This five minute recording is a gift of space, pause and release for you this day. May you know the power inherent in your breath which is available to you in each and every moment.
The Leap
If we wait until we know for certain, we won’t move. There simply are things we can’t know about the future, about the choice we’re pondering, until we leap and find ourselves in it.
What’s more, there are many ways that we don’t know what we don’t know until we take the leap and face it head on.
The really good news is this: we don’t have to leap alone! Support in this lifetime can come from friends, family, colleagues, books, ideas, coaches, classes, faith.
What leap are you called to take?
What support system is in place to help you through the surprises?
Expand the Moment
Today’s thought is simple:
Expand the moment.
Whenever life seems especially challenging, you are experiencing tunnel vision, or you feel trapped in limitation and believe your choices go from bad to worse, expand the moment.
Imagine the current, dark, painful moment, however large or small you choose it to be, as outside of yourself and a real thing. Now, draw an imaginary circle around your “moment”. Let that circle begin to grow and grow. Do you see white space between the dark moment and the edge of the circle? As the circle continues to grow, imagine other aspects of your life filling it.
What is also present “now”?
What will you focus on in your next moment?
Practice Beholding
Today’s thought is an invitation. The next time you find yourself faced with something or someone that upsets you, doesn’t meet your desires, triggers your “I want to fix this” gene, try this:
Practice Beholding
It’s simple. Whatever “it” is, step back far enough to behold it as you would witness a sunset or behold the painting of a great master. Nothing in you would ever try to change the sunset or the painting, true? You would receive it for what it is and allow its beauty to touch you deeply. So again I say, when you are triggered:
Behold the situation – Behold the person
Free of any desire or impulse to change or control, just be with it.
What do you notice IN YOU now?
Simplicity
“If thee needs anything and cannot find it, just come to me
and I’ll tell thee how to get along without it.” Etta May (Quaker)
How much time and energy goes to:
- finding what we can’t live without
- insisting on the”only” way even when it’s not working
- acquiring the next thing that is a must have
What possibilities would open up if we greeted every block, every challenge, with simplicity? Today, try on:
What is the simple solution?
What can I let go of now?
What will I find in “less”?