Tidbits of Wisdom to inspire your unique life journey – Jeanne Loehnis, Songs For Your Spirit, LLC
Today, once again, I woke as a new being, changed from the woman who laid her head on the pillow last evening.
I am changing.
Don’t look at my body for proof (though you may see light emanating from my energy field). No, this change is within, the result of a courageous inward journey.
Old ideas, beliefs and rules are softening or melting away. Continue reading “Metamorphosis”
Never deny anyone the opportunity to be helpful.
~ Jamie Loehnis
This week, I took my scooter to the local thrift shop. I found a rather large item which was perfect for the current creative project. I bought it – knowing that I might need to take the scooter home and trade it out for the car in order to get it to my house.
In the parking lot, a woman asked me, “What is that?” (Yes, it was an odd looking thing!) I told her that I really didn’t know what it was but, rather, how I was planning to use it. Then she watched me attempt to get this thing onto my scooter unsuccessfully. And she said, Continue reading “Circle of Giving”
How do you choose your next steps? Do you make choices based on “what everyone else is doing”? Do you listen to what “they” say? Or, do you step out of the mainstream and listen to the calling of your heart and soul for guidance?
In my early days of writing songs, this lyric spilled out:
Follow My Soul
I’ve traveled in the city and followed other’s steps.
I’ve done each task before me. My life: a success.
I’ve learned well, for I thought all life’s answers were taught.
Now I’m starting over to dream in the clover – I hear new questions again.
The questions that are with me each day and through the night
sometimes send fear straight through me. I know not wrong from right.
Yet I know I must go through this uncertain time
and be with the feeling, as the Unknown’s revealing to me a new way to grow. Continue reading “Pathmaker is a trickster”
My husband is very perceptive. He can sense with pinpoint accuracy when something’s “off” in me. When he does, he often asks:
“What’s wrong?”
Sometimes, the question is helpful and I can identify and share what I’m preoccupied with and which I might label “bad” or “wrong”. But, sometimes, there is nothing “wrong” at all and the question puts me in a defensive place.
One thing I appreciate about Buddhism is the message, “it just is” rather than “it’s good” or “it’s bad”, “it’s right – or it’s wrong”.
With that in mind, he and I talked about his question and came up with this reframe: Continue reading “What’s wrong?”
Perhaps you have heard the phrase:
What you resist, persists.
When we resist life’s challenges, avoid confrontation and take shortcuts, the underlying problem isn’t resolved. Rather, it persists and eventually returns, perhaps disguised a bit differently. Resisting or avoiding keeps us from living into this message: The only way out is through.
During my training as a life coach, we explored resistance since this keeps people from growing into and expressing the life they want to live. This very helpful visual came with the discussion. Continue reading “Manifestation of Resistance”