of Oz”, Glinda the good witch tells Dorothy – “You’ve always had the power my dear, you just had to learn it for yourself”. The same is true for us. We’ve always had the power to live the life that we dream of. The path to that destination is how we learn to accept it, use it, grow it, and live our life into it. We are all capable of far more than we know. We just need to click those ruby red shoes and say it until we believe it. Then pull up the big girl panties and get it done. No excuses.
If you wait to do everything until you’re sure it’s right, you’ll probably never do much of anything.
– Win Borden
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