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Beyond the fresh coat of paint …

There is something about the chaos of painting that invites a deeper cleaning, rearranging, and clearing out! As I put the room back together, careful not to mar the freshly painted walls, I couldn’t help but move some things around and view the space from different perspectives. And before restoring all the knickknacks, I had to open the drawers and the doors and clean and discard and make the hidden areas fresh and lighter as well.

What about our insides, our thoughts, beliefs, ideas and practices?
What needs rearranging?
What needs to be released?

What will lighten our inner load?

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What if …

What if you knew that everything you desire in life was waiting for you to recognize it, claim it, live it?

What if the only path forward was to be here now?

What if this now moment was all that mattered?

What if this moment, this activity, this breath fully experienced was guaranteed to lead you to the greatest version of the grandest vision of your destiny?

What if …

How would you choose to experience “now”?

Check out these lyrics: Each and Every Moment

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Storyizing

Do you storyize?

What?

Storyize! Storyizing is the art of embellishing the facts with your stories and assumptions. When storyizing takes over me, my mind is spinning wildly with what could happen, what I want to be true, what I most fear.

If you, like me, you have become quite adept at storyizing, take a moment to stop. Practice simple observation followed by curiosity:

That’s interesting. I just witnessed “that”. Just “that”. Just what appeared to be a mean glance from a friend:

Friend, are you okay? I saw a strange look on your face.

Just what appeared to be defiant behavior from my child.

Child, you know that isn’t a good thing to do. Help me understand. What were you thinking? Why did you do that?

Rather than embellishing our stories, we can expand the facts.

What might be possible if you stop storyizing?

 

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Perception is Reality

That statement is very powerful. I might re-state it like this:

The world I see is filtered through my thoughts, experiences, awareness, emotions. It can NEVER be the world you see.

How I see, my perception, is reality to me. The challenge I face is in accepting that you see everything (including me) filtered through your lenses, your perception of reality. What you see is not what I see.

The gift here is that what I see, what I am perceiving now, is not the only way to see “it”. I can change my lenses at any time and see differently!

  • Is this situation stressful or an opportunity to let go?
  • Is the child’s behavior disruptive or is it an expression of her becoming who she really is?
  • Is the gift from a dear friend totally insensitive as “she knows I don’t like that” or is it her absolute best at expressing love?

Today, I invite you to carry several sets of eye glasses with you. In any situation, try on multiple lenses.

What other ways can you perceive what is happening now?
What version of reality will you embrace?

 

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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?