Where do you “create from scratch”?

So often we follow a recipe” or “read the book” or “play the music”.  We “do the steps” their way. Today I wonder where you create from scratch. What is it that emerges from inside you when you allow it?

Take a moment and bring to your awareness just what it feels like when you “create from scratch”. Imagine:

Do you feel pride or joy?
Delight?
Confident?
What’s it like to share your gifts?
What energy flows through your body when you are creating?

What would be missing if you refused to “create from scratch”?

Body Knowing

The new year begins. So much of what we read points to visioning and planning and making this “the best year ever”. Perhaps you have been one who creates “resolutions” – or maybe you’ve given up because they never lasted. Regardless of what has been, I want to share with you something I read this morning that may help. From The Intuitive Way by Penney Peirce:

“Since your body registers only the present moment as real, start acting right now as if you already have achieved fill-in-the-blank.”

You may not be new to “act as if” or “fake it till you make it”. I’m not. Yet reading her words which I interpret as:

The body, the emotional, physical sensations that often drive our actions – is perceiving only NOW.

And NOW is merely the manifestation of yesterday’s choices.

If that’s true, then how can we move forward? We need to base today’s actions on tomorrow’s desires. We need to send a message to our subconscious any way we can. We “act as if”. We stop complaining and start affirming. We express gratitude as if we already had experienced our desire. We pause, meditate, and vision fulfillment.

What words and thoughts from yesterday will you release?
What will you affirm today?
What energy will you send to your body today?

Grounded … or not!

What grounds you? What is it in your day-to-day, or in your greater life experience at this time, which provides stability, home base, that place to land when upheaval happens?

Or perhaps, unlike me, you don’t need that tether. You are able to fly freely, go with the flow, flit from here to there endlessly – without losing site of direction, focus, dreams, visions, or goals.

There is no “right or wrong, good or bad” of course. But it is vital that we know our personal needs and honor them. So I ask again:

What grounds you?
What needs to shift so this grounding presence will expand?

The Unexpected

“If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.” Fay Weldon

I am struck by this quote today as I ponder what it would be like to do “non-Christmas” next year. Each holiday season, I shift something up in order to create an experience that feels good to me and those around me. Yet, I have fallen short of doing something so unexpected that magic actually happens which, for me, would be a depression-free, joy-full season. And it might take “non-Christmas”, actually not celebrating, for me to delight in it.

What is your unexpected action?
What would rock your world and reveal the unexpected?

Come Back Into Your Skin

Welcome to December 26. What does that mean to you? Let me try that again. What does this day, this moment, this opportunity mean for you?

It can be too easy during this time of the year to compare, to have expectations, to forget our individuality in the presence of so much tradition, family, and societal messaging. It is easy to think, “I should feel …” or “I should want to do …”. Today, I invite you back into your skin to wonder:

What do I feel?
What is important today?
What possibilities align with my deepest values now?