The Gift of Awareness

Bring the gift of awareness into your day today. Choose a touchstone, a reminder, to keep with you all day long. Perhaps it is a ring on your finger, or clouds, or the act of walking through a doorway. Then, each time you see your touchstone, pause. Invite a message from each of your senses: sight, touch, hearing, taste, smell, intuition.

What is really here now?

Fresh Start

Just a little bit for you today…

Close your eyes. As you take three deep breaths, invite your thoughts to float away. Vision only a clear canvas that awaits the brush stroke of your intuition, your Inner Guide. With the canvas in front you, let your Guide answer the following question:

What desires a fresh start?

The Universe is out to Support You!

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Photo by V Haldeman Photography

“Around the bend, in the unseen,
arising from the very uncertainties that may now seem to taunt you,
there are some amazing surprises awesome twists,
and spellbinding coincidences about to emerge that you can’t even now imagine.”

A Note From the Universe by Mike Dooley

I’m sharing this with you today because the effects of this universal truth have been SO prominent for me recently. If you’ve never thought about this before, take a moment. Have you really planned and foreseen each step in your life journey? Big things, little things, imagine:

  • The parking place that opened up as you rounded the corner, running late…
  • There is a new doctor in town who specializes in the area of medicine that you need now…
  • Of all the people in the world, you were present to meet your mate at that specific time and place – five minutes later and he would have been gone…

There is so much that we don’t control. Continue reading “The Universe is out to Support You!”

What’s really going on?

I ask that of myself … and hope that you’ll do the same.

As you know, I’ve taken quite a break from writing to you. Lately, I’ve been re-reading a few books, including my own, and just today heard this message:

Jeanne, you haven’t blogged lately. I notice that you are resisting. And more, I notice that you haven’t considered blogging to share this truth! What’s that about?

You see, the book:

WhatIsAliveInMeNowFrontCover

speaks VERY clearly to finding our OWN voice, our OWN truth, and daring to live into it. In fact, I wrote it in the spring of 2014 as a journey of my truth throughout that time frame – no more and no less. So, I was reminded today that speaking/blogging my truth with you was enough. Actually, it is “just right”.

Today, that truth is this: I am in a very generative, green, expansive, personal time in my life right now. In the midst of all of this, I am less inclined to write, to tell, to share as I am to experience, to actually LIVE LIFE.  And that is what I’ve been doing. And I haven’t been writing. And I need to let that be okay.

What about you:

What’s really going on?
What is YOUR truth?
What do you WANT to share?
What else?

What is your “counter-cultural intention”?

It takes intention and staying power to live counter-culturally.

I spoke those words to a friend yesterday and they struck a cord in her. I took that as a sign to go deeper for, in that moment, they’d just flown off my tongue.

What did I mean?

For me, counter-cultural describes much of what I create as I live into purpose and passion and a life of service. Much of how I spend my life energy is not what society and the world of marketing, consumption and busyness would suggest. I value inner quiet, meditation, personal integrity, the human spirit. Your counter-cultural is likely different and might be choosing health while surrounded by family or coworkers who don’t.

Here’s the thing: we are all called to change the world – to make the world a better place. This amazing video is a powerful request to consider the children, consider ourselves, and heal the world:

Whatever it is that YOU are called to do to make the world a better place around you, DO IT! Don’t wait for a better time. Don’t wait for someone else to take the first step. Set your intention and DO IT. Do it NOW. Create better at work, at home, in your relationships. When it doesn’t feel good or easy, STAY with your intention.

It takes intention and staying power to live counter-culturally.

And it takes each one of us to follow through on our intention to make the world a better place, to live counter-culturally.

What is your “counter-cultural” intention?
What is your staying power?